Blessing Moment…
Okay, I REALLY am going to be better about posting =) I used to blog a lot back when xanga was popular and I liked looking back at previous entires I made.
Before we broke fast together as an area we went around and shared a memory of when we were blessed during our time here on campus. We were originally supposed to share “where we are at as we begin this semester”, but I’m glad pjung changed it. It was really good for me to think back on a time when God blessed me and so great to hear other people’s moments as well.
There have been many of blessing moments for me but the two that stuck out most to me were from my sophomore year. I only shared one tonight but I’ll put both here =)
The first time I went to OIL I was struggling a lot with something (or someone) I felt like God was asking me to give up (and I didn’t want to do it!) . I already was hesitant to go because Joshua Harris was speaking and since he wrote the book “I Kissed Dating Goodbye” and I was scared to listen to him haha. Throughout the whole conference, my guard was whenever Joshua Harris spoke (although he mostly talked about dating the church). Dr. Charles Zimmerman is actually the one who got through to me even though I tried so hard the whole conference to not be convicted to give it up to God. If I close my eyes I can still see the exact moment. I was sitting center left towards the back. Dr. Zimmerman is really close to the front of the stage and leaning sideways on the podium. He holds out his hand as he tells us that God wants to give us so many great blessings and gifts but because we are holding on to something else in this world our hands are not free to receive from God. We need to let go in order to receive them. And right after he said that, I KNEW I had to let go! As a result of obeying God and giving it up to Him, that led to the memory I shared tonight =)
My sophomore year sg started out really broke. No one went to bible study (including me!) first semester. Second semester, my leader invited our sg to pray with him at Wednesday night prayer meetings. That semester was the first semester I ever went to a prayer meeting. I think I went to one every day but Saturday haha. Usually it was only my leader and me at wed pm. We would pray for every member in depth and share. At our final sharing small group we had a bbq in the park that lasted until after dark and almost all the members came out. It was personally SO blessing for me to hear all of them share because I could see how God had been working in our small group that semester and how the prayers we had stored up every wed were overflowing into their lives. It was the first time that I experienced the power of prayer and seeing how God really uses the prayers that I pray!
here’s some pictures from that final sharing sg! =)
I can’t believe I’m already a 6th year. I have to say that as it is my first year in apartments, I really miss living in the dorms!
Quick Rant: I was excited that they were creating a tv series based on gymnastics, but was also kinda iffy because I figured it would most likely do a poor job in meeting my expectations. And I was right. Having trained seriously as a gymnast for awhile, I got really mad while watching the pilot episode! I can understand that they would show a lot of drama since it IS a tv series and that is what people love, but at least let the skill level be relatively close to what Olympic gymnasts are doing! Maybe the target audience is not high level gymnasts but they must know that anyone who was or is a gymnast would be interested. What makes me sad is that it lets the audience think that this what a gymnasts life is all about – drama – when really it is about hardwork and dedication. Sigh. But it’s TV. And since it is gymnastics, I am kinda hooked! haha