So yesterday I decided that one of my lifelong goals is to live among the Amish for a period of time. My brother told me I should start an Amish exchange program, like for those Amish who want to go out into the world for a year, that I should switch places with them for a year.
Instead of studying for my Shakespeare midterm, I decided to research about the Amish community.
So this was the ADD filled conversation I had with my roommate Nancy. I guess this is what happens when we're procrastinating for midterms:
Me: I want to live with the Amish for a year.
Nancy: The Amish make me think of the guy on the Quaker oats box.
Me: The Quakers and the Amish aren't the same.
Nancy: I know, but it just makes me think of it.
Silence.
Nancy: I'm looking for the Myers-Briggs personality test online.
Me: I'm an INTJ.
Nancy: Oh, we're like opposites. I'm an ISFJ.
Silence.
Me: They don't evangelize.
Nancy: Who?
Me: The Amish.
Nancy: Oh.
Silence.
Nancy: Now I'm an INFJ. You know, someone pulled my friend's hair.
Me: What?
Nancy: Yeah, someone pulled my friends hair. Some girl who was jealous of her pulled her hair.
Me: That's weird.
Silence.
Me: They say it's hard to become Amish, but it can be done.
Nancy: Oh. You're really serious about this aren't you?
Me: Yeah, I'm looking at apartments nearby.
So I felt that conversation had no continuity. It's like little kids thinking out loud, not really talking to each other.
Monday, October 29, 2007
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
No More Night.
Real Life was amazing tonight! God is so Awesome and Good! I could try to explain how excited/overjoyed/overwhelmed/broken/amazed I am by God's grace and His transforming power and how He opens sinners hearts to Him in amazing ways - through His Word, dreams, and people proclaiming His Gospel and demonstrating His love; how He takes the blinders away, even of the hardest of hearts, even of hearts who hated Him and who hated His people, but alas, I'll just give you the lyrics of the song the Holy Spirit put on Darrell's heart to sing today:
No More Night
A timeless theme, earth and heaven will pass away,It’s not a dream,
God will make all things new that day.
Gone is the curse, from which I stumbled and fell,
Evil is banished to eternal hell.
Chorus:
No more night, no more pain,
No more tears, never crying again;
Praises to the great "I Am"
We will walk in the light of the risen Lamb.
See all around, now the nations bow down to sing;
The only sounds are the praises to Christ, our King;
Slowly, the names from the book are read;I know the King,
there is no need to dread.
Bridge:Look! Over there, it’s a mansion prepared for me,
Where I can live with my Savior, eternally!
We will walk in the light of the risen Lamb.
"And there shall be no more curse, but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it, and His servants shall serve Him. They shall see His face, and His name shall be on their foreheads. There shall be no night there: They need no lamp nor light of the sun, for the Lord God gives them light. And they shall reign forever and ever...And the Spirit and the bridge say, "Come!" And let him who hears say, "Come!" And let him who thirsts come. Whoever desires, let him take the water of life freely...He who testifies to these things says, "Surely I am coming quickly." Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus!"
Revelation 22: 3-5,17,20
Praise God for another brother added to the family! Let's have a party. Like the angels.
i love feeling excitement and joy again, especially after feeling dry for awhile. Praise God for His grace!
May we constantly live in faith of future grace.
Let's continue to pray for those affected by the fires.
No More Night
A timeless theme, earth and heaven will pass away,It’s not a dream,
God will make all things new that day.
Gone is the curse, from which I stumbled and fell,
Evil is banished to eternal hell.
Chorus:
No more night, no more pain,
No more tears, never crying again;
Praises to the great "I Am"
We will walk in the light of the risen Lamb.
See all around, now the nations bow down to sing;
The only sounds are the praises to Christ, our King;
Slowly, the names from the book are read;I know the King,
there is no need to dread.
Bridge:Look! Over there, it’s a mansion prepared for me,
Where I can live with my Savior, eternally!
We will walk in the light of the risen Lamb.
"And there shall be no more curse, but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it, and His servants shall serve Him. They shall see His face, and His name shall be on their foreheads. There shall be no night there: They need no lamp nor light of the sun, for the Lord God gives them light. And they shall reign forever and ever...And the Spirit and the bridge say, "Come!" And let him who hears say, "Come!" And let him who thirsts come. Whoever desires, let him take the water of life freely...He who testifies to these things says, "Surely I am coming quickly." Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus!"
Revelation 22: 3-5,17,20
Praise God for another brother added to the family! Let's have a party. Like the angels.
i love feeling excitement and joy again, especially after feeling dry for awhile. Praise God for His grace!
May we constantly live in faith of future grace.
Let's continue to pray for those affected by the fires.
Monday, October 15, 2007
Writing Creatively for the Glory of God.
So I'm realizing that I need to bathe my creative writing in prayer. I have a tendency to write in a melancholic humour when I write creatively, and it's so easy to fall into self-pity and depression when I allow my thoughts to wander into myself which are highly prideful, instead of preaching the Word of God to myself. So I ask for prayer from whoever reads this as I write for my creative writing class - that it would be glorifying to God, and not self-focused.
"And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him. "
~Colossians 3:17
"And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him. "
~Colossians 3:17
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)