This weekend, including monday because we didnt have school, was awesomely fun for the most part. I didn't have any homework that I could do so sat. was semi slow. I went out with Ali to get some summer job applications and hung out with Kathryn, Jordan, Rachel, and someone new..Stephen. We played nerts and had green been casserole, which was delicious!
Sunday, I went to the covenant church with a large group of friends and after the service we were blessed with a free meal! The "sermon" itself wasn't the most exciting and I(along with everyone else I was sitting with) didnt agree with everything that was said. Rachel, on my right, leaned over during the service and said, "where does it say that in the Bible?" I was thinking the same thing! Then a couple minutes later, Molly Bea, on my left, leaned over and made some comments around not agreeing with what he was saying. After the service we all started talking about how we were going to do some research when we got home on the subject, infant baptism. I still haven't found any scripture saying that we should baptize our infants. But I also think that infant baptism isn't something to argue over. But talking about baptism got me really excited to get baptized in the spring! :)
On with Sunday. After we got back from church, Kathryn, Camille, and I went down to the laundry room to do some laundry. What came from this "adventure"? Clean clothes and a 2 hour worship jam session! :) We sang and played guitar as people walked in and out of the laundry room. Super fun! Later on in the day I went to leadership meeting for InterVarsity. I was very excited to see Kathryn and Mel at the meeting. The topic we talked about was what the outreach week was going be themed around for this semester. The decision was unanimous. The theme for this semester is going to be around depression and lonliness. It was exciting and joyous to see other students getting passionate about what we could do this semester! I was slightly saddened at the same time to see leaders sitting in the room with blank stares on their faces...as if they couldnt hear what we were talking about. BUT! God is going to do something huge this semester! He has already begun His wonderous works! After the leadership meeting, Mel, Kathryn and I went out to get two 5$ pizzas for our small movie party we were about to have. Jordan, Matt, Sami, Kathryn, Mel and I all packed into Sami and I's dorm room and watch Aladdin together on a tiny t.v. :) Once again, super fun!
On Monday I went sledding with some awesome people! Even though it was the least amount of people that have come to this event in the past three years I would claim it to be the most fun! I didnt bring my camera, so I was actually able to fully participate in the fun. After sledding was done I went to cantabria with Kathryn and then came back to spontaneously cook french toast for 12 hungry friends! :) which was fun as well. I had to quite cooking early to help phone to raise money for BreakAway scholarships. The phoning didnt go as we were hoping it to, BUT one person did say that they were going to donate, so that is most definitely a plus! And it was good to get experience for the possible future of having to do A LOT of phoning to raise support for myself and the campus. :) After all that was over I hung out with Kathryn and Camille until Kayla called to invite me to go to walmart with her. The chat I had with her was hard, but good. God is good!
Today...has been.
It sucks to get hurt. I sat waiting. At first I was excited, but then after an hour that excitement slowly disappeared and turned to sadness. I had been forgotten about. About 2 hours before this I was walking back from my class and felt "down". I knew that this feeling had come from the lack of time spent with My Father. As I was figuring out if my thought of being forgotten was correct, the pain inside grew. I had once again been let down by a friend. But this time I didn't want to try and find another friend to make me feel better, I wanted and longed for the Only One who is there for me all of the time. I had immediately thought of Isaiah 49:15-16:
"Can a mother forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion on the child she has borne? Though she may forget, I will not forget you! See, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are ever before me."
I went to my room and the Holy Spirit comforted me as I sat and cried. At the same time I was feeling the sadness, I felt horrible for the fact that this(being forgotten about) is what it had to take in order for me to spend time with the Holy God who is Jealous for me! I do very much forgive my friend! And I love her very much! And I know that Im forgiven for not spending time with My God. As Im writing this post this song came on :) One Thing Remains! So totally fits!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6g4HXXi2R4
As I waited for 8 o'clock to roll around, to lead small group, Kathryn stopped by and it made me smile. Cheered me up. The time came to go downstairs for the Bible study. And I waited. And waited some more.(guess today was the day for me to wait...) No one came. I text some people and the one person that said they were coming decided to go to an auction that the school was putting on, and others didnt reply.
I felt myself becoming discouraged. But I wasn't about to let satan in the tiny crack that there was, so I decided to go around oak hall and pray, maybe even meet some new people. Well...I made around one wing and then decided to chill in the lobby area and continue praying. I didnt meet anyone new, but it was still quite nice to spend sometime alone with God.
A little after 9, Kathryn had come back from visiting another friend and we continued to hang out. We went to the C3 to get some food and I ended up getting some cookies! :) delish! Kathryn and I sat in the kitchen and waited for the cookies to bake. We were going to play cards, but Kathryn thought of something better to do :) We took turns reading Psalm 119 and 39( I highly suggest taking time reading and meditating on them!) The first batch was done and we each had a cookie...soooo tastey! While the other batch was baking, I asked Kathryn if she wanted to go around the floors and give the others away, and she replied with excitement. So that is what we did for the next 30/40 min. We met some new people and chatted with our brothers on 4A. This definitely topped the night off well!
"The LORD himself goes before you and will be with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged." ~Deuteronomy 31:8
No comments:
Post a Comment