Turtles

We are like turtles slowly swimming in the sea. We go to places where we are stuck. We flap our arms, but we don't go anywhere. But if we just go back into our shells, God will come and give it a kick, and when we land, we will find our Narnia.

unplug yourself

This is what my teacher told us today during studio class, and I thought it was interesting. He said as a musician, we need to unplug ourselves from all the technology and the life worries, so that we could focus on the music. Sometimes when we are playing, we don't seem to go anywhere because we are moving our fingers but thinking about different things in our mind.

This very much applies to what I need to do with my relationship with God. I can go through the lip motion, and the doing. But I get distracted by what I need to do next that I cannot concentrate. Sometimes I don't even remember the prayers that I prayed a moment ago. Here is me, with many plugs attached to me, and they are all attached to different things from different direction, I want to move forward to God, but I am just so stuck that I cannot go anywhere. Yes, I need to unplug myself and focus on God. Get rid of all my plugs hanging on my tail and plug into God. That's what I need to do.

God can take a simple prayer a long way! and it burns...

Today in the Blue Apple, there was a lot of people attending Bursley Game Night. The two groups sent over were greatly out numbered. At first I was hoping to see some people from frizbee yesterday at the reflection pool, but very few came out. The rest of the people are all strangers. I was dissapointed because I wanted to build deeper relationship with some of them, and I was thinking: how can I do that when they don't even show up? we started playing games with some people, and as more and more people came in, the Blapple because really loud and crowded. My dissapointment became bigger, I prayed to God :"God I am not coming up here to just play some board games with these freshmen, and if this is the only purpose, I'd rather go down and bring people to the movie night. And if this room-full of people is who your heart is after, then don't let this night go by like this. Show me you are here."

After that, for about 3 hours, God was just moving like crzay. Dan and I shared the gospel with a Thai Buddhist, and he was really touched by it and wanted to bring his devout-buddhist mom to new encounter. He said that he went to an international school in Thai and it is Catholic run, but no one told him the Good News. I felt the spirit moving in him. More over, in the middle of sharing the gospel, this other guy jumped into the discussion while playing monopoly, and was going in between the game and the conversation. After the Thai person left, Dan and I were able to have a great conversation with him who was born in a Christian family but doesn't understand how Jesus is both human and God, and this whole concept of trinity. What's crazy is that he is really curious about what the truth is and really passionate about finding out the truth, that he is willing to push back the date of going home to celebrate his brother's birthday so that he could make it to New Encouter. We all decided we are gonna learn more about the concept of the trinity together.

God is truely there tonight, and he moves in directions that I cannot imagin. Even I was a little dissapointed starting off, I was sooo privileged and blessed coming out. All the glory is His, and I'm speechless about how a simple prayer (more like a complaint) could be brought so far. He is crazy and alive!!!! He doens't need my plans and visions. All he needs is a simple act of obedience that when opportunity comes, Jean, you take it. God is soooo good and there are gonna be greater things to come!

1 Sam 30

So David was sent back to the land that the king of Philistine assigned to him, but he found out that the Amalekites had taken captive their women and children, but have not harmed any. the soldiers were in great distress, and they talked about stoning David.

David found strength from God. and got direction from God that he should pursue the Amalekites and take back his and his men's familes. On the way to chase the enemies, 200/600 ditched David, because they were too tired. They stayed with the supplies. When David found an Egyptian on the way, he still gave him food to eat--raisin cake and drink. The raisin cake is probably nothing compare to what they could have had, but they lacked women to cook for them, David still generously gave to the Egyptian whose anscestor tortured David's. The Egyptian led them to concuring the Amalekites and saving their family.

while the 400/600 refused to share with the 200, David rebuked them and told them to share, because they are not to decide for what God had given to them. The people in the "back stage" with the supplies are just as equal as the ones fighting in the front.

This is the man who chased after God's own heart.