an eventful sunday :)
July 22, 2002
i actually woke up early this morning!
i set my alarm clock for 7:20 am and i did wake up when it rang. but i just closed my eyes again for a few seconds, which actually turned out to be almost half an hour. i woke up again at 7:50 am or so. and i was like, hey, i can still make it to mel lastman to take the photos! so off i went. :)
everything was still there when i arrived, to no surprise. it was incredible to just walk around and see how many people responded last night. i noticed passerbyers just glancing at what was on the ground. i mean, who wouldn't take a look at it? people literally wrote ALL over mel lastman square - i only thought it'd be a part of it. like seriously, the ENTIRE thing - everywhere was covered. i'm sure the people who had a chance to read it were blessed by the words. i was. :) i took 92 photos! hehe... buck wild.....
worshipping at markham this morning was like........ different.. maybe because john 4 was just last night so i'm like all jacked up for God (ti's the whole emotion thing).... and because ivan lead this morning (which was really awesome)........ man, like why can't it always be like that? it SHOULD be like that. that's what it's all about it. maybe like a few years down the road, markham will be in that kind of contemporary place. the church i desire to be a part of.
i've been kinda wondering about myself and my like 'boldness' meter for Christ. like honestly. i'm kinda shy still. thinking about yesterday, this lady came up to us and was like "when's the band playing?" so i immediately answered "7 o'clock". then she asks "what type of band is it?" and so i hesitated because i wondered how to explain it. and i finally said "worship band" - nice response huh? she didn't really get it because i don't think she was Christian. and she was like "what's that?" then katie comes in and was like it's a Christian music group. i'm so dumb :P i kinda thought she was like a Christian person so that's why i said it. but yeah i dunno. and like even this morning, i was kinda afraid that people would come up to me and ask what i was doing cuz like i was the only one there taking pictures of the chalk drawings. maybe i should spoken to some of them? i have no idea. i'm still the shy person i used to be.
anyhow, i went to sunday school today! it was cool cuz uncle larry's teaching the class again. he's the man. i love his stuff. so yes, i will be returning to sunday school for the duration of his teaching time :) man, maybe that's like where all the learning stuff is at. sunday school! i've been totally missing out!!!!
we had another 24/7 meeting tonight :) ben talked about some interesting things. one of the most intriguing things he talked about was God writing us letters. i'm like huh!? what the heck. but yeah, it was really cool - ben shared one of the letters that God wrote to him. it was really encouraging. he basically said there's a few things we need to do if we want God to write us a letter.
1. ask God to bind up satan - like the time is only between you and God
2. ask God to 'write' you a letter
3. be still - listen - write down what He says :)
this like whole writing a letter business is like basically the whole God talking to us business. like listening to His voice. which is cool because i've been thinking about that a lot this past summer. so yeah, i really think that's such an amazing thing. to let God write a letter to us :) so cool!! and he was talking about just being still and silent before God. and how we need to tune out the distractions out of our lives. i think my greatest distraction is technology. on friday, we had a power failure at the house. and my brother and i were left home without any electricity for some time. let me tell you, i was like "oh no, i can't do anytihng now". i have such a dependence on electricity for using a computer, watching television and whatever. it's actually quite sad if you think about it. so maybe i need to like eliminate these things out of my life more, so i can just hang out and spend more time with Jesus! :) that'd be awesome.
i think i should go to sleep now. i'm quite tired. i don't have to meet jerry tomorrow morning! that means i can catch up on my zzzz's :) so yes, i'll be heading off now! g'nite :)
Posted by Leo Chan at July 22, 2002 12:43 AM
