the reflective life...

July 24, 2002

it was the 22nd on monday.

that's the day when licks has it's special day for a 22 cent item. this month was the homeburger! i didn't expect there to be that many people, but let me tell you! there were tons of people lining up for them. we waited a good while. it was obvious that some of the staff were getting tired - i mean who wouldn't? there were like TONS of people waiting for these 22 cent homeburgers!

but yeah, while i was waiting in line with jon and jer, i saw this one employee. and boy, she looked so tired, like she was just going to fall over or something. and i really felt for her. like all i knew, was that she needed some encouragement, maybe from a fellow employee or someone in the line. and i doubt someone in the line would encourage her. i was wondering if i should say something, but it would have been so awkward. you know? so i just prayed for her, that God would encourage her somehow. i was surprised that i noticed her feeling like that. maybe God's SLOWLY showing me the needs of others before mine? of course i'm no where close ot that, but slowly!!

i had a dental appointment this morning and i decided to get a new book cuz screwtape just isn't working out for me. the book i'm reading instead is called "the reflective life". it's PRETTY cool. like i've only read a bit of it, but yeah. it's got some neat stuff in there. i think one of the most profound, but simple things it said was just basically how each and every single day is a gift from God. and because it's a gift, we should be looking for something that makes it a gift - like God makes it holy/special and all that and like we miss out on it all the time because we're moving too fast. we need to slow down, and even stop to take notice of what God is doing. and it also talked about how sacred people are. another interesting thing was a quote saying that the people really close to God, can learn things from the 'ordinary, the everyday' events that happen in life. and i was thinking about that, and like that's been happening with me and jer a BIT. so pretty neat!

we had men's group tonight! jer brought up an interesting thought. it's about Jesus' death. and it basically amounted to this. why did Jesus only die for 3 days? why didn't He die for more days than that? and a question that came from that, is it 'fair' that He only stayed there for 3 days? cuz He knew He'd be brought back to life 3 days after He died. jer's answer to it was basically that there's no concept of time when you die, so it didn't really matter how long He was dead for. then jer was like saying, where did Jesus go when He died? did He go to hell? or just like no where? i have no clue, but i doubt it's hell. that'd be so messed up. but yeah, just talking about that really made me realize how LITTLE i know!

tonight we talked about elijah going to heaven (from 2 kings 2). i think the major point for me was just the fact that we need to be wary of the image we project to others and how people perceive us. basically echoing antioch - how do we want to be known? but not only that, we should be living a life such that people want to be like us - but not just like us, like they're wanting to be like DOUBLE us - like elisha wanting a double portion of elijah's spirit kind of thing. so yeah, it's like we totally need to be careful of what we say, what we do and all that good stuff. i think i'll be thinking about that some more.

anyhow, i HOPE i can stick with reading this book. it's really interesting, but yeah me and my like non-reading book habit always seems to win whenever i try to start reading a book! aiya. well i have a deadline now, august 15th. or else it's all over :P hahah... i have to treat like the men's group to dinner or something if i don't. so that's QUITE the motivation :)

that's it for tonight! g'nite :)

Posted by Leo Chan at July 24, 2002 1:13 AM