The_Deep_Thinker

Monday, October 03, 2005

i think it's a record ---> 2 hr 30 min sleep time on friday, 4 hrs sleep time on saturday, and then a whopping 11 hrs of sleep on sunday for a grand total of 17 hrs and 30 mins of sleep over 3 days :D

i guess i'll start off with friday...

- Friday ---> went SWIMMING for the first time in 5 years..that was definitely really cool! i never realized how much I actually liked swimming. It was great though --> swimmng with Blanche and Betty... we did so many laps and by the end, we were all tired... :) what a good work out... After swimming, I returned home and started to study for my midterm that is today (monday)... i studied until it was time to go to ccf... I am always amazed and in awe of God's power... as my msn name suggests, it's been a full 8 months of earnest prayer and now, in the 9th month, God's answers to prayer are pouring out... it's awesome... words cannot describe what i feel now... prayer is so powerful... let me rephrase that, prayer to My Heavenly Father is so powerful... one thing I learned over the past fall retreat was to dream big... if you ask, God will give us bigger visions and dreams, far greater than the human mind can conceive... and when God answers, I know that it is not out of my own doing, but rather it is fully from the Lord.

- Saturday ---> woke up at 6:00 am after sleeping at 3:30 am... :) hehe..got fruit at St. Jacob's early in the morning!! lol... then off to retreat... i think in trying to summarize what happened over the retreat would take away from how God's presence was there.... there are things that are so hard to describe in words after it occurs, especially in the form of a blog... and in trying, it would not justify what actually happened... I will say that the Holy Spirit was dwelling within the the whole group of 30 some odd ccfers and ex-ccfers. I will also say this.... I am waiting in eager expectation at what the Lord is going to do in people's individual hearts, in CCF, on our campus....

- Sunday ---> there was some time alloted on sunday afternoon (30 mins) to personal conviction time... for the first 15 minutes, i just sat outside with me and God and looked over my prayer journal which i had started since August 2, 2004. Through those journal entries, I could reflect upon my spiritual journey since first year... in my prayer journal, I periodically check off prayer requests that have been answered... I took my pen and started to check any answers to pryaer from the beginning that i had not previously marked off... From August 2, 2004 to July 2005, I realized that i had only left about 5% of the prayers not checked off... whoa.... there are pages and pages of prayer requests in there... and i remember each time i write in the journal, each prayer request at the time seems so heavy... (can't really think of the right word here =P).. heavy in the sense that each situation seemed so desperate for God to overtake them... i sit and look back on it now... and DANG... i know that these things can only be accomplished supernaturally by God... that is SOOO cool... after going through my prayer journal, I continued to spend some good quality time with God... *yay* hehe :D i've been missing a bit of that recently... and it is sooo good to just BE with God... newayz... it's awesome when God affirms what He tells us earlier... in my case, He re-affirmed the vision He set for me specifically this term... It's a good feeling... --> knowing that you are exactly where God wants you to be.

posted by ~*~VaNeSsA~*~ -- 1:43 p.m.

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