misc ramblings n' thoughts...
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Tiring day... Got up early for church this morning. Really good sermon; Alfred was speaking about how when God closes one door, we often become so fixated on that closed door and we pound and try to get it open and beg and pry, but we often forget that God has opened another door in our lives. Instead of fretting over that closed door, we should search and look forward to our new open door. Anyways, right after church, went downtown to Center Island with some of the guys, and that was most interesting. We were bringing like three crates of Aberfoyle water for the dragon boat team and that in itself was a challenge. It was so incredibly heavy and we ended up dying. Oh my goodness!!!!! It was incredibly hot and humid so that didn't make it any better either. When we got there, had to pay $20 for parking, which is absolutely insane. The line for the ferry went around the block (literally) and there were scalpers selling $5 ferry tickets for like $15 a piece so you wouldn't have to wait in line. I was tempted to almost just buy like 20 tickets then go back out there and scalp them..=) Also been getting allergies and stuff which is really strange since I've never gotten them in my entire life and it starts acting up this year. I absolutely hate it and it's really bothering me. Anyways, I ended up getting a really good spot in line cause I found this alternate line, so that was sweet. And I was waiting in line, and the guy next to me out of the blue just asks me "Hey, I got an extra ticket. You want it?!" Totally made my afternoon. We ended up chatting and stuff and it turns out he's a graphic designer and stuff, and even offered me a job designing and doing web stuff. Very cool. Ended up chilling and seeing tons of friends at Center Island, which was pretty cool. Came back and took my grandparents out for dinner, which is definately something I don't do enough of. Our family goes over to my grandparent's place and have dinner every Sunday, but I realize that I don't get to chill with them too much. I spend all this time with my family and my friends, yet I don't get to chill with my grandparents that often. Just a few hours a week for a routinized dinner. They're also kind of non-christians (kind of complicated actually) and yea, recently, my brother and I have this strong conviction to really just talk to them about Jesus. We talk to friends, family, peers, people we don't even know about Christ, but how come I can't even talk to my grandparents?! It may be the generation gap or the language barrier (they speak mandarin and understand catonese while I speak catonese and understand mandarin) but I don't think that's the whole reason. I think it's time to step out of my comfort zone again. My church is starting a mandarin service in Sept. so I think I'm going to start going to that. Hope that goes well. Anyways, good day today. Well, decent anyways! But praise God for good days. (Right Jon?) Hope you guys had a good weekend too. Long week of work ahead. *ugh* posted by jamescl | 10:30 PM
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Thanks to my buddies for adding colour to my otherwise dull life.