oooh the sight of jon running with 2 backpacks (his and mine) and my poor daffodil flopping about in his hand while i'm struggling to ride his bike....

TOO FUNNY.

hahahahaaa. i thought i was gonna fall off his bike from laughing :P

praise God for the community He's given me here. loving, genuine sisters who pray for me and wise, protective brothers who speak words of truth and encouragement :) whatever comes next is gonna have some pretty big shoes to fill.

you know when ppl say "that made my day". i think i can say that about a lot of things i did today :D

awesome morning prayer meeting with the second years. karina, shirley, and jeff. campus hifi breakfast with the remnant of prayer meeting ppls.. shirley and jeff + addons! enoch and dren. woot! first time there. so goooood. yummy-ness and big portions! i love when i get to do stuff like that. random trip to breakfast.. no immediate worries about school stuff.. awesome company. get to BUS down instead of driving.. aahh so good.

thenn.. i finally got to visit sonj at her work! after talking about doing it for such a long time. dren and i went there to study. but not before getting approached by 2 very nice, well-mannered mormon guys on the street! they made us miss the bus.. haha but no worries. another one came by quickly. they felt soooo bad haha. the one guy's face turned bright red :P so that was interesting and cool. i have a pretty different view of them now then i did before. it's also cool because i know they've approached other acf ppl (like sonj.. she told me about these same guys so i kinda knew who they were when they approached us today).

after fellowship i went to sonj's place for a bit and guess what i obtained there?! i was thinking recently that it'd be cool to have the bible in AUDIO-version.. so not having to read it but LISTEN to it. and sonj offers me the new testament on mp3s on a disc!!! waaahh! i was so astounded. PTL! i get to LISTEN to the bible.. thanks sonj! and we listened to some of it.. and i must say. it is quite entertaining. different voices.. accents.. background music. such good stuff :D

sooo i've been forced to think about the future recently. booo suckage. haha.. change. moving on. *sigh* thoughts leading to other thoughts. and i found myself sharing last friday at prayer meeting that i wouldn't mind being the wife of a pastor someday :P and that led to the hilariousness and confusion (on my part) of yun ping saying that he wouldn't mind being the husband of a pastor's wife someday! i'm not saying that yp and i are gonna get married. but.. you get what i mean right? i hope you do because i'm not explaining. i guess it was a 'you had to be there' type of moment. and shirley (yip) was the only other person there.. haha.

but i wasn't joking when i shared that with them. it seems like my thoughts about the future are very different from how they were before. and again.. i'm too lazy to explain that. but i think i've expressed it to a lot of ppl already anyways.

today i had a conversation with someone on the bus that i know but hardly know. it seems like it's been a long time since i've had one of those.

i finished Sex God (rob bell's new book) last saturday. one more thing i'll share about it. he talks about humans as highly complex beings and how our souls are infinitely deep. so in the context of a relationship he says..

to pursue being naked, you have to believe that this person is worth getting to know for the rest of your lives. being naked is peeling back the layers, conversation after conversation, experience after experience, year after year. it's rooted in a belief that the soul has infinite depth and you'll never get to the bottom of it.

it boggles my mind.. just how crazy God made us. you can share and share and share your heart out with someone.. but it will be impossible for that person to ever get to the end of you. our souls have infinite depth. i know i've always had trouble opening myself up.. and i think i'm still struggling with that even lately. but having this point brought up makes me think. if i don't share even just a little bit of myself.. this infinite depth is useless. no where to go.. no outlet. and sometimes i let the lie creep into my mind that no one cares anyways.. it's already been said. but why can't i remember that i worship the Creator of the infinite depths of human souls? and He alone is why i do anything.

the annual "mock first day of spring" happened on tuesday. when God taunts us with amazingly beautiful weather and shows us just how much He loves us by allowing us to enjoy it :P a bunch of us sat outside UCC and ate lunch together.

andrea was so cute. she wouldn't stop on her quest for bubbles until she found them. and she did. she conquered. and the rest of us reaped the rewards of her quest too! and jenny with her sweet straw/bubble blower device. crazy innovative 2nd years i tell ya!

i'm pretty sure i just drank a bug. oh gross. i saw a bug in my cup of water last night before i went to bed. but i was too lazy to rinse it out. so i thought to myself.. i'll do it tmrw. but i just took a drink from it without remembering about the bug.. and felt something go down my throat.. other than water. eww.

haven't posted a picture in awhile..

4th years UNITE!

it was so cool to hang out altogether in one group since we never really do that. food + charades is aaalways a good time :D throw in some evil monkeys, chinamen, and animal fights and you've got an even crazier party :P

i was reading the salt and light passage in matthew about being a light of the world, a city on a hill that cannot be hidden. so it made me remember this old song.. i don't even remember what it's called but it's about the city on a hill passage. so i find the cd (conveniently called CITY ON A HILL :D).. pop it in and remember that there's a WHOLE BUNCH of other awesome songs on this cd. wow. i love listening to old music. anyone remember this cd? so goood.

i started reading rob bell's new book called Sex God. the descrip on the cover says exploring the endless connections between sexuality and spirituality. i thought.. meh it's by rob bell. it's gotta be good. and it is indeed very interesting. i love his writing style because as you read it.. it's almost as if he's actually talking to you like in a nooma video. anyways.. i dunno if it's the way i'm reading it but this book seems to be all over the place. it's good stuff tho. i'd like to sum up everything i've read so far but that'd be really hard.

there's this part where he talks about lust and the mind.

lust = slavery

if i want something to the point that i can't conceive of being content without it, then it owns me.

...we're addictive creatures. we try things, we experiment, we explore, and certain things hook us. they get their tentacles in us, and we can't get away from them. what started out as freedom can quickly become slavery. often freedom is seen as the ability to do whatever you want. but freedom isn't being able to have whatever we crave. freedom is going without whatever we crave and being fine with it.

that last part was so interesting to me. a very different perspective of what i normally think freedom is. just knowing that is a little bit freeing.. hm.

i really like nights like tonight :)

i love these carefree days. they're so good because you're not bound or restricted by any kind of schedule. i also love it because i can let my mind wander without feeling guilty (like i do in class or when i'm studying).

i had a dream the other night. (wow i actually remember a dream!) bj novak (ryan from the office) was in my class. and i couldn't copy down what the teacher wrote on the board in time before she erased it. so i asked him to borrow his paper so i could copy it. he was really nice and let me use his paper.

switchfoot concert tonight was *thumbs up*! a lot better than i was anticipating. i almost feel bad for not being more excited for it beforehand. they did learning to breathe which is probably my faaavourite sf song :D ahh it made the concert.

talking to my friend victoria earlier.. she went to the show last night in toronto. a bit of our msn convo made me laugh. out loud.

(1:16 AM) Victoria - Switc:
there were asians next to me last night from windsor
(1:16 AM) Victoria - Switc:
i almost asked if they knew you
(1:16 AM) Victoria - Switc:
but i thought i'd be racist if i did
(1:16 AM) theresa .. this:
HAHAHHAAA!!!
(1:17 AM) theresa .. this:
omg i'm literally lol'ing right now

ahhh i love her :D