My brother just recently moved to New York, so since I couldn’t go home for thanksgiving I decided to come visit him for the weekend. The most family I’ll get for another month before I head back to Hong Kong for Christmas! I’m totally excited to see home again.

I watched a musical tonight, it’s called “The Fantasticks.” It’s the longest running musical in broadway, a few friends and I stood in line for an hour and a half to get discounted tickets and even then they were quite pricy. But I didn’t want to line up for so long and not end up buying tickets! Anyhow I had no idea what to expect cause I’ve never heard of it before.

The show was in quite a small theater, and we soon realized it was a cast of eight, small cast. Despite feeling like we weren’t in the most popular environment, I really enjoyed the musical. Perhaps I haven’t seen a musical in a while and thats why I enjoyed it but the atmosphere was great. The actors did a good job keeping the audience captive, they were very lively. This musical is about two teenage kids whose fathers put a wall between their houses so they won’t see each other. But of course with teenage kids, when you say no to them, they’ll do the exact opposite.

Therefore, they fell in love and the thrill of having to see each other in secret was what kept them going. When the wall was broken down and they were seeing each other in the public eyes, in the “sun light” as they might call it, everything was different. They had arguments and eventually led to the boy going out to see the world, and the girl semi experiencing the world. Before I spoil the plot, I might’ve already but they both realize that the world out there is not all that exciting.

Anyhow, towards the end of the musical, I realized it was quite brilliant. I really enjoyed the idea of proving that teenagers would do the opposite of what you have said “no” to, and when we are not confined to that space or rule anymore, the real world is out there and it’s ugly. It’s not as magical as one may seem, and problems come as we learn more about ourselves, each other, and the world around us.

One of my favorite quotes from tonight is…

El Gallo: There is a curious paradox that no one can explain: who understands the secrets of the reaping of the grain? Who understands why spring is born out of winter’s laboring pain, or why we all must die a bit before we grow again?

Besides the musical, we went to a Turkish restaurant tonight and had really good Turkish food. I like to believe because I had two friends who are from Turkey, therefore, we were able to order a bottle of wine without getting checked. Ate too much today already…… more food tomorrow! Did Americans invent this holiday so they can have an excuse to eat as much as they want?

Ok. I just tried the last hour to find a way to directly import the podcast file onto this post but that had failed so I am just going to add the link.

http://livingloud.podomatic.com/

Check it out!

It’s our first podcast. We are currently at the Emerson Good News Fellowship retreat for the weekend and really enjoying ourselves. Spending quality time with each other as well as with God. We talked all weekend about how we can glorify God in what we do.

I have a feeling this will be a good week. Busy these next two days but I have no classes Wednesday or Thursday. Friday, heading to the Rice Lodge for the Emerson Good News Fellowship retreat. I am stoked to spend time with God away from the hectic college life, and to spend time with friends worshiping, hanging out, and having fellowship with one another.

Lord, I give you my heart. I give you my soul. I live for you alone.

The last few weeks at Reunion, we’ve been doing a study of the book of Romans. And not only in church, but also outside of church, God has been placing scriptures of the Book of Romans in front of me. I’ve never read the whole book of Romans, at least I don’t remember reading all of it. Through church and other activities, I’ve gotten to know quite a few scriptures. Last night, I couldn’t go to bed and was laying in bed contemplating life, or just being lazy. Anyhow, I decided to get out my bible and read the book of Romans from the beginning to end.

(I never got to the end, cause I decided I should try and sleep again considering I was only going to get about three hours of sleep before class, and my midterm.)

Reading the book of Romans makes me cringe. In a good way. I feel as though it clearly shows the two sides of God. His wrath and judgment against mankind and what we have created, but also His overflowing grace and faithfulness to us. There are so many important scriptures I can quote but what stood out to me was Romans 5:12-21. The whole passage refers to “death through adam, and life through Christ.”

“For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous.” Romans 5:17

Everyone, everyone. fell into the life of death and sins.
But not everyone have chosen to receive the life God has given us.

Hmm… just a concept that blows my mind.

It’s been a very good evening. I’ve had this window opened for the last two hours and haven’t written anything. I’m definitely struggling with what to write and where to start. I’ve had a very “mediocre” week, I can’t pinpoint what exactly it is that has been dragging me down but just in general, I haven’t been in the best mood.

So basically, it’s 2:15 AM. I started attempting to write this entry since 11PM.

I failed to write an entry because I was having conversations with friends about God.

I don’t think it gets better than that!

 

I’ll write again soon.

Helloo! So, I really should be heading to be right now but I thought it is about time I update everyone on my life again. It’s been a busy week with homework and studies, but it’s also been good. I’m really liking my classes for the most part and I’m learning lots. Call me a nerd, but I’m really enjoying being back in school- despite all the work it involves.

I went to New Hampshire last weekend with Real Life Boston, the Campus crusade christian fellowship here in Boston. It was a great time away from the city, in the forrest (literally.. i got last on my way back to the cabin quite a few times at night!), in the peacefulness where everywhere I looked I was praising God’s creation. I was able to meet new friends from all over Boston, connect with them and have fellowship. It was my first time out of Boston since I’ve been here, so that was quite nice!

How am I adjusting may you ask? Better. It’s not perfect, but things are slowly getting better. It really takes time. Though the retreat was nice, I left NH a bit confused as to what God wants me to do, why He put me here and why He is putting me through everything He’s putting me through. We learned about living God’s abundant life. in ALL aspects of our life. I can honestly say, I have failed and being humans, we will continue to fail to live God’s full abundant life due to our sins. But it’s good to have a reminder once in a while and reflect on our lives.

I’ve got too much in my mind at the moment to articulate everything I want to say, so I’ll leave that for that next update that will hopefully be this coming long weekend! Thanks for keeping up with my writings.