Getting back on track... (part 1)

I'll start this off by apologizing for not posting recently. It's been a strange series of weeks, including spring break, a broken computer, and an ultimate frisbee tournament.

So, with that out of the way, what has God been doing in my life? Answer: A whole lot! I'll start out with a few weeks ago during spring break. During that time, God really revealed to me the importance/uniqueness of college campuses. College is the only place where people from all over the world come together for a 'relatively' short amount of time (also during the 'formative years'), and go back out into the world. I felt like God was saying that the College of William and Mary will not be just a lamp shining into the darkness, but a torch shining from the top of a mountain- drawing people near, and sending lights into the world. Here is where I think I might've started to wander off-track a bit.

Spring is coming

While there's still snow on the ground here, supposedly the weather will warm up soon (if the science of meteorology can be trusted at all). Super excited about that, mainly because I really want to play ultimate frisbee again. More importantly though, Easter comes with the season of spring.

Today, the pastor of the church I go to spoke about John 2:1-11. This passage is about the first miracle Jesus did at the wedding at Cana. The pastor talked about how using the water jars (specifically designated for Jewish rites of purification) was not so much symbolic of forgiveness, but of sanctification. As this was the first Sunday of the month, we also partook in communion. Because of this, I was thinking about the relationship between this 'holy wine' that was Jesus' first miracle, and the wine that Jesus and his disciples drank at the Last Supper.

Thanks!

Thanks so much for all the support! I appreciate it a lot. I honestly wasn't expecting that much support. It's really great to see that people are enjoying this. I'm trying some new stuff for the end of the post in order to try to motivate myself to post regularly. Let me know by comment, or message, or email, or smoke signal if you have any suggestions for what I should, or shouldn't put in my blog and I'll consider it!

Today, it's a more 'controversial' topic. Or at least, I think it is. So, if anyone has a quality rebuttal, I am more than open to hearing it. I am more than capable at changing my mind. Anyways, today (Sunday) a lady gave a sermon from the perspective of temptation. She talked about how sometimes we aren't always tempted to do the wrong thing, but to do the seemingly right thing. Her basis for this

College!

Alright, I'll be honest, I just wanted to put this post here to transition from my updates to another purpose. If you're not interested in the boring minutia of college life (really nothing that interesting), just hop down to the second-to-last paragraph. I know that I won't be the first/best 'blogger' (I don't really consider myself a blogger. Though I suppose that I completely fit the definition.) to post about theological ponderings or whatnot, but I'd like to put some of the amazing things that God reveals to me somewhere before I forget. So I guess you could call it an open-book journal. Or practice writing on things that I'm interested in. Or a brain-exercise. Or- well I think you get the point. It's more for me, but if other people can benefit from it or enjoy it also, then all the better!

Anyways, college is interesting. I'm definitely glad that I took a year off, but because I joined in the

SBFM update

I started writing this a few weeks after I got back from SBFM, and now I've decided to return to finish it. Soooo, without further ado, here comes my long-winded update. I sincerely hope that you enjoy it!

First of all, I'd like to start this by thanking all the people who supported me along this trip, whether it was through prayer or through financial means. I am incredibly thankful that I was blessed to be able to go on this trip and get my life changed even further. Second, I want to apologize for not giving any updates during my trip. In my defense, we had a lot of work, and the time went really fast. Still, there was probably enough down time to work on a few updates.

I'm going to try to keep this short, but knowing me, that probably won't happen. Anyways, these past few months have been incredible. So, without further adieu, let's begin. (p.s. if you are not caught up with the small details, check out my previous post)

Our SBFM school!

What's my summer been like? (part 2)

BAM! Here's part 2, coming right at you. So, this one goes over what's been going on during the past four weeks (I think, maybe more) for me. So right after the NOAH camp (see part 1 if you don't know), I went on a fishing trip. Seriously, about a day after we came back, I was invited to go on the trip, and the next day we were leaving. This wasn't some local, simple fishing trip. No, this was serious business... for fun. If that makes sense at all. About seven of us traveled in a van from Long Island to Virginia Beach. When we first went fishing, I realized that I had completely forgotten how to fish. The last time I went fishing was... many, many years ago, in a galaxy far, far away (I actually have been fishing before, but I don't remember how long ago that was). During this time, however, I came to really enjoy fishing. The fish usually feed a little in the late evenings into the night, and in the early morning. So, there were a few nights during this week-long adventure that we stayed up all

What's my summer been like? (part 1)

So, it's been awhile since I've last posted. Feels weird. When we last left off, I had basically just finished DTS, and was volunteering at a YWAM base in NYC. Well, I'm still here. At first, not a whole lot was happening, but then NOAH happened. NOAH is an acronym that stands for Network of Anointed Households. It's a program that basically tries to bring families that are involved in ministry together. It has a few different events, but the big one is the NOAH camp.

NOAH camp is a one-week camp for missionary's children, and pastor's children. The grade range is from 3rd grade, all the way to 12th grade. Each person will be put into two groups: a flock group, and a family group. A flock group is a 'horizontal' age group, so all the people will be in the same grade range, and same gender. This group will sleep together, eat breakfast and lunch together, and, in the older kids case, have