V - the story of: Blessings
Monday, November 20, 2006

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Genesis 32:32 - Jacob wrestles with an angel for a very long time. something like 15 hours. God dislocates Jacobs hip, and he must've been in a lot of pain. what is prominent in this story, is that Jacob was materialistic and made other things his idols, but eventually came back to God. he wrestles with this angel and didn't let go for that long period of time, until God would bless him. the focus is Jacob's perserverence - that's what i learnt at essentials.

the past few weeks have been a struggle (surprise surprise!), because the workload was just too much. i found out recently that on my course, the workload for 1sts years is the equivalent of 2nd year work for any other course. joy...i've had to hand in an essay recently, and now i've got 2 presentations to prepare for in the next couple of weeks. woopdeedoo.

God is good. all the time. he gives us blessings in so many ways. these hard couple of weeks really forced me to get stuck into some books and i'm really glad i did. i don't want to quit the course yet, because the material i've come across is really engaging and fascinating - it's the stuff everyone finds interesting. personal distance and social norms, eye contact and approx. max time to sustain before it gets uncomfortable, questionnaire reliability; you see where i'm coming from? i'm enjoying myself.

there was a point where my football was being jeopardised for church...or rather, the other way around. i led worship in church a few weeks ago, but my chinese team (eagles) had a tournament that same day. i had to pull out on the eagles a few days before, although i was really tempted to sack worship lol. for a time, i thought they were all really angry with me. ah well, am glad i didn't go, the worship was a good experience, and recently, the eagles contacted me again. they're not angry. yay.

my bro, tomps, studying at imperial, is a real blessing. talking to him, we can just let down all our pretences and stop our attitudes and really share how stupid we have been to God. am glad i met tomps. he's a real encourager.

i guess that's the update for now. the youth group worship team is really good, although the dedication of some of the team isn't as good as others. gonna have to whip some butts into shape. what am i supposed to get suki and LC? hm...being busy is fun.

uni. it'll either make or break you.

V

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