lily
10-18-2004, 10:20 PM
It doesn't matter if anyone replies to this, I just want to get stuff out :) I'm so stoked and excited about the things that have been going on, and it's hard for me to keep it inside. So this is more for me because i'm spilling over! :b
Every Monday morning everyone gets together here for a praise/worship gathering at Ohana Court (a covered but open air big auditorium where we have the all-school meetings) and there's a band, a few singers, and hundreds of students... and it's usually fun but today it was exceptionally fun, and great. Have you ever had one of those times when you think to yourself 'Where I am right now, at this very moment, is the coolest, best place anyone could be, in this entire world.' ? (and you just know it) I had one of those today, and I'm sure I wasn't the only one. I don't want to be preachy (I'm just telling this from my heart) but it was awesome... Being with hundreds of Spirit filled people (mostly young people, but not all) who love Jesus and who are passionate, not doing the churchy thing, which as some of you know can be boring if it's not real.
Usually it's a lot of singing, arms in the air, etc, but today the guy leading the band was really getting us to have an exceptionally good time, and I think you'd just have to be there because I don't think my description of it would do much justice. :D ;) But think of it this way... most of you know how fun it is to party? It's kind of like that, but without the 'crutch' of alcohol, and it's actually more fun because the celebrating comes from something genuine, not an artifical high (alcohol or drugs), it is because you are truly happy to be a child of God, and the things He has done in your life, so you thank & praise Him.
Ok, now that you all think I'm a Jesus freak :P, i'll stop that talk... but I still have to tell you about the things that happened. The guy leading the worship band (who was pretty young, probably early 20's) had us do this thing where everyone (and there were hundreds) linked arms at the shoulder, rows of us, and then when the band started playing the song we all just jumped up and down in unison... it sounds corny, but it was too funny and fun although some of us couldn't do it for very long, but I wish some of you could've been there, I guarantee you would've had a blast, even if you weren't a Christian.
That was just one of the things, to sum it up, it was like having a party but in the morning, and it was a blast, but most importantly you can feel God's spirit there, when there are so many people together singing songs of praise.
Also this week is going to be really good, every week we have a different speaker, and each one has been excellent, and I have gotten a lot out of each one, and I feel really lucky (blessed) to be here to learn this, because this is not the type of stuff you can learn in a regular college or at a church even, so what all the people I talked to who had gone through this told me (7 or 8 people I talked to before coming here) was true, it's life-changing, and really, really good.
I'm not saying that everything is a bed of roses, I have some issues myself that need to be worked out and sometimes going through a particularly frustrating thing can be.. well, frustrating. But it's all a part of growing and learning and that takes time, it doesn't happen overnight.
I have more to say, but I really should get off this computer... there's some things I gotta go and do... I just wanted to share stuff with whoever cares to read it. Like I said, it's ok if no one replies, it was more for me.
Oh, I almost forgot. Now we have 2 countries for sure that we are going to (we're going to split into groups), Malaysia and the Phillipines. I don't know yet which country I'll be going to, I kind of would like to go to the Phillipines, but we'll see.
Peace!
In His Love,
cindy
Every Monday morning everyone gets together here for a praise/worship gathering at Ohana Court (a covered but open air big auditorium where we have the all-school meetings) and there's a band, a few singers, and hundreds of students... and it's usually fun but today it was exceptionally fun, and great. Have you ever had one of those times when you think to yourself 'Where I am right now, at this very moment, is the coolest, best place anyone could be, in this entire world.' ? (and you just know it) I had one of those today, and I'm sure I wasn't the only one. I don't want to be preachy (I'm just telling this from my heart) but it was awesome... Being with hundreds of Spirit filled people (mostly young people, but not all) who love Jesus and who are passionate, not doing the churchy thing, which as some of you know can be boring if it's not real.
Usually it's a lot of singing, arms in the air, etc, but today the guy leading the band was really getting us to have an exceptionally good time, and I think you'd just have to be there because I don't think my description of it would do much justice. :D ;) But think of it this way... most of you know how fun it is to party? It's kind of like that, but without the 'crutch' of alcohol, and it's actually more fun because the celebrating comes from something genuine, not an artifical high (alcohol or drugs), it is because you are truly happy to be a child of God, and the things He has done in your life, so you thank & praise Him.
Ok, now that you all think I'm a Jesus freak :P, i'll stop that talk... but I still have to tell you about the things that happened. The guy leading the worship band (who was pretty young, probably early 20's) had us do this thing where everyone (and there were hundreds) linked arms at the shoulder, rows of us, and then when the band started playing the song we all just jumped up and down in unison... it sounds corny, but it was too funny and fun although some of us couldn't do it for very long, but I wish some of you could've been there, I guarantee you would've had a blast, even if you weren't a Christian.
That was just one of the things, to sum it up, it was like having a party but in the morning, and it was a blast, but most importantly you can feel God's spirit there, when there are so many people together singing songs of praise.
Also this week is going to be really good, every week we have a different speaker, and each one has been excellent, and I have gotten a lot out of each one, and I feel really lucky (blessed) to be here to learn this, because this is not the type of stuff you can learn in a regular college or at a church even, so what all the people I talked to who had gone through this told me (7 or 8 people I talked to before coming here) was true, it's life-changing, and really, really good.
I'm not saying that everything is a bed of roses, I have some issues myself that need to be worked out and sometimes going through a particularly frustrating thing can be.. well, frustrating. But it's all a part of growing and learning and that takes time, it doesn't happen overnight.
I have more to say, but I really should get off this computer... there's some things I gotta go and do... I just wanted to share stuff with whoever cares to read it. Like I said, it's ok if no one replies, it was more for me.
Oh, I almost forgot. Now we have 2 countries for sure that we are going to (we're going to split into groups), Malaysia and the Phillipines. I don't know yet which country I'll be going to, I kind of would like to go to the Phillipines, but we'll see.
Peace!
In His Love,
cindy