Weekly Update

My intentional exercise record during the last two weeks:

One hour of Pool wrestling

One hour of Ground wrestling

Five+ 10-25 minute segments of Running

Four+ half hour segments of Basketball

A half hour of Football

One and a half hours of Ultimate Frisbee

Something I learned this week is that the door is open. I also learned a lot about trust. For more details, see my full blog at http://thesafingzone.blogspot.com.

Weekly News Report

Something I learned this week… Hmm...

This week I think I learned a little about the Holy Spirit. Something related to it, at least.

I am a God-fearing, Christ-following, Jesus-honoring Christian. Yet, I have never been filled with the Holy Spirit as Paul describes it. That’s not to say that the Spirit has not and is not working in my life in some way, it’s that I’m not sure that it’s as easy to recognize the presence of the Spirit in my life because there isn’t the evidence which Paul mentions (speaking in tongues, prophesying, etc.). But I learned that I am not the only one. There are many other hardcore Christians who lack the aforementioned evidence of the Holy Spirit in their life. There have been times in the past when I questioned how close to God I really was because I felt “Spirit-less.” Although I knew I couldn’t be the only Christian like this, I’d never had another Christian, who had the undeniable evidence of good fruits coming out of their life, confess that they had never been Spirit-filled according to Paul’s writings. Though I have moved beyond measuring my faith by this standard, it is still somewhat of a comfort to be informed by another Christian that I am not the only one like this.

The Power of Voodoo. Who do? You do!

What is one thing I have learned this week?

This week I learned how to make little men out of string. With the help of my closest human friend, a short, army survival bracelet turned into a little man. Several people have told me that at first glance, they look like voodoo dolls (though the only similarity is the fact that they are small and human resembling. They are otherwise completely unrelated). However, this association would be understandable since I am just returning from Haiti, a voodoo infested nation. Yesterday, one of my friends suggested that it would be perfect to use them as prayer figures. This opposite purpose is the perfect clash. The way my friend described that they could be used is as so: for each person you’re praying for, attach a slip of paper with their name on it to the small, rope character. There are two types of characters: prayer warriors and guardian angels.

 I thought it was a fun idea! You think it'll catch on?  ;)

Something else I learned is that I need to find something to do with my time in between check-in times at school. Lately, I've spent it on iMovie, working on a project related to my recent Haiti adventures. Now that I'm finished that though, I need something new to work on for the times when I'm not out of the country, helping run a Winterfest, or filling the position of an exchange student to another one of the Mission programs.