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Friday, June 18, 2004
it's been a nice week. i've gotten to hangout with some people ... and it's been nice. =] fun talking w/ angel on tuesday, fun talking with dave and albert on monday, fun talking with dave on wednesday, vir on thursday, and boytoy today. great, great week. =] i just finished making the batter for the chocolate chip cookies ... but i think our oven went kaputz ... not sure. i still have to pack tonight for ltc. going to berkeley tomorrow ... on sunday i'll be barting to cv ... jo's gonna pick us up from the bart station at 9. i'm excited to see what God has in store for us ... i'm excited about the vision casting and about the seminars i'll get to go to. it'll just be an awesome time to get away, to spend time with God, and to spend time with my fellow servant team. it'll be awesome. i apologize to my faithful blog readers for these brief hiatus ... but i shall return next friday, hopefully. =] (or maybe as late as tuesday ... we shall see.) =] california here we come -bj 
Thursday, June 17, 2004
in the spirit of the previous post, i'm posting yet again. =]]]]] i'm a PARTAYYYYY AMINAL. yes, AMINAL. (i used to say that a lot 'cuz i thought it was cute; now a lot of times i can't say "animal" even when i want to. =[ ) my social calendar: next week: ltc. w00t. i'm so excited. you have no idea. okay, i'm not THAT excited. heh ... :-P but yeah ... it'll be good. i look foward to meeting w/ all the berkeley peeps and planning for next year. =] it'll be cool meeting people from other campuses too, but i miss seeing the berkeley-ans. (added the dash so people don't think of my apartment building (the Berkeleyan)). some weekend (forgot the date): vicky's house PARTAYYYYYYY some other weekend: past and present servant team hangout. :-P erm ... is that IT? what happened to the social butterfly that was once me? =/ people need to have more parties and invite me so i'll have stuff to do. haha. :-P so someone (i forgot who) suggested to me that i should have a summer small group. i think that's an awesome idea, but i don't know ... there ARE a lot of people in berkeley and around the bay ... i guess it would be me and connie's responsibility to plan it ... hrmmmm ... that means we'd probably have to lead it too ... meaning i'd have to go to berkeley once a week. hrmmmm ... but it would be cool ... and i think they did it last year too. hrmmmm ... :-p family comes home tomollo ... deenar w/ boytoy tomollo too ... then hardcore BAKING. w00t ... then LTC! a week without blogging ... dear my, dear my. come away with me -bj
maybe i should start posting less. whenever i try to tell people about my day / week, they invariably say "yeah, i read it on your blog." =/ i mean, it's good 'cuz i've had people tell me that they feel they still know me even though we don't talk very much ... and i for sure don't have time to talk to everyone about my day ... okay, nevermind. i shall continue posting at the same rate. :-P ----- i was watching this discovery channel special on the great pyramid of giza ... very, very interesting. the pyramids are SO impressive ... but it's weird. the whole show got me thinking, "man, these people built something truly amazing, and there's no doubt that it took an insane amount of work ... but what if they focused that same effort praising the one true God?" i mean, they built the pyramids expecting that it would help the pharaoh reach the stars and hence, immortality. it just made me sad that they wasted all that effort. but then it got me thinking again. i guess a lot of times we're still like that today. no, we may not spend years and years trying to become a star in the sky, but still we focus our efforts on worthless pursuits - pursuits that won't last. true, the pyramids still stand today, which is extremely impressive. but given infinite time, they won't last. sadder than that, though, is that all that effort was for naught. the pharaoh did not achieve immortality; he did not become a star in the sky. and so often i find myself focusing so much effort on things that, in the grand scheme of things, don't matter. i focus on my schoolwork, i focus on finding a job, on my future career. i work, i strain, i stress ... but at the end of my life, will all of this effort be for naught? it will be if that's all i focus on. isn't life better spent worshipping our God? shouldn't we be living a life of praise? shouldn't we share the good news? the great pyramids are a testament to what man can do ... and as impressive as the pyramids are, God longs to use us and our efforts to create something even greater, something of even more lasting value. He longs to use us to accomplish his plans - his perfect plans. there's no pursuit as worthy as doing the will of our God. save me tonight -bj
went to vir's ... wrote a song. =] yayyyyy. haha. well ... it's getting there. almost done. excited about ltc. yahoo. let's just take our time -bj
Wednesday, June 16, 2004
so i just got back from deenar w/ my accountability partner, dave. dude, we were there so long that the waitress basically kicked us out. haha ... well she asked us to please pay. :-P we went to this japanese play @ union landing ... 'cuz it was close to our houses. we got there around 7 and stayed until almost 10. hahaha. but it was good catching up with dave. we had a good time of accountability and just sharing what's been going on ... plus a really good talk on relationships. haha. i guess dave has suddenly become a relationship guru even though he himself is still single. :-P it's weird how easy it is talking to dave about relationships and about things i'm struggling with. i've never really had a guy to talk to about relationships ... well ... i've never really had a guy that i've felt comfortable enough talking with about relationships. =P but yeah, it was really awesome ... and we were able to have a lot more transparency today than we've had in the past. it was an awesome night, and i thank God for bringing henry and dave especially into my life this past year. i've grown a lot because of them. talkin' 'bout the prayers of the saints -bj
worked for testmasters again today. hahaha ... it was ... interesting. there's a really weird story. ask me about it sometime. i'll tell it to you. :-P actually, it might be an ongoing story. haha. anyway, the exciting point of the day occured when this one girl had an emotional breakdown because we wouldn't give her her materials because she didn't have her enrollment agreement form. (we were instructed not to hand out materials to people until they handed in their forms). she called the testmasters office but they wouldn't budge ... so she started crying and going on on how no one was helping her and how stressed she was and so forth ... we told her she could just print up another form and fill it out and give it to us. (there was a library w/ internet access on the floor above us). she just kept crying and telling us how fed up she was and that she was missing her class. good thing angel was there. i'm not very good with sympathy ... especially when the person is being unreasonable. =P anyway ... she ends up talking to the instructor and he calls the office ... the office tells her to print up another form and turn it in to us. (DUHHHHHH.) haha ... so then she cheers up (who knows why. =P) and decides to go print out a form. shrug. :-P tomorrow ... eye apt, clean house, deenar w/ my accountability partner, dave. w00t. to every generation -bj
Tuesday, June 15, 2004
from one of those sample IQ tests ... is 133 a good score? hahaha ... i don't even know the scale for IQ tests. =P the test i took seemed too easy, though. i didn't even need to use a pencil & paper. shrug. "Congratulations, bj! Your IQ score is 133 This number is based on a scientific formula that compares how many questions you answered correctly on the Classic IQ Test relative to others. Your Intellectual Type is Visionary Philosopher. This means you are highly intelligent and have a powerful mix of skills and insight that can be applied in a variety of different ways. Like Plato, your exceptional math and verbal skills make you very adept at explaining things to others — and at anticipating and predicting patterns. And that's just some of what we know about you from your IQ results. " to one and all -bj
Monday, June 14, 2004
today i had lunch with albert and dave fong, our cal aacf staff guy. we ate at in n out @ union landing. it was pretty awesome. dave fong is one cool, approachable guy with lots of good advice ... and albert ... man. aacf has some awesome leaders, but i'm especially glad that albert's on core this year. he has such a heart for God that's immediately evident to everyone around him. anyway, we talked a lot about the role of aacf and the role of the church and stuff. i picked up lots of good insights there ... like, i think i've changed my views expressed in the previous post. yes, i still believe churches should ideally take care of the spiritual needs of the believers. after talking w/ dave and albert, however, i realized that i can't speak in terms of "outreach" and "inreach" ... the two are connected and not mutually exclusive. so it's not really correct to say that church should be more inreach and parachurches more outreach ... because, in fact, inreach ministries help equip believers to outreach. furthermore, outreach should fuel your inreach ministries and the cycle repeats itself. i realized how this was the case at aacf this year. our mission statement for this past year was "to create a hunger for God, witnessing as an irresistible community of Christ-like followers." the community aspect is the in-reach and the witnessing is the outreach, but both are fueld by our hunger for God. we talked about a lot of stuff today ... like the basis for ethnic-specific ministries (like aacf, or asian churches in general). we talked about ministering to a post-modern generation ... it was cool. i didn't realize it, but cal's aacf specifically has always been known to have strong community and strong equipping ministries and has always been trying to work on its outreach ... however, dave, albert, and i talked about how although we may not be specifically trying to evangelize, we have no idea how many Christians would have fallen away were it not for the strong inreach ministries at aacf. furthermore, the inreach ministries equip Christians to evangelize by giving them a firm grounding in their faith. so yeah, i guess you can't really separate the two ... they are inextricably tied, i suppose. praise God, the berkeley people have a ride down to LTC! i can't wait ... it'll be awesome just spending time with all my fellow servant-team members and talking about where we feel God is leading aacf and our specific ministries. man. it'll be great. i'm so glad cal aacf has a staffer. most campuses don't, but we're so lucky to have both dave and angel ... dave always cracks me up. =] my name is Foreigner -bj
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