Saturday, April 20, 2002
God is awesome! oh man, why do i ever doubt? really! ok, so here's the sitch. i've got to raise about $4700 for the argentina trip, and i have to have it all by may 8. that's like, what? three weeks away? maybe not even that much. but anyways, i've just been struggling lately, wondering where the money is going to come from, and when it's going to come in. our project director sent this email, and he's like 'y'all should send out at least one hundred support letters.' craziness. i don't know 100 people i could write to! i barely had like 40 in the first batch of letters i sent out a couple weeks ago. and as of yesterday, all of 5 people had replied. yeh, it's just rolling in. so anyways, i was starting to worry a little bit, even though i know i shouldn't. i prayed about it yesterday, and then i was talking to luke, one of the other guys who's also going, and he is pretty much in the same situation, so we prayed about it over the phone. not 5 minutes later i check my email and my mom had written me that another $300 had come in. that's gotta be some kind of record response time for God. in any case, it was really encouraging.
so basically i have two papers, a test, and a presentation due tuesday, and a third paper due wednesday. everyone and their mother knows this, yet as we speak, four different people are trying to get me to do four different things tonight. mind you, this never happens when i have no work and want to hang out with people. whenever that happens, people are conviently 'busy' or have too much homework. but when i can't let myself go out? the night options are crawling out of the woodwork. it's a comspiracy i tell you! somebody wants me to fail out of duke badly. well it ain't gonna happen! hehe.
just had a funny conversation with a good friend from back home:
nancy: so do you have any love interests or is that against your beliefs?
me: haha! come on, it's not like i'm a catholic priest or anything
nancy: well, you might as well be compared to the way you used to act
me: lol. this is true.
i really wish i had a good defense for that, but alas, i fear not even the semantic wizardry of william jefferson clinton could get me off clean from that one. but it's ok, cuz i got the blood of Jesus Christ covering my butt, thank goodness.
'the saying is trustworthy and deserving of full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom i am the worst. but i received mercy for this reason, that in me, as the worst of sinners, Jesus Christ might display his perfect patience as an example to those who would believe in him for eternal life.'
1 timothy 1:15-16
amen to that! good night and God bless.
sounds: jennifer knapp - trinity
food for thought: church and schools in vichy france, 1940-1944 - nicholas atkin
so basically i have two papers, a test, and a presentation due tuesday, and a third paper due wednesday. everyone and their mother knows this, yet as we speak, four different people are trying to get me to do four different things tonight. mind you, this never happens when i have no work and want to hang out with people. whenever that happens, people are conviently 'busy' or have too much homework. but when i can't let myself go out? the night options are crawling out of the woodwork. it's a comspiracy i tell you! somebody wants me to fail out of duke badly. well it ain't gonna happen! hehe.
just had a funny conversation with a good friend from back home:
nancy: so do you have any love interests or is that against your beliefs?
me: haha! come on, it's not like i'm a catholic priest or anything
nancy: well, you might as well be compared to the way you used to act
me: lol. this is true.
i really wish i had a good defense for that, but alas, i fear not even the semantic wizardry of william jefferson clinton could get me off clean from that one. but it's ok, cuz i got the blood of Jesus Christ covering my butt, thank goodness.
'the saying is trustworthy and deserving of full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom i am the worst. but i received mercy for this reason, that in me, as the worst of sinners, Jesus Christ might display his perfect patience as an example to those who would believe in him for eternal life.'
1 timothy 1:15-16
amen to that! good night and God bless.
sounds: jennifer knapp - trinity
food for thought: church and schools in vichy france, 1940-1944 - nicholas atkin
