*catching up*
yes i suppose it is time for an update. life has been enormously busy... with what, it's hard to recall. work has reared into full-throttle since school started, and it's back to the good old sex and drugs talks! but i've actually really had a blast at the induction days at some of the schools the first week. gave me a chance to connect with some sna-ers out of sna... don't know if they feel the same way though! but it's all good. i have a good feeling about sna this year. God is preparing some big things, and he's already begun to give us glimpses into the changes he's making at sna. changes on the inside, not the surface. i love that feeling of the spirit stirring from beneath... by human eyes all might seem as usual, calm, mundane even. but underneath the spirit is moving...
it's mid-autumn festival this weekend. a little strange observing the festivities for the first time really since i was a kid. i don't even really remember anything from my childhood - just hazy nights of dangling lanterns on the roof with my cousins. but tonight, as i walked through parts of causeway bay i had never before ventured, i actually felt a sense of foreign-ness, my eyes falling upon scenes i cannot recall. i'm looking forward to tomorrow, when i get to really participate in (well, really just wander amidst) the real party on the street, complete with the tai hang fire dragon dance. tonight, i completely lost my head and forgot it was thursday, cell group night. i went to dinner at dpma's eldest brother's flat at illumination terrace with the whole family: a first without derek. it was cool... although i admit i'm still trying to find my niche in that crazy bunch. i think it has something to do with the fact that they're so completely different than my family. the ma's is a family of 3 very loud boys, with 2 very loud parents. they all like to shout at everything, although it's not shouting for them. the tsang's is a family of mostly girls, where we were always taught to eat dinner in silence, and hardly did anything together. i can't even remember the last time we all ate dinner together. actually i can't remember the last time we were all in the same city together, aside from wedding visits... well, that may explain a bit of derek's and my bipolar personalities.
please do pray for him and the rest of the mission team in cebu right now. they need it! they are there working with the peeps at nehemiah house (an orphanage), ywam, and vineyard church (carlos choi) doing outreaches in slums and villages for the next 3 days.
yes i suppose it is time for an update. life has been enormously busy... with what, it's hard to recall. work has reared into full-throttle since school started, and it's back to the good old sex and drugs talks! but i've actually really had a blast at the induction days at some of the schools the first week. gave me a chance to connect with some sna-ers out of sna... don't know if they feel the same way though! but it's all good. i have a good feeling about sna this year. God is preparing some big things, and he's already begun to give us glimpses into the changes he's making at sna. changes on the inside, not the surface. i love that feeling of the spirit stirring from beneath... by human eyes all might seem as usual, calm, mundane even. but underneath the spirit is moving...
it's mid-autumn festival this weekend. a little strange observing the festivities for the first time really since i was a kid. i don't even really remember anything from my childhood - just hazy nights of dangling lanterns on the roof with my cousins. but tonight, as i walked through parts of causeway bay i had never before ventured, i actually felt a sense of foreign-ness, my eyes falling upon scenes i cannot recall. i'm looking forward to tomorrow, when i get to really participate in (well, really just wander amidst) the real party on the street, complete with the tai hang fire dragon dance. tonight, i completely lost my head and forgot it was thursday, cell group night. i went to dinner at dpma's eldest brother's flat at illumination terrace with the whole family: a first without derek. it was cool... although i admit i'm still trying to find my niche in that crazy bunch. i think it has something to do with the fact that they're so completely different than my family. the ma's is a family of 3 very loud boys, with 2 very loud parents. they all like to shout at everything, although it's not shouting for them. the tsang's is a family of mostly girls, where we were always taught to eat dinner in silence, and hardly did anything together. i can't even remember the last time we all ate dinner together. actually i can't remember the last time we were all in the same city together, aside from wedding visits... well, that may explain a bit of derek's and my bipolar personalities.
please do pray for him and the rest of the mission team in cebu right now. they need it! they are there working with the peeps at nehemiah house (an orphanage), ywam, and vineyard church (carlos choi) doing outreaches in slums and villages for the next 3 days.
posted by jana* at 1:33 AM
