I suck at intros.... oh well, y'all gotta bear with this now XD. I swear, these get shorter and shorter every time.
I really want ice cream, haha, but I don't want my aunt to drive me to McDonald's just for an Oreo McFlurry because that would be selfish and completely unnecessary. Dinner is in T minus 3 hours, so... not a good option to stuff myself with a good ol' McFlurry and not be able to eat the real food.
Why am I even ranting about my hunger?
Alright! Lezz gooo!!!!!!!!
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Day 3 18th Thursday
Session - Walk pt. 2
We all woke up lacking sleep. However, this day was the chillest day of them all. The session - which I will get to later - was right after breakfast and so everyone was more or less awake. The atmosphere of the session was way better than the night before.
Afterward, we did our first session of archery. I really liked this "coach", he was so chill and he had music and everything. However, one of the boys in my grade misinterpreted one of the signals the "coach" was giving and fired an arrow. He was banned from the range and was forced to sit down for the coming hour. My muscles were kinda sore from canoeing the day before, but still, I managed to get a few 16-20 points each turn.
I was admittedly just as rusty as everyone, although my season starts this SATURDAY!! So hyped XD.
Okay, back to the main thing...
Lunch was good, a much better selection than half burnt meatballs! Though I didn't really pay attention to what it was.
And then we had another archery session. But this "coach" was very easily distracted and we didn't get to shoot as much. Oh well, I wasn't really in the mood for more archery anyway.
Then, free time was my killer. Quite literally. So near our cabins is this place called Tube Hill, which in the winter will be covered in snow and one would sled down onto a frozen lake and onwards. But, it's the middle of May and there was no snow, just really overgrown grass.
I was half running down the steep slope to join my friends at the bottom, they took the same path and so I thought it was safe. The grass covered the hole which led to my injury, I stepped right into the hole, hard, and twisted my ankle really really badly. I thought it would be something minor but then taking off my right shoe got very difficult when I returned to our cabin.
Yup, it was swollen in two places.
It's not easy being a clumsy 15-year-old girl haha.
Well, I just sat on my friend's bed, a little too much in pain to go up to my bunk. And a series of me yelling for my friends not to get the teacher and my friends trying to over power me to get the teacher to hear them ensued for about 3 minutes.
I surrendered, and the teacher wrapped my ankle.
After the teacher left, a crazy half hour of banter dawned, I laughed so much my sides hurt even more!
Then, the storm which was predicted to roll in.... rolled in. When the rain and wind hit the camp I was immediately reminded of the typhoons in Hong Kong( I miss home :( )
And then there was a session of worship after supper. It was glorious. And I could most definitely feel the Holy Spirit working amongst us.
Then we had a campfire, where I had my very first s'more. It was very good, but perhaps a little too sweet for my taste. I would have just settled for graham crackers drizzled in chocolate, and have eaten our self-roasted marshmallows on an actual open fire (oops, it's not Christmas but shh.. wait, it's chestnuts not marshmallows in the carol...double oops on getting the name wrong) separately.
On the way to the campfire site, most of the boys in my grade were singing 100 bottles of beer on the wall, they replaced the beer with something called... shei... or something like that... it was very hard not to join in and it was very amusing to listen to. Once the song was finished our campfire had grown into a standard barbecue fire, perfect timing!
It was a very good day.
Now, onto the session!
_________________________________________________________________________________
The passage for this session is Ephesians 5.
This is part two of "Walk".
Last time we were preached to on how to walk it right. This session kinda has that, but more on other ways of walking it right.
We were immediately given a relatable example - being late to class.
Of course, we always have our reasons, our misunderstandings between the teacher and we. And so to take away that misunderstanding, we must walk in love and be children of light.
I'm not sure how that connects but... our speaker made it work so.... haha oh man I should not have been daydreaming.....
We have many cultural lures, some include the idols I shared last time, or it could be the cultural influence of the people around you. It is hard to walk in love in Hong Kong when everyone only cares about work and money and grades and no one cares for those who are in actual need.
To walk in love as children of light, we must make sacrifices. We were given the example of Bill and Melinda Gates who have pledged to a certain... pledge... that gives 98% of their fortune to others and 2% to their family/children.
Jesus did the same.
He is the King of Kings! He is the Lord of Lords! He could have chosen to be born in a palace with a hundred servants but he gave that up and was born literally in an animal feeding trough. Jesus walked in humility, he walked in love as well.
Most of all, he could always have refused to follow God's plan of salvation, but he chose to sacrifice his life for us sinners who do not deserve this grace, this deliverance.
Jesus is our ultimate role model to shape our walk after. And according to how he walked, we should also watch how we walk.
We closed with the example of a fellow brother in Christ whom my current school has prayed for, for two years. This pastor is still currently being held hostage in a country I will not disclose. He was a perfect example of how to walk in love and in light even though he could be cursing God at his situation.
So... Walk in love, as children of light.
I hoped that connected because my notes are super detached. I tried haha....
Onto the final part of this post! The devotion!
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I didn't really draw a full picture unlike one of my friends, who sat atop Tube Hill the entire hour before breakfast and drew the lake from there.
I have a few snippets of the nature around me. I also twisted my ankle while going down to draw the five petal flower.
Well, it was pretty worth it.
Also, excuse the bad lighting.
I didn't really read the scripture for this devotion, which was Psalm 95-96(yes, the whole two chapters), but I just took this time and admired God's creation.
I encourage y'all to do it too! Wherever you are, you can draw a tree or your backyard or your schoolyard but just take a moment, quiet your heart, and breathe.
Okay, that's all for this post and I am still very much hungry
Stay tuned and
BYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
No comments:
Post a Comment