Wednesday, March 12, 2008

It's too wonderful for me

So, I am going to make an effort to make my blog slightly less boring in terms of it only being about studying. The last half a year or so has been a little crazy, and at times I've been in a kind of funk, but I've been doing really quite well lately. This week, my mind has been focused more on important things, such as God and friends and life and discipline rather than laziness and lust and boredom.

I am excited about things that are going on here.

Church is interesting, we had our service in a bar/club this Sunday, and I would hope that we may be able to move there permanently. We are outgrowing the arts center with more than 200 people. Such a change from maybe 50 people two years ago. There are so many more people I don't know. A few of us have talked about how to encourage diversity. I try to bring some international folks, but I think because of people's busyness that it's just as hard as Americans to get involved on a deeper level. But it's exciting.

Conversation / bible group with Z has been great this semester. It's good to get to know folks and to talk to them about deeper spiritual things. It has been encouraging to approach scripture and see kind of how strange it is and wrestle around with it.

Looks like I'm headed back to China for the summer. Hopefully things will all come together for it, visa and all.

I've thought a lot about singleness and the future. The potential of a relationship is pretty exciting, but time will tell. I think I must continue to be patient for now and see how life progresses post this summer.

Will I ever finish my degree? I'm not so sure at this point. Maybe it would do me good to get some teaching experience before I do, so I could actually work on a thesis that would be good. I've personally been experimenting with language learning methods the last half a year, and I have learned a lot. I am finally performing my experiment of reading through Anna Karenina in Mandarin, and it's been surprisingly helpful. We'll see once I've put in 40 hours or more.

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