My week
I had an intense week this past week.
On Sunday, I started the week like I do every week. I went to church. Now, I play in the worship band at Hilltown Baptist church so I had to be there at 7:45 for a 9:30 service. I played the electric drum set that the church owns and keeps in the sanctuary. It's nice, but I wish we had an acoustic set. An electric set is easier to put through the speakers, but a lot of problems can happen when you rely heavily on electrical things to work properly. The people that run the sound aren't professionals either. They make a lot of mistakes, and they like to do things that they think won't be noticed by us on the stage. Sometimes they mute somebody for entire songs. The funny thing is, none of the problems or discrepancies I have listed for you prevent the congregation from having a worshipful experience. It seems that no matter what we do, or how bad we mess up sometimes, God keeps those distractions at bay. That's one of the reasons why I love going to Hilltown Baptist Church. God is so very at work there in us. After the service, the whole worship team, including sound and all others involved to work on things together. It takes anger and frustration out of the equation when we work together. My church family is so good for me and to me and I hope I am good to them as well.
On Monday, well Monday was just a normal day. I went to school at 7:30 to work out and then to Lares to eat a little something before my 10 o'clock class, Creative Writing. Then I went to the library to do school work and eat a little before my 1 o'clock class, Spanish. Yeah, Monday was a normal day until I remembered it was Monday Night Football. This Monday, it was the Eagles against the Bears. I watched half and went to bed because I go to a Bible study at the Starbucks down the street from my house in Doylestown. I went to bed feeling alright that night, but that would soon change.
I woke up early Tuesday morning feeling like complete crap. I was nauseous and did not feel like waking up at 5:30. I laid in bed but decided that I would feel better once I started moving. I couldn't have been more wrong. I didn't want to eat anything for breakfast. I just drank a lot of water. I went to the Bible study at Starbucks feeling as sick as a dog, however sick that may be. We are going through 1 John in the Bible study right now. We meet every Tuesday at 6 in the morning. It is one of the most beneficial hours of my week every week. After the Bible study, though, I still felt sick. So I went back to bed and slept until my 9:30 class because I had a test in that class. that test was the only thing that got me to go to school on Tuesday. I didn't bother to go to my 8 o'clock. I wasn't going to have it. I took my Anthropology test at 9:30. I really felt like I knew the information and I breezed through the test, but I was feeling very sick so I wasn't going to get my hopes up. After I finished my test in a timely fashion, I went immediately to my girlfriends house in Blue Bell which is about twenty minutes west of Abington near Norristown. I went there because she had off from school for the voting day and I needed a place to relax. I went there and slept for about half the time I was there. My girlfriend took very good care of me. She got me water whenever I asked, she gave me medicine, she even took my temperature. When i felt cold, she put a blanket on me and I didn't even say anything about it. She is the most amazing girlfriend I could have ever hoped for. She is amazing. On my drive back to school for my night class at 6:30, I was thinking about God. I was thinking about what faith is and God's unceasing, unrelenting, unconditional love for me and the entire world. I was recalling the definition of faith that the Bible gives us: 'Faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the evidence of things unseen.' Those words just opened up my eyes and my mind to the vast greatness of my God. Those thoughts moved me and I have to confess, my eyes were tearing up because of how sinful I am and how easily God could justly squash me and be done with me forever, but instead, while I was against Him, He died for me so that I could be reconciled with Him. God is so good.
Wednessday morning I woke up feeling completely better. I was not sick anymore. I even woke up earlier than I needed to and went to work out. That's how good I felt Wednesday morning. After my Spanish class, I went to Chick-Fil-A with a good friend of mine. We had a good time. Then on my way to my friends house, I turned onto a school zone, unbeknownst to me. I was travelling at 41 miles per hour, and got pulled over. I thought i was going to die in how many points this ticket was going to be. My heart was pounding. I explained myself to the cop, and he only gave me a warning. I had just became the luckiest man in town. Add that to my amazing girlfriend, and I am the luckiest guy on the face of the earth.
So that was most of my week. Don't be jealous. You can have weeks like that too.
On Sunday, I started the week like I do every week. I went to church. Now, I play in the worship band at Hilltown Baptist church so I had to be there at 7:45 for a 9:30 service. I played the electric drum set that the church owns and keeps in the sanctuary. It's nice, but I wish we had an acoustic set. An electric set is easier to put through the speakers, but a lot of problems can happen when you rely heavily on electrical things to work properly. The people that run the sound aren't professionals either. They make a lot of mistakes, and they like to do things that they think won't be noticed by us on the stage. Sometimes they mute somebody for entire songs. The funny thing is, none of the problems or discrepancies I have listed for you prevent the congregation from having a worshipful experience. It seems that no matter what we do, or how bad we mess up sometimes, God keeps those distractions at bay. That's one of the reasons why I love going to Hilltown Baptist Church. God is so very at work there in us. After the service, the whole worship team, including sound and all others involved to work on things together. It takes anger and frustration out of the equation when we work together. My church family is so good for me and to me and I hope I am good to them as well.
On Monday, well Monday was just a normal day. I went to school at 7:30 to work out and then to Lares to eat a little something before my 10 o'clock class, Creative Writing. Then I went to the library to do school work and eat a little before my 1 o'clock class, Spanish. Yeah, Monday was a normal day until I remembered it was Monday Night Football. This Monday, it was the Eagles against the Bears. I watched half and went to bed because I go to a Bible study at the Starbucks down the street from my house in Doylestown. I went to bed feeling alright that night, but that would soon change.
I woke up early Tuesday morning feeling like complete crap. I was nauseous and did not feel like waking up at 5:30. I laid in bed but decided that I would feel better once I started moving. I couldn't have been more wrong. I didn't want to eat anything for breakfast. I just drank a lot of water. I went to the Bible study at Starbucks feeling as sick as a dog, however sick that may be. We are going through 1 John in the Bible study right now. We meet every Tuesday at 6 in the morning. It is one of the most beneficial hours of my week every week. After the Bible study, though, I still felt sick. So I went back to bed and slept until my 9:30 class because I had a test in that class. that test was the only thing that got me to go to school on Tuesday. I didn't bother to go to my 8 o'clock. I wasn't going to have it. I took my Anthropology test at 9:30. I really felt like I knew the information and I breezed through the test, but I was feeling very sick so I wasn't going to get my hopes up. After I finished my test in a timely fashion, I went immediately to my girlfriends house in Blue Bell which is about twenty minutes west of Abington near Norristown. I went there because she had off from school for the voting day and I needed a place to relax. I went there and slept for about half the time I was there. My girlfriend took very good care of me. She got me water whenever I asked, she gave me medicine, she even took my temperature. When i felt cold, she put a blanket on me and I didn't even say anything about it. She is the most amazing girlfriend I could have ever hoped for. She is amazing. On my drive back to school for my night class at 6:30, I was thinking about God. I was thinking about what faith is and God's unceasing, unrelenting, unconditional love for me and the entire world. I was recalling the definition of faith that the Bible gives us: 'Faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the evidence of things unseen.' Those words just opened up my eyes and my mind to the vast greatness of my God. Those thoughts moved me and I have to confess, my eyes were tearing up because of how sinful I am and how easily God could justly squash me and be done with me forever, but instead, while I was against Him, He died for me so that I could be reconciled with Him. God is so good.
Wednessday morning I woke up feeling completely better. I was not sick anymore. I even woke up earlier than I needed to and went to work out. That's how good I felt Wednesday morning. After my Spanish class, I went to Chick-Fil-A with a good friend of mine. We had a good time. Then on my way to my friends house, I turned onto a school zone, unbeknownst to me. I was travelling at 41 miles per hour, and got pulled over. I thought i was going to die in how many points this ticket was going to be. My heart was pounding. I explained myself to the cop, and he only gave me a warning. I had just became the luckiest man in town. Add that to my amazing girlfriend, and I am the luckiest guy on the face of the earth.
So that was most of my week. Don't be jealous. You can have weeks like that too.
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