Well, well..
So this week has been a weird one.
I returned from a 10 day long training trip for my intern year with Intervarsity. I do have to say that it was an amazing time/ trip. It was a little too good. I feel like I'm having the same problems with re-entry into everyday life, as if I were gone on a mission trip.
It was really encouraging to be around people who were just as freaked out as I can be sometimes, and to really get an idea of how people are attacking this next year. I was inspired by just being around people who had such a heart for serving others, and wanted to make such a different on their respective campuses. We were a fun group.
Thanks to this trek, I feel like I have a new purpose in life. I get to find out how I interact with others, and with God without the filter that I put on myself, in terms of being closed off to people. I used that to protect myself from others. Why I'm afraid of others, or what they think of me, I prolly won't find out for a while (too lazy to investigate). God challenged me to be able to knock the walls down and really be vulnerable with people.
On a train ride home from the grand canyon, I had the chance to just sit and freestyle with some people at the back of our car. IT WAS AMAZING. I loved being able to be spontaneously in the moment and creating poetry. I think that it shot me with a renewed desire for verbal expression. This probably means that something is coming soon in the form of some kind of poem.
New love: Canoeing!
I love going down to Oakland, and hitting up lake merritt. Tara and I have perfected our technique of rowing together. It always gets me, just how awesome it is to have a piece of peace in the hustle and bustle of the city life. Right in the middle of the city, there's a lake, and if you go out on it, you'll come back feeling more peaceful than when you left. Everytime I'm on that lake, I feel like I'm just out by myself. I can really just have time to think about things and love the fact that I'm in such peaceful surroundings. Tara is a good partner, mostly cause she's rowed before, but always because she is the only one who doesn't deny my desires to get in a boat and paddle ourselves around the lake. We paddled a good way around the whole lake yesterday. It was quite awesome. I think that I'll try to do that every time that I'm in Oakland. (which could be starting to happen quite often)
New Outlook!!!
I returned from a 10 day long training trip for my intern year with Intervarsity. I do have to say that it was an amazing time/ trip. It was a little too good. I feel like I'm having the same problems with re-entry into everyday life, as if I were gone on a mission trip.
It was really encouraging to be around people who were just as freaked out as I can be sometimes, and to really get an idea of how people are attacking this next year. I was inspired by just being around people who had such a heart for serving others, and wanted to make such a different on their respective campuses. We were a fun group.
Thanks to this trek, I feel like I have a new purpose in life. I get to find out how I interact with others, and with God without the filter that I put on myself, in terms of being closed off to people. I used that to protect myself from others. Why I'm afraid of others, or what they think of me, I prolly won't find out for a while (too lazy to investigate). God challenged me to be able to knock the walls down and really be vulnerable with people.
On a train ride home from the grand canyon, I had the chance to just sit and freestyle with some people at the back of our car. IT WAS AMAZING. I loved being able to be spontaneously in the moment and creating poetry. I think that it shot me with a renewed desire for verbal expression. This probably means that something is coming soon in the form of some kind of poem.
New love: Canoeing!
I love going down to Oakland, and hitting up lake merritt. Tara and I have perfected our technique of rowing together. It always gets me, just how awesome it is to have a piece of peace in the hustle and bustle of the city life. Right in the middle of the city, there's a lake, and if you go out on it, you'll come back feeling more peaceful than when you left. Everytime I'm on that lake, I feel like I'm just out by myself. I can really just have time to think about things and love the fact that I'm in such peaceful surroundings. Tara is a good partner, mostly cause she's rowed before, but always because she is the only one who doesn't deny my desires to get in a boat and paddle ourselves around the lake. We paddled a good way around the whole lake yesterday. It was quite awesome. I think that I'll try to do that every time that I'm in Oakland. (which could be starting to happen quite often)
New Outlook!!!