So we had class this morning at around 10 and last week I was a bit discouraged to say the least about the speaking situation; however, it was totally redeemed today.
So our topic right now is the Character of God and knowing God better. It was awesome. To start off the day we had base worship, so all the schools/staff etc gets together for worship. haha omg it was so much fun. The songs were so upbeat everyone was dancing and jumping and singing and no one cared. There was on song that I guess was Africa, so Richard, the leader of worship this morning, called up all the African people oon base up to the front to show us how to move like Africans to this one song. It was hilarious - we all just laughed and danced and had fun - it was amazing. So then the next song they were like, "So we do things a little differently here" and I was like, "uh oh" so they started singing this Banana song, and basically you repeat peel the banana (and shake your arms down, then squash the banana and clap, then shake the banana and shake your folded hands, and then go bananas. Haha so basically it was awesome SO fun. I loved it. We were all so hot and so sweaty after words. Richard was like, "if you're not sweating you're not doing it right" so we all just went crazy.
Okay so THEN we had class and our speaker this week is Cliff Wiener (sp?). It's really funny and very visual so it made it super simple to understand and get what he was saying. So many analogies and things I've never heard before. The class went by so fast and I couldn't not listen. He made a few points about how we have a built up representation of God based on our authority figures that lead us to falsly accuse God of being a "bad guy" or whatever, which really hit me, and that He's just waiting for us to open up so He can tell us all the secrets He wants us to know. One of the analogies he gave was of a child giving a crumpled weed to his mother as a gift and the mom responding by saying, "I love it, it's beautiful, thank you!" just because her child took time to get it. And so basically he said, that our worship to God is like that. It'll never be good enough but that doesn't matter because God loves it because it's coming from us. And then another one of my favs was the basketball analogy. That we need to talk on the court, or in the relationship, because there will always be a defender, a distraction, that clouds our view, so we need to be able to hear God clearly by making sure to have a clear and open relationship. Anyways, so I know this was long, but today was really exciting for me and I'm looking forward to my 7 pm class tonight.
Keep praying guys.
Oh ps. If you think about it theres a Bible for the Nations class waiting for $5000 funds for the their outreach still so they were trying to do that by the end of today - so if you think about it give a quick prayer that could would provide more than necessary to help out all those students.
Have a good week!
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