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here i sit, wanting to go to sleep but unable to because of 1 simple culprit - brazillian sunrise coffee. it's a dark roast, which means it's a strong brew. i thought i'd drink that tonight at 10pm because i thought i would be up late studying for a humanities test tomorrow and doing a math quiz i thought was due tomorrow. well, the studying didn't take long and i found out the math isn't due 'til Friday afternoon...so now i'm being kept up for now reason :)
i got to go home last weekend for jared & kristen's wedding!! awwww, great time! they're so awesome, i love 'em! and seeing my family makes it all most excellent. i sure do love them!
sunday night was really encouraging - i went with becky & tiff to applebee's after church because they've been going every Sunday night to witness to this waitor there. it was so cool to see the friendship they've built with him just by showing up there once a week. since tiff's leaving for colorado for the summer next week, hopefully i can get to fill in for her while she's gone :) it was just so awesome to see the girls getting out there and sharing the love of Christ with strangers they meet.
i left my notebook of sermon notes in the pew at church. sad. i hope someone finds it and knows it's mine! there's a lot of good stuff in that thing.
OH! i read Lamentations this past week out of pure curiosity. wow, i think it's my favorite book of the OT (at the moment, anyway - hehe). i don't even understand half of it i'm sure, but i still got some amazing things out of it. the Lord has destroyed Jerusalem and the people are in horrible shape and all. and i'm not totally sure why He did it, so if someone has the background on it, please fill me in! i think it was because they had fallen into so much sin? don't quote me on that though. anyway, the first half of the book is Jeremiah lamenting about what's happened. but then all of a sudden, he switches tones and totally praises the Lord for who He is, His justness, His righteousness. like...that just SO amazes me. here he was, along with the rest of the people, suffering horrible things at the hand of God's wrath, and yet he still acknowledge's God's goodness and total justness. amazing. it sure convicted me in that so many times when i "suffer" things, i tend to think "oh, woe is me...". but here jeremiah was, knowing that the events happening were because of his and the people's sin (i think?), and he's not bitter about it. and then i was reading some of the Psalm's that are cross referenced with the end of Lamentations, and it was so cool to read the Psalm and now understand what David was dealing with when he wrote it. (or did Jeremiah write the Psalms that coorespond to Lamentations?)
hehehe so obviously i don't have a good grasp of what all is going on in the book, but i still love it!! and i want to learn more! can anyone fill me in on if Jerusalem ever gets put back together?
alright, i suppose i'll just get in bed and read 'til i fall asleep.
keep it real.
~jen~
OH PS - funny story. okay, the setup for this story is i just walked into the room tonight and kristen was in bed but i knew she wasn't asleep yet.
so i asked "hey kristen, can i listen to luke smith's cd real quick? i'm borrowing it from boonie"
kristen: "of course, you know you can listen to whatever you want as loud as you want. it doesn't bother me"
me: "aw, cool thanks!!"
:::a few minutes pass. during which time i have some silent expelliations of gaseous material:::
kristen: "okay, i can take music playing, but i can't take the smells!!!!!"
hehehe oh the joy of being an anosmic.
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