Still sick. We got snow. Got to see friends from Ontario. Watching the Canucks game tonight. Still debating on if I want to do an internship or not and if I do, what do I want to do??? Going back to school soon...not too sure how I feel about that. Too much to explain with not enough time to think about it right now.

Ok, ok, I'm back. I said it wasn't sure when I'd be able to update. This is the first time I've been on a computer since last Saturday. Life's going well. I've been sick with a cold since I've been home, but it's all good. I've gone to see 4 movies since I've been back (Mona Lisa Smile, Love Actually, LOTR Return of the King, and The Last Samurai) none of which I paid for (YAY!). Anywho, I've got one week left and still so much to do. I've done quite a bit of homework, but there's still a lot of that to do. God's been teaching me (or trying to anyways), but I just keep getting more and more confused. We'll see where things end up. Enjoy the rest of your holidays!

How time flies! I didn't realize it's been a week since my last post. There's 6 days till Christmas (doesn't quite sink in when I'm in Eston). I am done everything for this semester, and man does it feel good. It's weird...I'm looking forward to going home, yet not. I'm looking forward to leaving school, yet not. It's like I want to be everywhere, yet nowhere. I h.a.t.e. saying bye to people, and it's going to be worse this semester because so many people are unsure if they are returning for another semester. Athena is for sure not returning. She got a teaching job in Japan. I'm happy for her, but I am going to miss her a lot. We're going to have fun this morning though. One last adventure before the holidays. I don't know how often I'll be able to post over the holidays, seeing as my computer will stay here, but I'll update when I get the chance.

I'm done all of my assignments, now I just have 3 exams left. We had such a beautiful chapel service this morning. Accoustic worship and a time of sharing the hope that we have in God. I cannot desscribe how powerful God's presence was. Somebody else will probably write about it though, so I'll leave it to them because they are better with words.

No matter how many times I have read the book of John, it has never come as alive to me as it did last night when we were watching a word-for-word movie of the book of John. My head was spinning so much trying to comprehend the teachings. We didn't get to finish watching the whole thing becaus it's just over 3 hours and we didn't have that much time last night, but we will finish watching it some time. A question was asked of me a few minutes ago, though: "If Jesus wasn't crucified by man, would He have died anyway?" I responded with "Yes, because He was fully human, and as humans, we die." I was then met with the statement, "But d.e.a.t.h. is the penalty for sin." What are your thoughts?

There have been a lot of people, including myself, who have been breaking a bunch of the rules at school. Things like showing up late for in-dorm time, church, chapel, floor meeting, community group (sometimes only a minute or two), or just not going at all) quiet time, wearing sweats in class, etc. Now, the majority of people see these as little, insignificant, rules, but they are rules nonetheless. We were told at the beginning of the year that, although we may feel that way, it is our choice to be here. We know what the rules are before we come here and if we don't like them, we don't have to come to this school. If people think they are just "little" rules, why don't we just follow them? Sure they may seem to make life inconvenient at times, but they truly are in place for our benefit. Even if we don't normally have to follow these exact rules, there will be rules in work places and in life in general that we have to follow no matter how much of an inconvenience they may seem to be.

People often say "I don't have time to pray". Then there's the cringe worthy responses of "You need to make time to pray" or "You don't have time NOT to pray". While these responses are true, I find it difficult somtimes to make it impact my life. For a while I was like "Oh ya, I pray", which I did, kinda...it was just that I would toss up little prayers of "God, please do (this) in so-and-so's life". This last little while, I have been reminded of the importance of confession of sins. At first I thought it was just the need to confess to God, which it is, but there's also the importance of confessing to those in authority over me (when I break their rules). This is something else I have been being taught over the last couple weeks...I need to follow the rules of those in authority over me because God placed them in those positions and He tells us that, as long as those rules do not go against His ways (that we know of), we need to respect them, because if we disrepsect them, then we are not only disrespecting them, but we are also disrespecting God.