My class is so interesting. This evening a man spoke who grew up a Roman Catholic, converted to Islam for about 12 years, then converted to evangelical Christianity. He obviously understood very well the way Muslims think, and was disturbed at the way Christians approach Islam- with so many misconceptions and weird ideas. In regards to his conversion to Christianity, he quoted someone as saying something to the effect of, "Why would I settle for a shadow of God when I could have the real thing?" The Shari'a for him was just a shadow of experiencing God: as close as he could get.
Walked up St. Joseph's hill with Sally, that trail is full of memory for me, good memory. I made her talk up all the hills! I need to get out and run if Vicky and I think we can do this race in a few weeks.
Got up at 2pm today after working and sleeping. Hope I can sleep tonight.
Misha and I went to hear George Verwer yesterday at a Chinese speaking church in Mountain View. He is the president of OM, Operation Mobilization, and always wears a jacket with a drawing of the globe on it. He referred to the jacket but said, it sort of hangs on me wrong, it looks better on fat people... I don't think the Cantonese translator quite caught the nuance of his idea!! Felt good, again, to be in the minority, not so good to be standing up introducing ourselves in the microphone!!
I was telling Katie at work last night that I am ok, I suppose, but I have about a 48 hour cycle, and I hit a low about that often. Wondering what I am doing living at home, how long with life go on without too much direction, and where are the people I will fit in with? I am glad for God's Spirit of truth that can divide truth and error in my own heart and make me aware of it. I get worked up and upset about things, especially in regards to living at home, that can be a skewed perception of how things really are.
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