Plunge @ MindSay

I forgot to mention that sam was in town for a week.  It was really awesome, i missed her.  And now she's gone :( But really it was as if she had never left.  Anyway, had a good week.. and i actually stayed home all week while my parents were at camp (i'm almost starting to feel my age lol) so yeah good times.  Got to go to plunge on sunday - the second and last plunge of the summer.  It was quite refreshing, seeing people again and just being immersed into the spirit (if that makes any sense??) and i really needed that.

So i'm for sure going to take a course at LU.. just one composition course which is worth half a credit and basically consists of sentence structure and reviewing things.. so if i can handle that i'll know i can handle more later.  It's mondays, wednesdays and fridays from 2:30 to 3:30pm.  So i should be able to get there on time :P  I really hope i'll be able to handle it, though, and could definitely use some prayer.

Oh, so pumped about next week!  I'm going on a retreat to wildwood bible camp from next sunday to the saturday after that.  The only "eek factor" (just made that up) is that i'll have to be at church at 8:30am on sunday.  So i get to look forward to my dad litterally pulling me out of bed.

What else............. bought a cd if anyone cares lol.  KT Tunstall because the songs i've heard of hers so far are good, and i can't seem to get them off the computer.

Anyway i'm off.. can't wait for supper as my dad's making seafood and pasta  yum!

Hello out there MindSay land.

 

This is a friendly little game of 'What Kind of Scenario is That?'

 

Characters; Sheena [which is me, preferably played by someone pretty like.. Emilie de Ravin], brothers Paul [shoot for.. Justin Timberlake] and Erik [a good geeky actor... give me a name.]

 

Scene; Paul is at his girlfriend's house. Sheena and Erik are in the car [small, compact] and they are on their way to pick him up.

 

What is interesting about this is the fact that Erik is A. someone who has only had his G2 since the end of March and B. wearing his new paint ball mask thing [which, alas, reminded me of Plunge.]

 

Now, Paul's said girlfriend lives near Boulevard Lake and it was foggy for some weird reason tonight. Erik seems to love the idea of turning off his headlights and driving around the lake in the dark to scare me half to death [what if that happened twice? would I be scared.. to death completely?].

 

And after picking up Paul, we [the three sibs. That's what I call us, the 'sibs'. Except they don't know that, or I'd have many bruises lining my arm, not even the fourth sib knows that. (that's Ericka, just so you know. We don't have time to rant about the whole Erik/Ericka thing, now do we?)] were driving down Wardrope singing. That's right, we all seemed to be singing the song that came on the cd. Which was Tribute by Tenacious D

 

And we played the first thing that came to our head

which just so happened to be

the best song in the world, it was the best song in the world

and if you look into my eyes it is easy to see

one and one make two, two and one make three

it was destiny

 

And ladies and gentlemen, that makes me stop questioning why I love my family. 'Cause I may not show it, but I do. That was a good 30 minutes of my evening. The rest was spent typing up that stupid culminating activity for science. Grrr, death.

 

That's all I have to share,

Shalom!

[wait, does that mean hello or goodbye? In case you thought I just started this again, BYE!]

- <3 Sheena

 

 

If you found this blog interesting/amusing in any way, please let me know. I would love to revel in the fact that someone out there finds my life somewhat interesting/amusing. :)

 

This Entry Was Brought To You By The Letter K [for the amazing band Keane]

Last night at plunge the message was about truth. The corner was a set of trash cans, we were asked to throw out something that would symbolize what is holding us down. I thought for a long time about it. I have a lot of things that hold me down, but there are lots and they're vague. I thought back to a period of my life that one of my friend's calls a "self destructive" period... ie a sinful period.

 

I was at home alone, and I had just finished trying to deal with the effects of my actions on another person's life. Unfortunately I don't live in a vacuum, so what I do, affects almost everyone around me. I felt horrible, broken down, beaten and like I had no way out. I didn't understand why I was doing all these things. It was like I was trying to fill a hole that I didn't understand how it got there. I picked up my cellphone and called a friend, when she answered, I immediately burst into tears and told her everything... not just what I did, but how I felt, how I didn't understand, how I couldn't come to terms with myself, or worse, God.

 

Instead of telling me I was stupid and to stop (like I secretly hoped she would). She started to tell me about how she knew. How she could tell that something was different. She told me about how what I should be running from is what I'm running to to fill the hole. Instead of  exercising my freedom, I was locking myself up. She said I needed to stop looking for something else to fill me and to realize what was already filling. It was from this conversation that I developed my runaway bride theory.

 

The bible says that Jesus is our bridegroom. This would make me his bride. In the movie Runaway Bride, Julia Roberts plays someone who keeps trying to marry someone to have something to hold. Thing is, none of the people she marries are what she actually wants, yet, she keeps running to them. When she finally meets Richard Gere, and eventually gets engaged to him, she runs from him as well. There's a point in the movie where she says something along the lines of "I run from my other fiances because I realize that they're wrong for me... I ran from you because you were right". I (and I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one) have this same problem. I'm walking down the aisle to the only One who can fill me and yet, I get scared and turn around and run.

 

The item I drew to put in the trash can at plunge was a pair of running shoes. They looked more like sausages with a scribble on them but I know what they are and God knows what they are. I made a vow to stop running away. To stop holding myself down by running in the oposite direction.

1. booksay: Chapter 4: And the Winner is...
2. justbrowsing: MudSay We?
3. tammycamera: Packing, Packing, and more Packing
4. plunge: Whats paradise
5. hypnagogic: Spending My Time, Too
6. tootboy: "Holy 2nd Blogaversary, Batman!!"

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Commentary: Matthew Ulmer AKA booksay "mudwrestled" his way to #1 today. While yesterday, "plu-" dunka was #4, "plu-" nge was at #4 today. What is it about "plu-"s and them making #4 blog? Is it a coincidence or is there something sinister at hand? Thoughts for the day!

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