Lent 12

Nothing like a Sunday to get you back on schedule.

My Sundays are pretty hectic.  While most of my friends get to sleep in on Sunday Mornings, I have the joy of waking up at 8am to get ready for Children's Choir rehearsal.  After dealing with the little ones, I then get to sing with the adult choir.  Following that, I typically grab some lunch and make sure things are all set for AU's Service at 7pm.

But no matter how much I bitch and moan about having to get up so early, I like being busy.  It keeps my mind occupied.  I feel like I have purpose.  I'm not a Type A person by any stretch of the imagination.  If I have nothing to do, I just wind up sitting on my couch all day watching TV reruns.  Now don't get me wrong, I enjoy my sabbath time when I do nothing, but it makes me enjoy the work I do all the more.

Today, I saw God in a busy schedule

For an explanation of what's going on, check out this post.

Lent 11

I solemnly swear that I will never bust The Eagle's chops for forgetting to post rants again.

At least I'm only 40 minutes late tonight.

Today was the Founders' Day Ball here at American University. I'm generally not a fan of big dances or the like, so I didn't go. Tickets were hard enough to get as it was. My roommate on the other hand is in a relationship, and because of that he had to go (lest his girlfriend read this, I'm sure he also wanted to go, but that's neither here nor there). So he's getting ready and me and my other roommate realize that he has no idea what he's doing.

He didn't tie a Windsor Knot
He didn't shine his shoes
He then got shoe polish on the one tie, so he had to get another
He didn't have collar stays
His socks had holes in them for crying out loud!

Basically, he was a hot mess

Luckily, we were able to intervene in the nick of time and we got him out the door in a fashion that was deserving of the formal event he was attending.

I saw God in that today. In two roommates helping out another one who was open and receptive to help.

Here's hope some of that sticks when he has to go to the White House Press Corps Dinner in 20 years.

For an explanation of what's going on, check out this post.

Lent 10

So I missed today...whoops...

My excuse is that I spent tonight with some pretty awesome people writing a pretty awesome murder mystery party, which I guess is a God sighting in and of itself.

Today I saw God in an evening full of laughter and fun.

I'll figure out a punishment for missing the deadline though.

For an explanation of what's going on, check out this post.

Lent 9

So I'm generally not a fan of the Epistles.  Well, it's not that I don't like them, I just don't think they should be biblical canon.  What makes them so special that we have to give them the same weight as the Hebrew Scriptures or the Gospels?  What do other writings written since that period lack that says they cannot be considered "Holy Scripture".

So this semester I (with the assistance of one of the pastoral interns and another student in the campus ministry) have been studying the Epistles to find out just that.  We've been meeting once a week on Thursday evenings and just going through them chapter by chapter.  We laugh, we learn, and we grow in faith together.  While I can't say that my mind has been changed (yet), I can certainly say that I appreciate where Paul is coming from now that I understand the context of his writings.

Today, I saw God in learning from the Scriptures.

For an explanation of what's going on, check out this post.

Lent 8

I've noticed that a lot of my posts on this Lenten thingy have been about fellowship. Maybe that says something about my view of God as a relational being. Today is no exception.

Wednesday is when we have our weekly United Methodist Student Association meetings. Today we got through our business and were left with 15 or some odd minutes and so we all got to just hang out, goof around, and just enjoy each other's company.

Today I saw God in the fellowship among the UMSA.

For an explanation of what's going on, check out this post.

Lent 7

I need to get better at this. Maybe next year for lent, I'll give up putting off my daily discipline till the last minute.

Anyways, today I saw God in an evening of fellowship with my Methodist peeps (I promise I will never say Methodist peeps again)

For an explanation of what's going on, check out this post.

Lent 6

I woke up today, and knew it was going to be one of those days. I woke up at 11:30 for my 11:45 class and it kept going from there.

But then I got to Chamber Singers, and even though we were in the acoustically shitty rehearsal room (rather than the Recital Hall) we made some kickass music. We looked at our a cappella lit from last year to keep it fresh for the tour in May and it was rocking.

Today I saw God in music.

For an explanation of what's going on, check out this post.