Tuesday, August 26, 2008
nothing to do
2 posts in one day? its amazing. soooooooooo god's working. first night......not feeling it. not everything was exactly feeling right. wasn't exactly comfortable even though everyone was really nice. not exactly liking my stay. but god knows. he's blessed me with allowing me to meet a lot of christians and guiding me towards different fellowship groups. looking forward to Intervarsity Cal Christian Fellowship small groups which is basically bible study on campus. definitely a good way to stay on the path. anyway school starts tomorrow and i should probably get ready which means ill stay up and do random things totally unrelated to school....out
Back to school
college officially starts tomorrow....how weird. well i guess not really. but anyhoo not much on this front except im all moved in now. lots of events going around berkeley and i had the chance to eat and participate in a board game night yesterday with sammy and IV(fellowship). plans for tomorrow? school and acts2fellowship korean bbq welcome. so much free food. wherever you go, the different clubs and what not offer you food to get you to go and stay. feeling the freshman 15 early on. hopefully ill start walking more once i have to rush to class.
Saturday, August 16, 2008
Therefore I tell you, do not worry
So I figured I don't mention my spiritual life very often in my blog.....here's my attempt
If you've heard this already then sorry
So I was not guaranteed housing for school this fall. To sum it all up............no place to live! School emailed me telling me they would send out assignments in mid july. They did. I was wait listed. My number was 168 and then offered housing to 130 students. So this is mid july, the same time as senior dinner and a pretty hectic time at KCDC (though all six weeks are hectic). I spent a lot of time worrying and being paranoid about not having a place to live. It was so bad that I was even having nightmares about getting emails from the housing department saying I had no place to live. Then I took a step back, and realized Matthew 6 says not to worry. I stopped and told myself nothing I think is going to help. At this time, I was also doing a lot of praying. I basically told God, he has a plan for me. If that meant being in a dorm or being in private housing or even staying at home and commuting, I would be okay with it because that would be the way God wanted me to testify to the people in my life. Right before camp, I got another email from school. This time it said that they had already made a second round of housing offers but they only went up to 140! Only 10 offers!! In my head I was thinking, how is this possible?!! I was definitely frustrated. What's worse? They actually said that the chances of getting housing was really bad so I needed to start looking for a place around school.............how discouraging....So I started searching online for private apartments around campus that would house only Berkeley students. I gave my sister all the papers and I told her to just fill them out as soon as I got emailed all the info for the forms. Going up to camp........my attention was not on getting away from the distractions of the city and spending quality one on one time with God, instead I was worrying about housing. Then Monday night, I called home and my sister said I got an email from UCB housing offering me a triple mini suite. How amazing God works.
All those times I could have been trying to find a place during KCDC or during camp, God reminded me to focus on Him and that I didn't need to worry because he would always provide for me. So like I said up at camp, I give it all up to him because I know He was at work and that all things are possible with Him.
If you've heard this already then sorry
So I was not guaranteed housing for school this fall. To sum it all up............no place to live! School emailed me telling me they would send out assignments in mid july. They did. I was wait listed. My number was 168 and then offered housing to 130 students. So this is mid july, the same time as senior dinner and a pretty hectic time at KCDC (though all six weeks are hectic). I spent a lot of time worrying and being paranoid about not having a place to live. It was so bad that I was even having nightmares about getting emails from the housing department saying I had no place to live. Then I took a step back, and realized Matthew 6 says not to worry. I stopped and told myself nothing I think is going to help. At this time, I was also doing a lot of praying. I basically told God, he has a plan for me. If that meant being in a dorm or being in private housing or even staying at home and commuting, I would be okay with it because that would be the way God wanted me to testify to the people in my life. Right before camp, I got another email from school. This time it said that they had already made a second round of housing offers but they only went up to 140! Only 10 offers!! In my head I was thinking, how is this possible?!! I was definitely frustrated. What's worse? They actually said that the chances of getting housing was really bad so I needed to start looking for a place around school.............how discouraging....So I started searching online for private apartments around campus that would house only Berkeley students. I gave my sister all the papers and I told her to just fill them out as soon as I got emailed all the info for the forms. Going up to camp........my attention was not on getting away from the distractions of the city and spending quality one on one time with God, instead I was worrying about housing. Then Monday night, I called home and my sister said I got an email from UCB housing offering me a triple mini suite. How amazing God works.
All those times I could have been trying to find a place during KCDC or during camp, God reminded me to focus on Him and that I didn't need to worry because he would always provide for me. So like I said up at camp, I give it all up to him because I know He was at work and that all things are possible with Him.
