Week 8

Another week at link year and more exciting things going on. This wee Shay Robbins, one of my heroes came and spoke on intimacy with God. I think often during my relationship with God I seek knowledge and wisdom, but the idea of being intimate with God was always hard to wrap my mind around. It was really awesome to talk about the ways that we grow closer to God and begin to share more and more with him about what we are going through in our everyday life. We talked about spending time in solitude with God. No phone no computer no friends. Just you and God, giving yourself time in self examination, while sharing with God the details of your day to day life. To discern that which is displeasing to him and take steps in obedience to cut those things out. 

Next we talked about spiritual gifts and not only determining which gifts but how to use them. Paul writes to Timothy in 2nd Timothy 1 to fan into flame the his spiritual gift. Just because God has given us a spiritual gift doesn't mean we are using it. It is our responsibility to use what we have been given. Tomorrow we have another TGIF so that should be exciting. I am not sure what we plan to do, but it doesn’t start til 9:30 and it is an indoor activity that is pretty much all I know. I am still in the planning process with my group about how we want to do our final semester project, for the most part we are planning to do the same thing, we just need to go out and actually do it.

Week 7

This week was a ton of pretty crazy a bunch of stuff going on. Saturday I took the SAT I think it went really well. Selby helped me prepare for the essay portion. Using literature to support my answers. This week Marvin Daniels came and spoke to is. He works for KAA. He talked to us about some ethical questions that are difficult to answer. If you agreed with the statement you would walk to one side of the room if you disagree you go to the other side. Then we would have some healthy debate about why we chose the side that we did. We had some really good conversations. Some of the topics I have thought about before while others I had to think about and make a decision about quickly. One of the topics was “If we could clone a person, would it have a soul?” I argued that it would have a soul. Another question was about if there was any situation where you think abortion is acceptable. On Tuesday I got some recalls done on my car and bought the tickets for our groups flight to New Zealand. There are currently 9 of us going. I am really looking forward to it. Then on Wednesday my parents came in. I made some quiches and then on Thursday morning we made eggs bacon sausage and waffles for everyone. It was a big hit. Now we are going country dancing so that should be a lot of fun. I have done a lot of swing but not as much country so I look forward to getting better at this.