Tuesday, December 16, 2003
heaven sent blessings
the weekend was incredibly busy and full of wonderful blessings as well as sorrows. we had been preparing so much for so many months and sunday was just the public "debut" of heaven sent. it was such a super wonderful mass, so upbeat and full of Spirit! the church was really packed actually, which is quite rare for st. paul. and we got a lot of praise from even the old folk. there was this one lady, who stopped me while i was running around doing last minute stuff. she must have been like 70 years old and she says to me, "oh i love it when the mass is like this! so upbeat!" imagine a little old lady just like the one on wedding singer who raps onstage. she was so cute!
my mom told me afterward that she overheard some other old people saying to our pastor, "father, is this still a catholic mass? it's so rocking!" i'm glad the congregation was very receptive and enjoyed the mass.
we even had an overabundance of food for the AfterEvent, and we had close to 100 kids there all throughout the games and activities. it was very satisfying and i couldn't help but tear up especially in the beginning of the mass when i saw the youth singing and their energy was just radiating! i knew we were doing great things for HIM and it was a wonderful feeling. but it's just the beginning, so i sure hope we can keep the energy up. as wonderful as it is, it's also exhausting!
okay, pet peeve: people who think they are just TOO cool, too old, too anything. aughh, remember being a teenager, and you were just tooo cool to do anything babyish or not cool? and unless you were in a church group already, church was just soo not cool. it was just an obligation. *sigh* sometimes i wanna slap some of these kids upside the head. but it's okay, they'll come to it in their own time. i sure didn't get it when i was that young. and some people who don't wanna play because they feel like they're too old. we had all kinds of ages in that group from 5th & 6th graders to freakin 26 yr olds rockin and playing games. it was seriously a great party! and some people were just anti because they felt so old. well, crap, if they're old, then what the heck am i?!
and the sorrows of the weekend: please pray for the comfort & healing of marianne and her family. they recently suffered the loss of their auntie. and a happy birthday to you my dear!
my mom told me afterward that she overheard some other old people saying to our pastor, "father, is this still a catholic mass? it's so rocking!" i'm glad the congregation was very receptive and enjoyed the mass.
we even had an overabundance of food for the AfterEvent, and we had close to 100 kids there all throughout the games and activities. it was very satisfying and i couldn't help but tear up especially in the beginning of the mass when i saw the youth singing and their energy was just radiating! i knew we were doing great things for HIM and it was a wonderful feeling. but it's just the beginning, so i sure hope we can keep the energy up. as wonderful as it is, it's also exhausting!
okay, pet peeve: people who think they are just TOO cool, too old, too anything. aughh, remember being a teenager, and you were just tooo cool to do anything babyish or not cool? and unless you were in a church group already, church was just soo not cool. it was just an obligation. *sigh* sometimes i wanna slap some of these kids upside the head. but it's okay, they'll come to it in their own time. i sure didn't get it when i was that young. and some people who don't wanna play because they feel like they're too old. we had all kinds of ages in that group from 5th & 6th graders to freakin 26 yr olds rockin and playing games. it was seriously a great party! and some people were just anti because they felt so old. well, crap, if they're old, then what the heck am i?!
and the sorrows of the weekend: please pray for the comfort & healing of marianne and her family. they recently suffered the loss of their auntie. and a happy birthday to you my dear!
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greatest hazard of life is to risk nothing. The person who risks
nothing does nothing, has nothing, is nothing. He may avoid
suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn, feel, change,
grow, live, and love."
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"It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues."
~ Abraham Lincoln
"live a life that others will remember years from now, NOT because it pointed to you but because of how it pointed to the One who made you."
~ Mark Hart, the Bible Geek
"we grow up learning to become self-reliant, but really we need to be God-reliant"
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"never wound hearts that love u, never give them the endless pain, because wounded hearts are like roses that never bloom"
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