Amalgimation...

The smell of fire permeated the air last night as a group of us met in a small house around Seattle Pacific University, we met to talk about God and study the book of Philemon. It's interesting coming from an incredibley intense spiritual enviroment like Word Of Life and attending a college small group. I was blown away by the passion of the groups leader. His heartbeat was that our Christianity would become real, that we would memorize scripture and live for God. It was real encouraging to just sit and listen, to hear about how Paul sent Onesimus back, and Onesimus must have possessed some mad courage cause he could have been put to death for returning. We talked alot about how the tesimony of Paul was so strong it warranted Philemons forgiveness of Onesimus, yet... that wasn't why Paul wanted him forgiven, rather he wanted Philemon to sincerley live out his faith and forgive Onesimus... because it was right. Because it was Christ-like...

 About ten of us sat talking, and praying until it was dark... the campfire felt nice in cool night, as the strange sounds of a local grunge band filled the air. It's wonderful to meet Christians in the city.

It occurs to me I have no photo's of my homecity... no photo's in it either...

This is probably the closest I can come too...

A squirrel walked into my living room today, he was rather aggressive. I sometimes wonder if squirrels suffer roid rage in the Seattle area as they are three times the size of East Coast squirrels, unafraid of humanity, and dwell in kitchens.

Not much is happening today. Life is quite an adjustment from the busy 24/7 schedule of camp to the TV laden, occupy and entertain, world outside of Word of Life. I'm beginning to see more and more just how much I love Seattle, the people, the food, the unique flava-flav of  a city. I'm so blessed to be here, and even tempted to steal photo's of seattle off of other people sites just to show how beautiful it is. Since I tend to obey copyright laws though I can just use stock photo's :( Camera... that's on my to do list, just for life. I was looking at photo's yesterday and realized I have only a handful with my best friend, and in reality? I need to just have more photo's...

Pray For: Seattle, specifically the Seattle Harvest. I have really developed a heart for this place, the college students, people with piercings and tattoos... Seattle is unlike any place I have been, so diverse and unique, beautiful and modern. Amidst this though it is a dark city, not in violence, but in godlessness... I love Seattle, it is almost unchurched when compared to the South, Philly, New York... Large amounts of homosexuality, drug use, and human trafficking blot the beautiful city. Despite this there are incredible things happening from the wonderful message of Church Unity at First Baptist Church Of Kirkland last Sunday to the Act 29 movement... the future of Seattle is looking brighter but I can't help but shed tears for a people so desiring to know God but so blinded. Anyways we are having an event called the Seattle Harvest, where 200 churchs are uniting to share Christ with friends, family and co-workers. It is an evangelistic rally, that starts as a concert but ends with people knowing Christ. It is beautiful to see that. Pray for people to come to the event which happens in early November (5-7), pray that people get saved as Pastor Greg Laurie shares the gospel, pray that Seattle becomes a changed place... 

http://www.harvest.org/crusades/2010/seattle/event-information/home.html

This is a great video on it...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPua5787lUg


I need to learn Mandarin Chinese... It's known as Standard Mandarin, and apparently quite well spoken worldwide...

Easy, right? Mandarin is spoken by aprox. 1.365 Billion people... I feel kinda weird rounding down millions of people... but writing out the entire number is alot...

Apparently it's a really hard language to learn and master, I am still waiting on my copy of Rosetta Stone, so I am watching Youtube video's trying to pick up the sound of the language and learn basic phrases... Huzzah!

I always right to music and today I listening to Monkey Majik, a nice J-pop blend of music like Jack Johnson and the Canadian band Bear (SIC) Naked Ladies... It actually is composed from two Canadians and two Japanese people...

I like them alot... music means much to me, I listen to lyrics and fit them to memories, to life... life is kind of like a giant music video to me... 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Njmp-QGRd0M&feature=related