The muzak: Sleep All Day - Jason Mraz
April 01, 2006
hearts are deephey!
today was really really fun.
the day started out early again cuz nick, rach, and i decided to meet up for breakfast again. this time we met up at choupinette's. and i actually got there EARLY! 10 minutes! hahaha yay. so anyways, i had a really expensive breakfast. again. raviole's in mushroom sauce for 18 dollars! but it was really good. and i really do love the cafe. rach had the jason's set, and nick had an apple tart thingy. the portion of the raviole was TINY but i got so full from it, it's amazing. i thought i could've tried all the other yummy looking pastries. but these cafes are seriously expensive... sad to say, i don't think i could be doing this every single week :( but next week, we're targetting botanic gardens. hahaha we haven't gotten enough of it yet.
and we wanna go somewhere exotic this summer. but all we can probably afford is bali. so i hope we can go!
oh yeah, technology is funny. i was talking to ruth on the phone one time with my old samsung phone. and it beeps every few minutes or something. and it so happened that ruth was saying something something freaking something something. and the phone happened to beep at freaking. something something f*beep*ing something. i'm like HUH! ruuuth!
and isaku's leg hair is a whole other epidermis in itself. a black epidermis.
anyways,
i got to read this passage in romans 9 (in the message version) just now. it was really something interesting to think about.
" What God did in this case made it perfectly plain that his purpose is not a hit-or-miss thing dependent on what we do or don't do, but a sure thing determined by his decision, flowing steadily from his initiative."
(should read the whole chapter in context)
it really made me realise how God's sovereignty still IS always above the free will that he's given us. all of us have a free will, but he's already made decisions that will never change. and it is true that God's plans are flexible, and that what we do seem to altar or affect it, but God is sovereign above everything. he hardens people's hearts when he chooses to (like pharaoh), and allows his goodness to be evident in certain people when he chooses to. then there will be questions like, "why does God still blame us for what we do? why can't he just blame himself?"
then the passage moved onto say that we should never question God's sovereignty. a good analogy it used was with a potter and clay...
"clay doesn't talk back to the fingers that mold it saying, 'why did you shape me like this?'"
sooo in the same way, we should never question the things God does.
it was reassuring though, how God's already have fixed plans for our lives as well. nothing we do can change it. i could mess up over and over, but those plans will never change. so nice :)
well, tomorrow's the last day of spring break :(
saaad.
oh yes, greetings from japan.
uncle jonathan sent me a picture of victoria :)
it's spring now, and cherry blossoms are blooming everywhere in japan. i wish i was there! i've never seen cherry blossoms, and i know i'm missing out.
awwwww.
okay well, i better be off now.
bye!
What goes "oom oom"?