Just a little over a week into the New Year and it's already been more than exciting! I'm keeping up with my re:solutions. Well, I accidentally broke one already. I ate at the Hat on Sunday with a few friends after volleyball, completely forgetting that I wanted to stop eating fast food. Jay Jay reminded me the other night and I felt like a complete failure. But it's not going to keep me from trying to keep the re:solution from here on out. I guess you can say I made up for it this weekend by over-doing another re:solution. Normally I would only go to the gym 6 times a week but today I played in an all-day volleyball tournament that we loss in the quarter finals. I then played later in the basketball league I'm in with LA Knights, a game we could have won! I had a chance to win it at the buzzer with an alley-oop pass given to me from a teammate but I missed the layup. Two hard losses in one day to start the new year. But that's alright. It's a humbling experience. Can't win them all and at least I'm getting the exercise in.
In spite of that, it was a great overall weekend! On Friday night the youth got together at Jessica's house to watch "Thin Ice," a movie about Vince, a non-Christian young adult who goes on a ski trip with a church group, which includes six strong sets of opinions about God that will soon collide. We had a great follow-up discussion about the movie and learned some lessons such as
1. obedience and love must always go hand-in-hand (one without the other can be sinful)
2. being a Christian doesn't mean you live a perfect life (God is with us through our struggles and can help us)
3. many Christian churches are responsible for leading people even further away from God (I can write a completely separate blog about this issue. I'd highly recommend this book for reading, Unchristian:What a new generation thinks about Christians and why it matters by David Kinnaman and Gabe Lyons.)
So yeah that was Friday. On Saturday night a small group of us went to visit an elderly man in his home who was dying of cancer. We sang a couple songs for him then prayed after. It so happened that he was a doctor and that made me think, for so many years he's been the one helping hundreds, maybe thousands of people. Now he's the one that needs help. Just shows how a disease can happen to anyone. We shouldn't take life for granted but live each day to the fullest because we never know when our time's up. After that I met up with Jay, Adrian and Jenn to watch Tron. I had no idea what to expect other than what I've heard from others in that the visual effects were amazing! And yes, they were more than right! We watched it in 3D which made the experience even more incredible. So not to spoil it for anyone that hasn't seen it, I'm not going to talk about the story line of the movie and what happens.
And Sunday, well yeah I already blogged about that earlier. I should also mention that I made some awesome new friends from 24 hour fitness where me and Jay play volleyball - Mandie, Mallorie & Brittany. They're so fun to be around! More stories about them in upcoming blogs.
