SoulThirst

Time for the weekly blog post.

It's been a rainy, blustery weekend here in Chicagoland. Twice over the weekend, I was woken up in the early-morning because of roaring thunderstorms. This whole week is supposed to be on & off thunderstorms too. At the same time, when it has not rained, the humidity has been above 60%, making the already-hot temperature that much more unpleasant.

Still, I thank God for daily sustaining grace, which guides me through each weekend. This particular weekend, being July 4th holiday, both youth group and Sunday service were considerably smaller. In fact, Friday night was so small that we ended up not doing what was planned (i.e. meet in individual small groups), and instead combined groups & took them to fireworks too. (Heh, my car had Nessa, wendus, Jessica, & Joyce... what an intereting combination @.@). Saturday was refreshingly free, with much open time to spend with people. Mike Hwang hung around & watched The Karate Kid... such a classic movie.

Sunday was a full day, and had its rough spots, but overall... I can still call it good. The gym for service was swelteringly hot & humid, and the group that gathered seemed more lethargic than usual, but that's expected on a summer weekend (especially a long weekend). Praise God for guiding me through my own sermon :P. Unbeknownst to all of you (until now), I was doing quite a bit of on-the-fly revising, editing, and re-organizing as I was speaking, and so I didn't feel very relaxed in my delivery of the talk, but it still went through, and I trust God with the rest. My Sunday School class, I miss you guys :P... see you all again in August.

Slept the afternoon, then in the evening went down to Chicago with the career adults. Walked around the last day of Taste of Chicago, eating one masssive BBQ turkey leg. After walking around & eating, we gathered to play a bit of softball & volleyball. Actually most the guys played softball, the girls stood around, and I was frisbee-ing. Finally we left around 10:30, walking back to the cars, but not in time, for another thunderstorm had begun to roll through, and soaking all of us on the streets. However, there was something refreshing to walking around the city in the rain.

Today was a good day, spent in reading, meditating, and reflecting- my Sabbath Monday, as it was meant to be. Although, given the weather, I'm getting a bit restless from being confined indoors/at home all day every day. This weeks looks good- less full, though Josh will be out of town for the latter half- but it'll work out.

I have 2 weeks exactly to find a birthday gift for my roommate :P

posted by Andy Chang @ 11:53 PM