Happy Birthday, Jason!

Me: "Birthdays are a good thing. It means you're still alive."

Quality.

I do not want to eat cow for a long time.

Mary, Alinna, Jason Kuo, Seri, and I went to the House of Prime Rib on Wednesday. We stuffed ourselves. I was so full that when I got home, all I could do was sit on my couch and drink chamomile tea. Jason called me. I was able to talk for all of 15 minutes. And then, I just had to go to sleep.

While we were driving home, Mary starts saying "I'm drunk on cow!!" The next day at work, we established that we had a hangover from the cow.

ugh. but much fun.

More fun tonight! Massive sleepover at my place! Are we making sangria?!

If anyone knows someone who is looking for housing in the East Bay, let me know.

There is an apartment for rent in my builing (a house converted into 3 separate flats). It's a 1 bedroom, 1 bath, kitchen, etc. The house is SOOOOOO cute. Beautiful front and back yards. It's less than 1 block away from beautiful Lake Merritt.

If you are interested, please let me know in the next few days. I think it'll get snatched up really fast. They want to give it to someone they know. (or someone I know!) So....let me know ASAP!!!!

Blogger is freakin' crazy...

I got this strange hack into my blogger. It went away after I republished a few times. BUT...*shiver* it gives me the heebyjeebies or however you spell that.

I wrote this post about how I had fun hanging out with Sam. But it was lost during the blogger madness. Maybe I'll post it again later.

Thanks to everyone who has been praying for us. My family really appreciates it. (Gosh, I sound like my sister). Please keep praying.

So Jason and I went to Mosaic yesterday. It was very refreshing.

Rod Howard, one of the elders spoke. They've been going through Ephesians for the past several months. The past few weeks, they've been on Ephesians 6. Talking about the spiritual battles that happen daily over our lives.

Yesterday's sermon was only on Eph. 6:17. "And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God."

The word for sword is actually more like dagger. A shorter blade, used for hand to hand, hot-breath to hot-breath combat.

Within the armor of God in Eph. 6, this is the only piece of armor that is actually defined. The sword of the Spirit=Word of God. The greek translation for Word of God is something (i forgot)..but the intent is that it is a precise Word from God. Not the entire scripture, not major theological concepts. But exact Words from God. Rod really exhorted the congregation to to make an effort to memorize precise, specific scripture passages. That that would be our defense for overcoming the world, for standing strong against the assault of Satan. This was how Christ did it when He was tempted in the desert.

He talked for a while about how insidiously Satan creeps into our lives. Encouring self-indulgence, self-satisfaction, complacency, and laziness. He talked about how, yes, TV and internet have content that is unedifying. But, furthermore, they medium is detrimental, in that it eats up our time.

I was really convicted by this message. The emphasis was not on the act of Scriputre memorization. But, it was emphasized time and time again that we will need to "beg God's grace" to allow these verses to transfuse our lives so that we can counter satan with them.