Day 21
- perspectives (great story-teller)
- heard Brian and Jennifer’s story about getting together...it's soooo cute!
- amber talked about cults (Mormonism, jehovah’s witness, Hare Krishna) to the group. I've never heard of Hare Krishna, and I still don't fully understand it. But we'll be going to one of their worship services this Friday
- prayer and singing with girls on roof under stars...after the lecture on cults, most of the girls at the Project went to the to roof (it's a girl's only roof), and prayed. It was really good, and afterwards we were singing worship songs to God
- In the night, I got to play Frisbee again, but this time w/ Kat, Logan, Trevor, Amy Terry, and Leigh
Day 22
- perspectives (hysterical speaker)
- Pasadena Community College, looking for an international student with Leigh...we were given two hours to find and interview an international student for our paper for the Perspectives class. I think the first hour and a half was spent searching and complaining.
- but we found a woman from China who was really nice
- laundry!
- Hollywood photo scavenger hunt – small group plus Jon the bday boy and Josh...we were given a list of things to do, mainly with a lot of strangers (such as give a piggy-back ride to a stranger walking across a busy street.) It was really interesting the people we got involved, and as soon as I get the photos from it, I'll put them up.
- we took the LONG way to get there, and everyone got sick because of the curvey roads. we were turning around this mountain at crazy angles.
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Fully Human
Being fully human is our job. Thinking and laughing and arranging and creating and relating and designing and nurturing and responding and reacting a pondering when googling became a verb and wondering and exploring and meditating and acting and making long lists of verbs and calling and talking and feeling and sharing and doubting if this paragraph is ever going to end and teaching and learning and jumping on a trampoline and sighing and celebrating and dancing and turning to the person next to you and saying: "This is living.”
I'm only human
Being human isn’t a bad thing; it’s a good thing. It’s what God intended. How could we be anything else?
The issue, then, isn’t trying to escape our humanity in order to morph into something, or somebody, else. The problem is all of the things that get in the way of being fully human. When a person says, “I’m only human,” perhaps what they mean is, “I have this habit of making choices that inhibit my being fully human.” This is a primal struggle in al of us, and it goes all the way back to the garden of Eden. The temptation was, and is, to trade our full humanity for something else.
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