Friday, February 03, 2006
Praise the Lord Hallelujah Thank God
and no, i don't owe anyone dinner.
Year 2006 has been a year of "firsts". What an interesting night last night was. i was merrily typing away on msn when all of a sudden, two drunk doods bursted thru my suite door and proceeded to hug me. i was like...get the sewage flux outta my room before i dis-equilibrate. they made some loud noises, spilt alcohol, opened a few cupboards and doors and left in a drunken frenzy. i thought nothin' of it till my housemate came home (who was just visiting a friend downstairs for like 5 mins) and noticed his laptop was gone.
i was like...manure on a stick, this is worse than titrating with nitric acid.
we go see the don and apparently these drunken doods entered other suites as well but stole their alcohol. so we call UW campus police.
it takes them a good hr to arrive. we investigate and got some potentially useful info.
the thing that struck me at this time was that my housemate was very calm. he had a sense of peace around him. we prayed and just pranced around and waited.
and waited.
then we decided to go to bed.
my housemate just finished reading a passage of Scripture and i had just started reading mine...when we heard a knock on the door.
they found the laptop, unharmed. wow, it was so crazy...it was like...after we reconciled, lifted it all up to God and just trusted Him...it came back.
This whole rendez-vous really got me thinking...where does my treasure lie? is it on earth where moth and dust destroy and thiefs can come in and destroy? or is it elsewhere for safe-keeping? do i have so much attachment to earthen things that i have lost sight of heaven?
i vow to never be attached to materialistic things as to allow it to strangle and suffocate my values in life.
"Hell is a state of mind - you never said a truer word. And every state of mind, left to itself, every shutting up of the creature within the dungeon of its own mind - is, in the end, Hell. But heaven is not a state of mind. Heaven is reality itself. All that is fully real is Heavenly. For all that can be shaken will be shaken and only the unshakable remains." [C.S. Lewis in The Great Divorce]
