Day 10: Got This On Lockdown.

Well I'm sitting in the lobby area of our apartment complex listening to some guy play the piano. This is the area with wi-fi and all the students living here congregate in here. It's really quite tonight, though, so the piano music is perfect and adds to my contentment. Pacabel's Cannon is just floating through the air...so lovely. :)

I went to church this morning at an international service in the main building here. It was amazing. That has got to be one of my favorite things about traveling--worshiping God with people who can't even speak my language is something that can't be explained. No matter what culture, language, background, etc. you come from, all Christians worship the same God. He's the same in every language and tongue and that simply astounds me. I love it. The service was in English with a Thai translator, and it reminded me of Honduras. I always loved listening to Richie preach at the Grace Farm church with Danny translating. (sigh) I need to go to Honduras on the ASAP. But anyway, the message was about being "fruitful" in the new year, which is perfect because I'm really trying to focus on the fruits of the spirit right now...particularly patience. I know God is going to do some big things in my life this year, and I'm just waiting in anticipation. I know I'm going to come back from Thailand a changed person, and I'm praying that God will open the doors he wants me to enter and close those he wants me to be done with. (I'm going to get geeky for a second, and if you know me at all...this is so me.) I feel like my life is like the night sky. In all the apparent randomness of the stars, there is still a methodical order present. There are still constellations that make sense and can be understood, but it's not completely obvious at first. It takes some studying and faith, but it's there. Orion doesn't look like a fighter with a belt at first now does it? And on that rare occasion, most of the time at dawn, all of the visible the planets are perfectly aligned. It's fascinating. So to relate all that back to my life...I feel as if God is in the process of aligning my life. I mean that in several ways. I can see how God is lining up things in my life in everything from keeping me at Lee for grad school to allowing me to be in Thailand right now. It's crazy how God works, but there's always a method to His madness. I can't wait to see the things He's going to do in 2010.

In other, less important news...we visited the Old City of Siam today. It was tourist-y, and about a 5 on the fun scale of 1-10, but it's whatever. I guess we have to do stuff like that. I'll put a few pictures up, just because I took some there. We bought some cool hats, and I kissed a water buffalo. (Did that one for you Madre!) There was some interesting, classic Asian temples and stuff and the food was awful again...you know, the same ol' thing. Haha. Can't wait for tomorrow at school. We're taking the skytrain in the morning for the first time, so we gotta get up at like 6am. Boo. Welcome to the real world.

I'm out.
Cwalk.