Monday, April 10, 2006

Thinking positively...or?

So today I woke up...and went back to bed after turning my alarm off...like I do nearly every morning. So when i finally got up, one of the first thing that comes to mind is ...school... Dreading the thought of going back to school, yet i cant avoid avoid it. So, recently I've been trying to make the better out of things and thinking positively, and so I remembered that it will be easter this week. After remembering such an event, all i could think of was...a shorter school week. One of my only motivations that got me through the week sometimes was just the thought of the end of the week. Only __ more days till weekend I would tell myself...instead of ...It's only _____ today and i have ___more days till school's over. Im sure many of us agree to say that we dont enjoy school so much, and it wouldn't be near the top of our lists on our "want to do" lists. I tried looking at it in a different way, and told myself "I like school...it makes my weekends so much better". So, luckily, thinking "positively" this way would get me through my week faster. Or was this a way to think "positively"? Im basically saying "school sucks and i wanna get it over with", in a more polite manner.. am i not? Or thinking of a positive way to say something negative? ....A really long while back, someone had told me that I was honoring God through how diligently I work...that recently came to mind and became my better motivation for actually doing my schoolwork.
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Looking back a little...

So...today in the morning after i got to school...i found out i had a MATH TEST. YAYY. or not. I got through the math test alright, despite not doing my homework for the longest time. I think God has blessed me with many talents, and academics was one of them... I was an A student throughout my life...until this year. Everything had gone by so easily for me in the years past..."Wesley how come you dont have homework? When Daniela was in grade ____ she had so much work! and you?" So I was quite blessed with talents that God has given me. But this year was a totally different experience...a first one at that. Consumed by games and whatnot, I hadnt done much of my work throughout the year and everything had gone downhill.. Now im trying to get back on track, and once again, with my better motivation of honoring God through how diligently I work.
So, as i progressed through the day..I find out I MISSED PRACTICE.. Man, i felt terrible...not sure why, but I just did. We have a soccer practice nearly every day now whether it be in the morning or after school. I honestly didn't even know we had a practice today..so yea...that kinda sucked. My coach, also my gym teach, was having a bad day because of lack of sleep and the lack of people at the soccer practice. So we had a little meeting after school...and then my consience kept making me feel bad for missing the practice.

*sorry for those Canadians who dont like my spelling because i r American-ized. (e.g. honor not honour)*
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more thoughts....

So, every Sunday I go to church...sing, listen to the sermon, go to the upper room...talk for a bit....and then...what next? I've noticed that barely anyone goes to the Sunday schools...why? I dont know. So recently, Devin, a newcomer to the church and the christian faith, has started attending ETCBC. It really kills me to see how much I *could* influence someone. Yesterday (sunday), when Jason was walking around in hopes to find some High schooler's to attend his sunday school..he found me ..and Devin. He asked Devin if he would attend...and he said "I'll just go wherever Wesley goes."....man...every time i had missed a sunday school class my conscience had already poked at me and made me feel guilty. And after Devin said that, it only made me feel more guilty and added to the um...*guiltiness?* that i was feeling. Leading by example...I had actually talked to someone about this a little ways back...and well, if there was ever a good chance to lead by example...here was one. I really think us high schoolers should attend sunday school on a regular basis, and lead by example and encourage others to do so as well.
Sometimes, I personally could try harder at attending these classes...but...what if i feel im not learning anything? In the several times that I have attended these classes, many of the few times i was there, i felt that I wasn't absorbing anything...and thus i felt as if i didnt need to go. So what now? should i go anyways and just be a good example for others to follow? Would going to this class without the spirit of learning something more about God and just going for the sake of going be a bad thing? Give others a false idea and just show them that I'm a "good christian"? i dont know...

1 Comments:

Blogger Kiki said...

To say sunday school we actually should go more but we have times when we get lazy or tired of being lectured at school so some of us dont want to go to sunday school or us ppl just dont have the patients to listen but i must say you mite have wanted to bring Devin because he just came and well you guys should show eachother examples but the part about not absorbing anything i mean tht could change i mean we shouldnt go to church to have fun but to learn Jesus' ways at least i find it tht way but only with bible study, hmm would bible study be kinda like sunday school? im not sure.

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