Another Day Done

Oh what a day. I started the day off with James 1:1-4, and a lovely bowl of porridge and an apple with peanut butter. Yum Yum.

Today was also sleep in day, so I got to get up at 7 instead of 6 :) bahaha.

Also Josh Cole was crazy awesome again today. He talked about God's beauty and what God looks like. We went word-for-word through Revelation 4. It was awesome. God is awesome. So beautiful. He sits on a throne in heaven and there is a river flowing from it. I wonder how huge this throne is. God apparently looks like jasper (a diamond-ish stone) and another red stone. So he is pure and multifacited in his beauty, and also resembles fire and love. There is an emerald rainbow all around him, and a crystal lake at his feet. This throne must be so amazing. And all his beauty is comparable (but probably wayyyyyy better) to nature - greens, reds, blues, water, etc. There are elders surrounding him, and they keep getting knocked off of their feet as more and more aspects of God are revealed to them - and this happens forever because he is infinite. The saraphim sing "Holy Holy Holy..." Holy means weighty or heavy - his weight continues to astound these saraphim who sing this for eternity, and the elders continue to worship for eternity, and everything is shaking because of God's holiness. And man. Wow. Holy macaroni. (Holy macaroni would probably be so delicious and so bad for you!).

After learning all of this, there was prayer/worship. I don't know what it was that came over me, but I got really hot and really sweaty and started to feel SO nauseous. It was crazy. I had to sit down and collect myself. I don't know what that was all about, but I think it is a reaction to God's beauty.

Also, the cows outside of my cottage must be dying a slow and painful death because they are making quite the racket out there. I think they must be giving birth, or maybe mating? Or dying. Those are the only things that it could possibly be.

This afternoon we had rec. We played rugby. Kiwi's love their rugby. Rugby makes no sense whatsoever. I don't think that I have ever actually watched a game of rugby or played anything remotely similar to it. I was just running around like a chicken with it's head cut off. I sometimes caught the ball and ran, but I really had no clue what was happening, but it seemed fun. Maybe next time it will make more sense. After rec, I was super healthy again and went for a quick run with some of the other girls, and then me and Merit and Elisa did some yoga in the Gap. I was quite the yoga instructor I have to say. HA!

I also had to trade my dinner dishes duty with one of the guys for his lunch dishes because I was signed up for the prayer room from 6-7. On Wednesdays, the whole base works together to pray non-stop for 24 hours. So there is a sign-up sheet with 1 hour slots and everyone has to sign up. It is pretty cool. I was so happy to just snuggle up in that room by myself and listen to some Jon Foreman and pray. It was a cool experience. And only felt like 10 minutes, not a whole hour! So cool :)

Henk and I signed up to go for open mic tomorrow afternoon, so we worked out a few songs this evening. It should be good :)

Our movie tonight was finishing the Lorax, and then since we couldn't find Star Trek, we couldn't finish it so we started another movie - the Prince of Egypt. Which I have never seen... CRAZY! The movie is good, but it is freezing in the Gap, so it was quite uncomfortable to watch. It is SO COLD here. There was frost this morning when I got up. And apparently it had snowed in the southern parts of the North Island which NEVER happens EVER. So thankfully Van brought his blanky and I forced him to share it with me, so the only part of my body that froze during the movie was my nose. Also, we watched the movie on Henk's computer, and warnings kept popping up in Dutch. So funny. We have no idea what kind of viruses his computer has now because he wasn't here to interpret the warnings, so we just pushed the OK button. Oh well! HAHA

Highlight of the day: the stars. You can see the stars SO WELL here. They are SO bright. And tonight they were awesome. Like, indescribable. Wow. And the milky way. Wow. After the movie on my way back to the cottage I saw 3 shooting stars. That has to be good luck. Doesn't it?

Anyways, Guten Nacht ( I don't know how to spell in German, but I do know how to say good night!!!)