Woo hoo! I can now officially listen to Christmas music without being pummeled by a ferocious crowd of loonies who think it's a crime to listen to it before Thanksgiving! (I started in July!)

Thanksgiving

So, today is Thanksgiving, and I have so very, very much to be thankful for. First and foremost is the single most important thing ever--that God in His infinite love and mercy chose to sacrifice His perfect son Jesus Christ so that each and every one of us could have a hope of salvation from the life of sin and misery that we deserve. He paid the ultimate price so that we could have the opportunity to spend eternity with Him, and I am so very grateful for that. I could never, ever even come close to thanking Him enough for that. And beyond that, He went even further by blessing me with the wonderful life that I have been given. He has placed so many fantastic people in my life, and has given me amazing talents. I am so thankful for my amazing family--my mother and father, my two sisters, my step-mother and step-siblings, my grandparents, and all my other wonderful relatives, and all of my spectacular friends--the list of which would be nearly endless--who have always been there through it all, through times of great joy and times of great sorrow. Every single one of you has been a huge encouragement to me in everything I do, and I am so very grateful to have you in my life. I love you all so very much! I am also thankful for the gifts that God has given me, and I pray that in everything I do I will use them to His glory. I have been given so very much, and as I said before, I can never truly show enough thanks for all of it, but I want to do the best I possibly can. May you all have a blessed day full of cheer and wonder and thanksgiving for the bountiful blessings that we have received!

Praise of the Peoples

So, tonight was the second ever Praise of the Peoples where we all get together at a church with people from all over the world and just have an awesome time worshiping the wondrous God that we serve in a variety of languages. I went last year, and it was an amazing experience, so I had been extremely excited about it, but I spent the whole day doing Christmas shopping, and had gotten very little sleep the night before since we had to take Christen to the emergency room, so though I was very anxious to go, I was extremely exhausted and really in a rather un-Weston-like mood. Besides that, last year, Sophie and Amy were here to celebrate with us, so I was already beginning to miss her quite a lot before we even left. Anyways, Christen noticed that I wasn't quite myself and got me some hot chocolate before we went in to help cheer me up again, and that did a great deal of good. Chocolate certainly can do some rather marvellous things...hee hee. Anyways, so I was feeling quite a bit better, and when we started to sing, it was a joyous sound, but I still couldn't help missing Sophie a lot--what can I say, I love her--so I did have some tears flowing for a few minutes, but it is very difficult to remain sad when you are in the presence of God. It was awesome. And then, I got yet another amazing surprise as I glanced at the program and saw that my calc III recitation teacher, Xiaojing Zhang was going to be delivering a message about worship in China. This was a completely awesome revelation. I had always enjoyed having her as my recitaton teacher. She just always seemed so kind and willing to help out in any way she could, which is rare in a college classroom setting. I had her my freshman year for calc I and was overjoyed when I found out that she was my teacher for calc III as well. Up to this point though, I had no idea about her great faith in God. It is always a wonderful occasion when you discover that someone you know is devoted to passionately serving God. I went up to her afterward and thanked her for everything, and she in turn stated how very happy she was to see me there. She said it filled her with great joy to look out into the crowd and see the faces of some of her students in the crowd, and we both exclaimed about what an awesome God we serve. Wow! God is so much more wonderful than we will ever be able to understand here on Earth, and He never ceases to amaze me. Thank You so very much for that Lord! Anyways, she is part of the Chinese Christian Fellowship here at K-State, so I think I am going to go check it out at some point, so I'm very excited about that. Well, I will once again be putting on the blue shirt and serving as an usher tomorrow morning, and since had a large lack of sleep last night, I suppose I should be going to sleep now. I hoe you all have an immensly magnificent day tomorrow!

A Very Wonderful Day Indeed

Today has been a most wonderful Saturday! It was very nice and relaxing, and I actually managed to accomplish quite a lot, so that made it very pleasant indeed, but, what really made it so utterly fantastic was the fact that I got to talk to Sophie on MSN during a large majority of it. She is amazing in every way and never ceases putting a huge goofy grin on my face, regardless of the circumstances, and I am so very glad that I can make her smile too. So as you can imagine I was in quite a joyous mood all day long, and indeed am still grinning like a Cheshire cat. I do miss her like crazy though and am extremely excited for Christmas. Tonight I watched the movie Happy Feet along with a Veggie Tales movie about Esther which though wonderful, only caused me to miss her more. Only 43, nearly 42 days left....hee hee! Yay!! Thank you God so very, very much for letting me meet her! You are awesome! Alright, well, I suppose I should be getting to bed now as I am filling in for someone as an usher again tomorrow morning at church.