  Well, this week has been pretty good.......it was SOW this week, basically a 3-day retreat while still at school. A guy spoke to us named Mark Cahill, he had some interesting insight.....and man this guy had a ton of stories about sharing the Gospels to other people. It was a great 'wake-up' call to the whole school I thought, because even though we all strive to "walk the walk", we really haven't cared about others enough to help them come to God...... I'm fearing another one of those "spiritual highs", though. Last night, our homework assignment was to share the Gospel with just one person.......and a lot of people did it, which obviously is awesome. But that's just one night out of 365.....what's gonna happen after a full week of school next week?
Are people really going to make time to go witness? Are people really going to care enough? It's time for us to realize that we can't just get up for God when we're forced by the school to spend time with Him.......having things like SOW is great, but what would Faith be like if everyone lived out their walk everyday? Would we have all the gossip, hatred, envy, etc etc et that we have now? Definitely not.....I know that I'm guilty of delibrately disobeying the rules, and I'm speaking to myself and everyone else here.....but the feeling we got today CAN last a while, if people would stick with it.
Unfortunately, most of us are just too "busy" to do that..... And another thing is, I think sharing requires a deep knowledge of the Bible....and almost nobody at our school has studied it well enough to get into a logical debate about religion or philosophy. It's sad, really, because we have a class specifically devoted to Bible, yet that's the only 50 minutes of the day that most of us spend digging through it.....and even then most of us react by treating it as busy work....we never really bother to interpret it to our own lives. So what happens when you're talking with a Muslim, or a Baha'i, or a Mormon, and they want to specifically know more about your God or Jesus or the Bible's prophecy......"I don't know" isn't an acceptable answer to them.
It just worries me that so many people have inherited 100% of their parents' political and social beliefs, so they could always do the same for religion..... This week has also kinda sucked because of the lack of basketball. I even almost miss practicing now. Sigh...there's always next year, I guess. Plus I'm still looking for a girl who I can just sit around and talk to.....I don't even need a girlfriend or anything like that, just someone who isn't afraid to be known as my close friend.
I thought I had found someone like that, but the whole clique thing has gotten so much in the way that I don't really feel comfortable talking to them around other people. On a related note........*clap, clap, clap clap clap, clap clap clap clap* DOG SHOW! 
