A couple things about my 23rd birthday, which is coming July 20.
Item One. For all who consider themselves friends of mine and would like to attend, I am having a birthday dinner.
When: July 20, 2007 at 8:00 PM.
Where: McMenamins’ Cornelius Pass Roadhouse (corner of Cornelius Pass Road and Imbrie Drive).
Who: All friends, co-workers and associates of mine.
Why: My 23rd birthday.
RSVP: Comment this post, MySpace, e-mail, or call if you know the number.
Once again, anyone who is a friend of mine is invited to attend. Please bring a $5 or $10 love offering.
Item Two. I don’t normally ask for birthday presents, but I felt it appropriate at this crazy stage of life to set up an Amazon.com Wishlist, which consists of Nike+ iPod accessories.
I wanna start running again, just like I semi-promised myself I would at the beginning of the year. I figured it would be a cool thing to do if I could motivate myself by jamming to some tunes while I run. Nike+ iPod accessories have gone down in price recently so I added them to my Amazon Wishlist.
I’ve been decimated over the past couple days by a massive head cold, but I’ve still somehow found the strength (thank you, Jesus) to be able to work the past few days after Senior Camp and earn some much-needed money.
That being said, I worked 1-6 PM at the Apple Store today. After that I got together with my friend Holly from Tacoma, who was visiting family in Portland, and we went to the Sylvan Starbucks for some coffee. Then I played a round of disc golf with Brian again, in which I won by one shot yet again. After that we went over to Brian and Andrea’s place to hang out, eat and watch TV.
I won’t mention what TV show we watched, but let me say Chris Hansen is the MAN.
Now I need to go sleep this cold off. It’s kinda weird because I’m still scared to sleep after that dream I had a couple nights ago.
Wasn’t it only about six months ago that I had a bunch of money, a loving girlfriend and the world ahead of me?
Ever heard of NOOMA videos before? I never had until Corey McBee, the youth pastor up at Rivers Fellowship (our COGOP in Tacoma) and the group leader for our cabin at Senior Camp, showed them during cabin focus time.
In the NOOMA videos, Rob Bell (pastor of Mars Hill Church in Michigan) dedicates 12-15 minutes to a certain topic and makes it culturally relevant to our lives using great visuals, superb video editing and a well thought-out devotion.
I found one of them on YouTube, and it’s one we watched at Senior Camp during Corey’s Wednesday night message. It’s about noise and listening to God when we need to most.
It happened on April 26, 2007. The day I call “Black Thursday.”
Fast-forward to Senior Camp, where a bunch of my friends still hadn’t heard the news that I have been single for two months. On Tuesday night I was talking with Pastor Paul Arnold of High Point COGOP in Tri-Cities about the breakup, and how bad I felt for awhile.
“Give it six months,” he told me, pointing to his heart. “When you’ve invested that much in a relationship, it takes a while to recover. Give it six months.”
Now fast-forward again to last night. I lay my head down to rest, prayed to God that I would get another good night’s sleep and gave Him control over what may happen in my dreams.
Somewhere I think the transmission between God and I was intercepted. I had a dream in which I was frantically searching for my ex, crying uncontrollably in the street near an apartment she lived in and asking anyone that passed by if they knew who she was. I saw her look out her window at me with tears in her eyes, just watching me stand there in the street asking for answers from anyone who could give them. Finally I ended up seeing her face-to-face, where she stared blankly at the ground and didn’t say a word.
Perform a final fast-forward to this morning.
Pastor Paul was right. It’s only July.
I thought I was doing so well recovering from the breakup, but occurrences like this only serve to set me back to the day it happened.
