December 17, 2003

• Another weekend came, and another weekend left.

  Friday

  Not much to say here at all since I just stayed home.  Esther stayed home because we wouldn't have been able to spend much time together.  Instead, I just stayed home and played WWE Smackdown.  I think that was it.

  Saturday 

  I picked up Esther and we ordered pizza from  Papa Johns. Yum!  While we ate, we watched KROQ's Almost Accoustic Christmas via the internet. Viva la cable!  It was a clean stream with no interuptions at all.  We were able to see AFI, P.O.D, Offspring and parts of Linkin Park.  Around 10:20, we went to meet up at Yu Yu (the karaoke place) with Jen, Wayne, Dave, Mike and Charles.  We sang for about 90 minutes and parted ways. 

  Sunday

  My mom woke me up around 10:30 a.m to help my dad.  Apparently he needed me to bring him the batteries to the camcorder he was using.   I didnt' know there was two batteries and ended up bringing one.  Of course I wasn't aware of this until after I got to him, and had to go back to bring him the other one.   Once I completed my little mission, I crawled back into bed and slept until 1.   Church was especially good.  The sermon by Andrew Kim was on joy.  A lot of things he said really hit home.  I'll expand on this in my thoughts section.   There was no balling due to the rain and cold.  I ended up going to the gym for a bit and came back home to watch WWE's Armageddon.  That sums up my weekend.
  

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  Getting back to the sermon, one key point that struck me was when Andrew explained what joy wasn't.  He would continue to go on by informing the congregation that a person can have fun yet lack joy.  An example is when people go out when they're down in the dumps.  They hope to escape their troubles with a night of fun but end up going back to where they started.  Temporary fixes that don't get you anywhere.   This really made me think that as the Christmas season approaches, where will I find joy?  Is it in the many wrapped boxes under the Christmas tree or in the stockings by the chimney?  Nope.   The joy will come being with my family. It will come being with God as we celebrate the birth of His son,  Jesus Christ.   Indeed,  real joy is something that can't be taken away like the love of a father for his child.
  

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  Christmas

  Christmas isn't as far as it seems.  I remember as a child, it took forever for Christmas to come.  The night before, I couldn't sleep because I hoped to hear the jingling bells of a jolly fat man and his eight reindeer.  I ended up falling asleep and waking up at like 6 in the morning to find the presents. Santa was here.  As well as his loyal sleigh pullers: dasher, dancer, prancer, vixen, comet, cupid, donder and blitzen (sorry if I misspelled any, it's been a while). Oops, can't forget Rudolph right?  It's definitely beginning to feel a lot like Christmas now.  My pop and I got a tree on Friday.  I even helped decorate.  

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