30 October 2011 - Part 1

Last night I slept... more reasonably, relatively speaking. Daniel showered first, and then I got mine while he went downstairs to play a bit of pool. We then walked to the church, where Meghan met us, having biked there from her place. We caught just barely the tail end of Sunday school, followed by the service, which lasted from 11 AM until just about 2 PM. Seriously, long service. Of course, when it takes a full hour to get around to the welcome/announcements stage, and then when the prayer is lengthy, and the sermon lasts almost a whole hour as well.... Anyway, Rev. Givens preached a powerful message on John 3:1-7 about the necessity of being born again, because "good isn't good enough". Plenty of great gospel music there, of course. After things ended, we didn't stick around for their fellowship meal, since we were on a tighter time schedule. We walked to Subway, discussing the service on the trip. Once there, we had lunch together (mmmm, sub...). Then Meghan had to part ways with us, and Daniel and I returned to the dorm. We grabbed his stuff, and then went down to the prayer chapel, where he performed a couple of his latest musical compositions for me on the piano. One of them was among his best pieces of work, I think. Then we carried his stuff out to his car, exchanged some books (he returned some I'd let him borrow, and I let him borrow two new ones: David deSilva's Bearing Christ's Reproach, and Francis Collins' The Language of God), and read some Chuck Norris fact jokes. Daniel returned with me to the dorm to refill his water bottle and use the restroom once more, and then I went with him back outside to see him off. Naturally, he blared his horn obnoxiously while driving through the parking lot, just for good measure. Now he's on his way back to Pennsylvania, hopefully on a safe journey. I'll miss the guy, but I'll see him again, God willing, when I return home for Christmas break. Now, however, I believe I have little choice but to take a nap to recharge, since I haven't gotten much sleep lately.