Cold-shower Tuesdays.

Class started at 8:30 this morning in the main main auditorium. Lee Burns spoke to us about our core beliefs, basically what key values we is most important to us personally. My big one was integrity (obviously). These are some quotes from him taken from my notes:

 

“Your accent won’t make you a foreigner here, but your attitude might.”

“You can’t determine what confronts you in life, but you can determine what follows.”

“When you have purpose in your heart, you’ll have purpose in your mouth.”

  

"Lift your experience to the level or your belief, instead of lowering your belief to the level of your experience.” 

                           -Lee Burns

  After Burn's class, we had chapel, then Old Testament, in which we "unpacked" (it's a term they use here for "analyzing") the first two chapters in Genesis. Before today I thought I knew the story of Creation backwards and forwards, but after today I feel like all I had ever known was the watered down Sunday-school version, which is sad because I know I have read those chapters more than once.

Tonight,  I had volunteered to work in Hillsong kids, which was a little difficult because Tuesdays are our busiest days, and I was already worn out by the time the kids came in. When I came home, Bearden told me some people down the road had thrown out some stuff out of their house onto the side of the street. Being  expert scavengers by now, we looted the pile for anything that could be useful to a couple of thrifty Bible students like ourselves. We found several paintings done by some aspiring artist somewhere, a beat-up book shelf (now used for clothes), a miniature pool table and massive bean-bag chair. 

                                                      Every bachelor pad needs one...

 Yes, that is a bean-bag chair.  The covering for it is some kind of stretchy felt. I have reasons to believe it was once a cloak used by a magician or wizard of sorts...

     Those are inspirational/team unity company posters, hard hats, and amateur paintings (artist unknown).                          

                                     Can anyone spot the Sydney Opera house in this video?