Thoughts, Thinkings, and Ideas!
Monday, December 26, 2005
If you've ever heard me talk about it (Unionville Alliance Church). You must think I'm a bit obsessed at how good it is. After last year's "The Christmas Tale" with musical numbers that blew me away I really looked forward to this year. Although the expectations were extremely high. It was a good followup. Not as good as last year but still very good.
This year, it was a retelling of the Mary and Joseph Christmas story from the perspective of Mary and Joseph in some love story, in the 21st century. A very interesting take on the leap of faith they took and the trust in something they couldn't understand.
Now, I think the people doing it are just too good. I really felt like either this was the most talented musical church EVER. (Which actually might be true it seems). Or maybe they pay actors and dancers from other places to perform for this Christmas musical. So... I googled as much as I could on the UAC musical. I still don't know who the people were acting in the musical because they didn't even have their names in the programs. And if anyone can actually tell me if these are real church members... it'd really resolve a lot of my curiousity. At any rate... some interesting things I found out.
1. Almost all of the info I found posted about UAC.. ended up from people I already know. (Fellowship, or other chinese churches. Apparently blogging and posting stuff is common for chinese people, but not so common for others such as people at their church)
2. Well I did find an interesting blog post by someone about "the Christmas Tale". The one with the songs that blew me away. It was from a non Christian... and when I mean Non Christian I mean, someone who works in a bar, very skeptical of the faith, and paranoid of the whole church concept. She had gone to watch one of the waiters that worked with her perform.. since he was a head prophet or something in the musical. At any rate, I would have expected her to rave about how amazing the songs were. How great the insight of the story was. The great costumes. The amazing special affects. BUT, in her post... she said she laughed at singing these carols. The music was nice. However, she talked about one thing for almost the entire post on her experience. That was when she came in. A woman greeted her, shook her hand, and said "I hope you have a very Merry Christmas. " She said that impacted her a lot. She didn't trust people, but this woman invited her in, and meant it. This person was genuine in caring about her and she sensed it. And THAT's what blew her away. Not the music, NOT the amazing singing, NOT the sets, NOT the costumes, but the greeter when she first came in. That was the memory that most lingered in her mind from the experience. Now isn't that something.
Monday, December 12, 2005
Asked/Forced to of my friends to share their story of how they both ended up here in TO. And it was pretty incredible at all the small things God did to put them here together. It's interesting how they said that when they tell their Christian friends, they realize it's all through of God's providence. And when they tell Non Christian friends it's no big deal and just a nice coincidence.
I wonder in my own life how many little things I let go as coincidence and neglect to realize God's providence. There are tons of things you don't really see as blessings. In fact many of the blessings you might see as curses. How I wish I had the eyes to see beyond what I want to see?
Snow
I love snow... but not when I'm driving uphill to work and causes me to be late by 2 hours. I don't blame the snow though... I blame gravity. Or maybe friction.
Grad Night
Good time of sharing. I'm going to miss the grads. I don't feel the sadness I used to when people graduated though. It's more of happiness that they get a chance to grow even more to where they will be going. Perhaps in the past I cared more that they were leaving me behind and I wouldn't see them anymore, but now as I'm approaching graduation I realize how they feel.
MSN
Curse or blessing? How do people survive without it? How do people survive with it?
