I have been excited to attend my classes every wednesday and thursday morning since we've started. I planned not to take 8am classes since I know it would be a struggle for me to wake up earlier than usual which I wasn't used to anymore.
But anyway, on my way to the class this morning, I passed by 711 at the basement of Imperial to buy stuffed pandesal since I already brought my coffee. When I was about to leave the cashier said, "Wait ma'am, your free coffee." And her assistant gave me a cup of caramel macchiato. What a day to start! I wonder if there'll be more surprises from the Lord...
MISSIONS. When I entered FBC I knew God is calling me to missions but I forgot about that when I fell in love with greek. I was thinking to get Biblical Studies in the seminary. But now, just today, I realized God brought me back to that call to be a missionary, taking up Inter-cultural and Urban Studies at ATS. God's plans are the best talaga!
I'm taking up World Major Religion every thursday. We've just finished our discussion about HInduism today discussing about the video of a true to life story in Nepal about the living goddess they believe to be the incarnate of their goddes. From there we moved on to Buddhism which actually branched out of Hinduism so they've got similar beliefs about karma and samsara or reincarnation.
We always have interesting discussions because we tried to fully comprehend their beliefs. We tried to understand them based on what we believe which our professor said we could not. We have to empty our minds first of our own set of beliefs, especialy when we tried to understand their view of life since they have no concept of death and heaven.
One thing I noticed about these religions we have studied so far: People operate by their own efforts and their fate is based on that. There is no free gift we call GRACE as Christians and that is one thing I am thankful to the Lord. For without Him, I am nothing.
