Mytie

Friday was a very productive day. I got a lot of things done that I needed to do, and just really made the most of my day. Friday nights are always our social nights. The theme was Mytie. Earlier that week the team girls came by and picked up a tie from each guy. They were then given randomly to the girls room. The girls room of 4-5 girls then got to choose which tie they wanted, that would best match with a dress, or which one they liked, or who's tie they thought it might belong to. Then when the girls come down on all the waiting boys wearing one of our ties. It was exciting because everyone wanted to know who their dates were. Of course mine was Natalie, all the couples here on project were strategically put together (my thanks goes out to Katie Bowman on this one). So our room of 4 guys escorted 5 beautiful ladies (one of our guys had 2 girls) to Bonefish Grill for dinner. This is Natalie's and my favorite chain restaurant. The food was great, and then we headed to the Sleep Inn for a dance. The hotel was nice enough to let us use one of their "ball rooms" for the dance. Let me tell you, the set up was sweet. They had tables and chairs in the back, a dj booth playing great music, and the back was full of food. A chocolate fondue fountain with grapes, strawberries, pineapple, and so on. They had two big double stacked cookie cakes that said "SBP 2010 Mytie", and a whole arrangement of other snack foods including spinach dip, which I love. We danced the night away, it was awesome. Earlier on project I learned how to shag, which is a kind of dance, and Natalie and I looked pretty good out there. There was some slow dancing and just good ol fun dancing like cotton eye Joe. All in all it was a great night. By the time we got back to the hotel, just before midnight, we all went straight to bed, and the internet was down because I was going to write this all last night. It was cool how some of this all played into some of the scripture that I had read earlier today. 1 Corinthians 12:12-30, I had a lot of time and spent a long time with God. I'll wrap it up into a small paragraph apposed to writing all I have or we will both be here all day. It explains how we are all one body, together, in Christ Jesus. How is is made up of many, and that no one is less than another. God arranged us, He chose each and everyone of us, and made us the way we are for a reason. If we were all a single member, their would be no body. Many parts, still one body. Just like the human body is made up of tons of parts, and together it makes one. Their needs to be diversity among us, or we would all be the same, it is according to God's plan and we should not question Him. We all have a need for one another, and none are weak, none are less honorable, and all should be modest. No one is more superior than another one of Gods children, don't devalue another, it is wrong. God composed the body to compliment one another, make us stronger. Their should not be division, but the opposite. When one suffers we all suffer, and visa versa. This is how I felt last night. Probably for the first time ever, in my entire life. This is the first time I have been in a room where I truly believe that everyone is my brother and sister in Christ and that I will be seeing all of them in heaven. That is what made the night so spectacular to me. You could dance like an idiot and no one made fun of you, it was really cool to some some very extreme introverts really come out of their shells. Why? because they felt comfortable, and apart of the entire body of Christ, not as an individual. I really understood and experienced the meaning of true fellowship. Let me tell you, it was awesome. Please pray that I will continue, in my near future, to have that body of Christ around me as much as possible. So that I can grow closer and stronger to Christ, in order to reflect Him.

Serving Him,

Daniel