Wii-eee!

On Sunday, I went to morning service at Calvary Community Church (which, I think I forgot to mention, I've been attending for the past 6 weeks) at 9:30am. After service, I went to the young adults group for Bible study / discussion. Then we had pizza and games, and I played Wii for the first time! It was fun, we played doubles tennis, although I felt myself running to hit the ball, even though it was unnecessary and irrelevant. An indicator that I am way out of shape (or just plain weak) is that the next day I woke up and my left arm was sore, from playing 10 minutes of Wii tennis! Sadness. After the young adults group, I drove home and rested for about an hour. Then we had church service in our living room, after which my aunt and I left the house for the Extreme Prophetic event with Patricia King. So basically from 9:30am to 9:00pm, I was surrounded by praise and worship, teachings of the Word and fellowship with brothers and sisters in Christ. It was a busy but wonderful, convicting and yet encouraging day!

*Newsflash* Defining moment in Theresa's life. Watched a movie in theaters by myself for the first time on Saturday! It was perfect. I had an entire row (and pretty much the entire theater) to myself, since there were only like 20 people there. I saw Enchanted, what a cute and clever movie! It was really funny and poked fun at many aspects of Disney fairy tale stories. If you haven't seen it, I highly recommend it. And the few men in the theater seemed to enjoy it too, heard some loud laughters (but I guess it could be from pain, haha).

Surprisingly, the movie was really relevant to a few things that I've been thinking about recently. The fairy tale girl meets a guy living in reality (in NYC, and I was so excited to see the scene inside the Time Warner Center). The girl believes in happily ever afters, the guy believes in practicality and reason. The girl believes in love at first sight, the guy believes in dating for a few years and making a logical choice for a spouse. So that got me thinking, if we all agree that happily ever afters don't exist in this world, is it better to keep thinking that it does and to have that dream, or is it better to compromise with reality and destroy the hope of a happily ever after? Sometimes when I watch silly fairy-tale-like movies, I get so excited and happy and hopeful for the characters, all the while knowing full well that it doesn't happen in real life. But somehow it doesn't matter, just the 'thought' that it 'could' happen in an ideal world is enough. Am I crazy? Is this stunting my ability to make practical decisions, am I too idealistic?

Bringing these thoughts into a Biblical perspective, it's clear to me that the things of this world will perish, and our lives in these bodies are but a 'dot' in eternity. Therefore, we are to set our minds on things above, not on things on the earth (Colossians 3:2), and not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen, for the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal (2 Corinthians 4:18). Our wealth, our jobs, our spouses, our children, our possessions will not go with us when we leave this earth. So does it really matter in eternity whether we lived a fairy-tale life or a practical life with compromises? As long as we've done God's will, it really doesn't, because doing God's will IS eternal! Okay, so now I have settled on the fact that life on earth is temporary, what matters in this life is doing God's will, and we live in a world where there is sin and no fairy-tales. I guess the answer is to recognize that nothing is perfect except God, do my best to follow His will, and only compromise to a point where I can still have peace about it. After all, if I believe God is telling me to do something, even if it IS a compromise when compared to 'perfection' (since we live in a fallen world), it is not really a compromise because it's FROM God. And EVEN IF (not that I plan to) I over-compromised, it's still only temporary!