Poetry Slam, Testimony, Fall Break, and other things

If I think about it, I could just be smart and put tags on my blog and have a more creative title. However, I think that the title can be a gauge of what the post will be about, so I'm not too upset with that. I think the creative titles will come in the future but for now, we'll just leave it.

My partner and I won a Poetry Slam earlier this week. A Poetry Slam is a competition in which poets get up in front of an audience, perform an original poem (or in this case just a poem), and receive scores from judges based on how they perform. Since I read with expression and showed off my acting skills, we won! It was a great poem too. I may post it for future reference. I didn't get anything for winning, just the satisfaction of being number one. Which is fine with me and I'm assuming my partner as well.

I decided to do something different with Life-groups this week. We've been going over the Case for Christ and just finished up the section about Jesus. That section included questions like, "Did Jesus think he was God?" "Was he crazy to make that claim?" and "How does Jesus match up to the identity of the Messiah?" I thought that this would be a good point to say, "Okay we have the answers here, but what does that matter? We know about Jesus, but how does that affect our lives?" So, I gave my testimony about what it meant in my life. I know that God was with me when I did it because I had a large number of students show up and for 20 minutes, they gave me their full attention...You know how almost impossible that is with Middle School?!? It was amazing.

I am on Fall Break now. We actually had an extension for fall break because of what happened at MTSU. There is a lot of details to this so if you want to read about it, go to www.mtsu.edu and click on the link at the bottom. It will tell you what's going on. I did have tutoring, a project, and Junior Achievement (thank goodness I have learned patience) those two days, so it wasn't exactly time off. But I didn't have to go to class, so it saved me money on gas! I really didn't mean for that to rhyme. My apologies.

Other than that, everything is going well. I'm really busy with schoolwork, so having days completely off is really nice. I also was able to do stuff with the College Ministry like our Dinner and a Movie last night. That's where we watch a movie, have dinner in a theme of that movie, and discuss biblical principles. Last night was The Legend of Bagger Vance. I joked around with John saying, "I hope there's enough symbolism in this movie to talk about!" If you haven't seen the movie, there's a lot in there.

Well, I need to be going. Have a great rest of the day!