:: Sunday, September 28, 2003 ::

YES LORD YES LORD YES YES LORD!!!!!

PRAISE GOD!!!!!!!!!!!! WOOOHOOOO HALLELUJAH!!!! THERE IS NEW LIFE BORN!!!!

I'm so excited. God is so faithful. God will not stop at anything less. Praise God.

YAY YAY YAY YAY YAY YAY YAY YAY YAY

JOY JOY JOY JOY JOY JOY JOY JOY JOY

This is how we overcome! This is how we overcome! This is how we overcome! This is how we overcome!
You have turned my sorrow into dancing!
You have turned my sorrow into joy!!!

Your light broke through my night
Restored exceeding joy
Your grace fell like the rain
And made this desert live

Your hand lifted me up
I stand on higher ground
Your praise rose in my heart
and made this valley sing


Those lyrics ring so true in my heart. Truly... freedom to sing and freedom to live!!! That is life evermore and life to its fullest!!! Worshipping!!! AHHHHHHHHH

:: Jesse 11:01 PM

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And just like that, it's midway through September. Things seem different this year. My apartment looks the same, other than the fact that my chinchilla's in Toronto and isn't keeping me up at night anymore. What is it then? Why have I retreated so often to the confines of my apartment room rather than staying on campus like I have for the last 4 years and studying in Periodicals A for days on end? Is it because Western is changing at such a rapid/slow pace that the campus is continually under construction and nothing looks the same? Or is it because the thought of running home after being at school from 8-5pm is the most enticing thing ever?

2nd year dentistry is much more challenging. No longer and I expecting nice welcomes from others and congratulations and encouragements... now the crunch of my education really begins. Ack. 10 courses. 859 hours of classes. Tons of practice time. Little time to make food. Little time to talk.

The more I think of it actually, the more I'm thankful. Gosh. How much I was dying to get into dentistry a while back. How I was so thankful and jumping off the walls and praising God when I found out I got in... and how I realize that every morning I get into my green scrubs and emerge from our lockers in the basement, is another moment to give thanks.

Hopefully this understanding will help when I'm in an exhausted mood and people come up with the most genuine care and say hello and I all do is give a big sigh, show this look in my eyes and sit down.

:: Jesse 10:09 PM

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It was just like yesterday that I was here in London. A few things have changed... the campus is under major renovations and seems unfamiliar in a way. Our medicine and dentistry building is going through major construction, and there isn't a hallway that isn't either wrecked from damage during moving or under partially finished. Western is beautiful yes, but its interior is very poor.

It's very convenient now that I've got a laptop (the eMachines M5310) so I can keep in touch at school and do some work since I barely ever go home these days. It's just beginning to hit me as I started my first day of classes already that: I am entering another year of dentistry and there will be much more expected of my studies this year and the 3 years to come. I sit and wonder, where on earth will I find the time to keep in touch with friends from home? What about time with my family? How will I keep up communication with Priscilla? What about serving here in London and Asian Christian Fellowship? Where and when will my time with God be spent?

When it comes down to it, we always have a choice. The choice is seldomnly made for us though we think it is.

Time will be fading, I know this to be true. God really blessed me with a summer full of time and relaxation. I guess this year is another chance to tell him: Thanks.

:: Jesse 1:55 PM

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