Day 8. More Basketball! Friday, 25/11/2005
We had our Personal Retreat today. This consists of five hours alone with God. This is usually done in the Dog Park, which gets its name from the fact that lots of people walk their dogs there. The fact that Lisa had her lunch taken out of her mouth by a dog as she sat there last year kind of helps as well.
This time though, we had the retreat at the girls' church and the girls had theirs at ours. This is because it was too wet to go to the Dog Park.
After the Retreat, we had free time. I should have used this time to go back to our church to blog, but I stayed at the girls' church to play basketball again instead. What was I thinking?
Actually I decided I was going to get over my basketaballuphobia today, and finish what I started on Mystery Night. I didn't compromise my effort and I was pretty happy about it.
Tonight, Vanessa, Kristine, Damien and Drew were in my group.
While all thirty of us were on the way to HQ, someone almost jumped on my back. It was the guy and girl who we missed watching the sunrise with. He wanted to know if Emma was there, and I pointed ahead, but he couldn't see that she was really close by, so they left.
As we walked along the beach, after everyone in our group had remarked on my unique basketball strategy (basically, it's just: stand and wait for the ball to come to you, and let it do all the work), we had our digital picture taken by a group of people who kept telling me to part the Red Sea, and I regretted not asking them to email me the photo.
Damien and I almost had a spiritual conversation with a guy, but his Christian friend pulled him away, which I so saw coming.
We worked in the Recharge Zone for the second half of the night, and it wasn't so bad. All those thirsty faces, and all you have to do is hand them a cup, and you've helped five people in three seconds. The sunrise guy came up for a drink and to tell me it was their last night there. A few people wanted free beer, and some wanted coffee and Milo, but they had to make it themselves. One couple asked me to fill the cups for them, but they were gone at the last minute when I came back with the cups.
This time though, we had the retreat at the girls' church and the girls had theirs at ours. This is because it was too wet to go to the Dog Park.
After the Retreat, we had free time. I should have used this time to go back to our church to blog, but I stayed at the girls' church to play basketball again instead. What was I thinking?
Actually I decided I was going to get over my basketaballuphobia today, and finish what I started on Mystery Night. I didn't compromise my effort and I was pretty happy about it.
Tonight, Vanessa, Kristine, Damien and Drew were in my group.
While all thirty of us were on the way to HQ, someone almost jumped on my back. It was the guy and girl who we missed watching the sunrise with. He wanted to know if Emma was there, and I pointed ahead, but he couldn't see that she was really close by, so they left.
As we walked along the beach, after everyone in our group had remarked on my unique basketball strategy (basically, it's just: stand and wait for the ball to come to you, and let it do all the work), we had our digital picture taken by a group of people who kept telling me to part the Red Sea, and I regretted not asking them to email me the photo.
Damien and I almost had a spiritual conversation with a guy, but his Christian friend pulled him away, which I so saw coming.
We worked in the Recharge Zone for the second half of the night, and it wasn't so bad. All those thirsty faces, and all you have to do is hand them a cup, and you've helped five people in three seconds. The sunrise guy came up for a drink and to tell me it was their last night there. A few people wanted free beer, and some wanted coffee and Milo, but they had to make it themselves. One couple asked me to fill the cups for them, but they were gone at the last minute when I came back with the cups.
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