RICE rally
Sunday, August 24, 2008
I went to RICE rally yesterday with my cousins Lisa and Ben, and my brother. It was pretty fun, and especially cool how I had good seats near the front xD Ben's friends are so nice; they gave up they seats for Lisa, Laurence and I! hehehe Well, it was where Ben's yg Reef were sitting...and I got pegged by them lol =D
The Mexican wave with our mobile phones was cool :) and the beach ball thing was funny cos it hit my brother's head at one point lolol... I briefly saw Vicky, Irvin, Shell, Angela, Sarah and Spaz before the rally actually started and I had to make my way back to my seat in the dark T_T
Yeah, it was funny and entertaining =D Spaz went up to represent her youth group and Sarah (the macfields Sarah) was up there too!
Mark Driscoll gave us a really long preach about what Jesus had to go through for us and showed us a video of how painful the crucifixion was for Jesus. It was really gory packed and pretty gross to watch..
I guess the purpose of showing us the vid was for us to understand how much Jesus suffered, in order to save us all.
Ryan (from yg) was singing up there too! [the one in red] AND Ben's bestie Brian.
There has never been a time where i've known so many people performing/presenting on stage in a public function before XD
Nam and Dewey were up there too, and we got a zoomed in shot of Dewey's eye LOL .. other things were presented but I cant remember now...
Afterwards, I met up with Nick and we went to the Rice lounge. I met David's brother who looks a lot like him "what can you say, we're brothers" hahah
Anyways, I didn't pray to surrender my life to Jesus and become a Christian when Mark said the prayer so I was questioned by Andrew, Rebecca, Ben and Dewey. I actually felt kinda interrogated by them, even though it was probably unintentional..
They didn't ask Lisa cos she was eating jelly beans. I should've done that.
So what happened was that they kept pressing on why I didn't surrender myself etcetc. Dewey then asked 'What are you waiting for?' and that question really got to me, because to be honest, I don't even know what I'm waiting for - it just hasn't happened for me. A while ago, Ben attempted to describe to me his experience of knowing, the moment when he was 'saved' ... and though I wasn't expecting it to happen to me tonight, I was still hoping to see something extraordinary. But to be truly honest, even taking away all the barriers between me and surrendering my life to Jesus and devoting myself completely to God (including my mum not wanting it), seeing it at this point, I don't think I will commit.
But I will still go to yg, and maybe I'll be convinced one day. Maybe one day. Anything can happen, right? Doubt it though .
Then I went to the Expo to my yg Access and then to Ben's yg Reef and briefly met up with Vicky and we saw Alvinn as well ahahaha. I want the Access flag!
It was pretty late when we headed home...and I'm not use to sitting at the back of a van anymore since my old van was sold a few years ago, so I got carsick/dizzy. My uncle took us home, and also took Maggie and B. Diep home too. I was really tired and hungry; I think we stopped at subway but I was almost dead from tiredness. When my brother and I got home, I made instant noodles and then went to sleep.
Okay, so I'll admit- there was one particular moment that really stuck to me and i'll probably be thinking about it for a while. A group of actors performed a skit on stage about how God created life and how God's own creation rejected him and got further away from him with all those nasty things that ruin you (drugs, money, greed, vanity, etc). Anyway, the person is eventually driven to suicide consideration and just before it happens, God saves them. I can't really retell the performance that well lol, but when I watched it, I really felt something. I don't know... I guess I was really touched. I cried so much after it hahahha LOLS.
The performance probably has a much deeper meaning that I dont really understand, but yeahh. Maybe I'll understand it one day. lol im kinda probably not making much sense to the people who are reading this but yeah, I just wanted to write it down somewhere.
I really liked the song they used too. It was a Lifehouse song (recognise their voices hahahha). I think it's called 'Everything'.
Overall, I'm glad Ben took me to this event :)
Labels: city, food, friends, tired
