So for those of you that don’t know I’m heading to China tomorrow for almost 3 weeks in order to teach high school students English and hopefully share the love of Christ. I am keeping a separate blog just for China. It can be found here:
Please check out what God is doing oversees and keep me in your prayers.
Chris
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Sorry I haven’t written anything in a long time, I have just been so busy with school…more will come on that later.
So this morning I was really convicted…I went to the grocery store to get some things and saw a man in a wheelchair wheeling through the parking lot. So i though about stopping and asking if he needed help getting to the store cuz he was trying to roll uphill, but of course i just pushed that thought aside and kept driving. I justified to myself that he is fine and doesn’t need my help rolling because he’s done it for a while. So anyways…I finish shopping and am walking back to my car and i see the same wheelchair guy talking to some guy out of the corner of my eye. So as I am walking back to my car i hear somebody say “Good morning sir” and I know it is the wheelchair dude. So now I am torn, do I acknowledge him because he is probably wanting money (Keep in mind that I came from Waco, where whenever I went anybody people were walking around in parking lots asking me for money for numerous reasons and i just ignored them because they were there ALL the time) Needless to say I didn’t turn around and got in my car and drove off. As i was driving home i felt this conviction that I should have turned and talked even if he did want money it’s not like i couldn’t do without a couple dollars…
This could have been a perfect time to help somebody and share the love of God. That is not done here in Colorado, sometimes i feel like it is a Godless place. But i think how can it be when i look out my window and see the mountains covered in snow, that He made! Anywho…then I got to thinking about my own condition, maybe my heart really is that selfish that i don’t really pay attention to those that are in need or i don’t know. If you know m i feel like I am very selfless when it comes to my friends and I will go out of my way to do things for them, thats good and all…but that is not what I am called to do: I am called to help and love on those that are less fortunate than I. (Matthew 25:35, Proverbs 28:27, etc…) So this just makes me think that maybe I am not the person that I want to be; i really dropped the ball on this one. And it’s not that fact that i just kept walking, it’s the fact that i consciously did it. That i thought about helping and then didn’t…just something for me to chew on
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So today is just one of those days…That is really all I can say about it.
I was sleeping pretty well this morning when i heard this horrible noise. I woke up around and was scared, i looked around my room but nothing seemed out-of-place, and then it dawned on me…look outside the window, maybe that is where it came from. I did and this is what i saw:
Pretty crazy eh?? I don’t know what happened here, but all I heard was this lady get out of the car and yell “I got in an accident!!!” I couldn’t help but laugh. So it was a shocking but funny morning. Of course I had to watch them, see all 700 police cars come, and the wrecker haul her car off. The red car is still sitting there so who knows what will happen with that…i think I saw the police lady leave a card in the window or something, but I’d hate to come back from a vacation and find my car like this. So the lady ran over the little median thing, a stop sign and a sprinkler, then hit the car…it is still just crazy that that would happen! So that is the start of my morning haha, it was very exciting.
School is going well, just long and hard really. I am being transformed into a researcher/scientist, rather than just being a student and the extent of my knowledge being what is in a textbook. I am having to figure out what I don’t know and learn by reading scientific papers. And I have to come up with a new, novel, and significant contribution to science by next Tuesday, so be praying that my mind can think and that.
Lots of other things are happening but I don’t have time to go into them at the moment, I need to finish eating my cookies and read some for school…hopefully I will have some time to actually write what is happening/going on in my life besides just the surface level day-to-day things. Because God is really doing some great things in my life and I want to share.
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Well just a little blogging done this weekend, since I will have some time:
Friday
Well Friday was sorta a blur, it started off a really bad day because we had our first every paper quiz (over a paper we read) and I forgot my badge, i need that in order to park on campus and get into my labs. So i remembered about 1/2 way to school, so i decided to turn around and get it and then got stuck in an elementary school drop off zone. So i decided it wasn’t worth it and would just park in visitor parking. I parked there, paid $5, then walked almost all the way across campus and got to my seat, huffing and puffing, just as the prof handed me a quiz. So it turned out ok, just not that I wanted haha. The rest of the day was just a blur, some football, and a trip to the store. The most memorable thing was staying up and seeing this fool punch this dude and end his football career because he is suspended his entire senior year, he was a pretty good RB also…:
Youtube video was removed sry…
Saturday
This was such a great day! I have been waiting for football for so long, and its finally here! My Bears won, and started their bowl berth off on a great game! SIC’EM BEARS!! So i watched maybe 5-6 games on Saturday and enjoyed it so much…thats about all I can say…except i love college football!
Sunday
This day was AMAZING! It is such a contrast (and much needed) to Saturday. My friend Lindsey invited me up to Estes Park, where her family was camping all weekend. So i drove the short 1.45 hrs to get there and enjoyed it sooooo much. When i got there we went to actual town and sat and read/talked at a tiny coffee shop. Then before lunch we went on a short hike to some lake in the middle of the mountains…it was stunning. These are the reasons that I love CO.
Here is me in front of the lake/mountains. To me it almost looks like a fake backdrop…but it isn’t! 
Here the Aspens are already starting to change color. Can you just imagine a full mountain full of these yellow wonders?
Just another cool pic of the mountains.
So we then went back and had lunch, had a devotional time, and lazied around the campsite talking. During devotional time Lindsey’s mom prepared some verses related to being young, they were all really good, but one of them stuck out to me that I’ve never given too much thought about. It just reminds me how lucky I am to grow up with Christ and what great blessing my parents were that I could go through trials/temptations and learn to be self-disciplined when I am young and more pliable than I am now or even at further years. The Lord has blessed me in many ways that He is reminding me daily:
It is good for a man to bear the yoke while he is young ~Lamentations 3:27
Then we went back to Estes Park and walked around the town. Of course, when we were as far away from the car it starts raining haha. My typical luck. But we made it to the car without getting tooo wet. Then had a wondering dinner consisting of grilled shrimp, salad, the sweetest corn I’ve ever had, and some grilled veggies. Yummy! They really taught me how to “camp in style” 
We saw some elk in a field at dusk. (Tried to get pictures but coulnd’t get close enough). Saw a sorta sunset and had am amazing super warm camp fire.
The smores were amazing, and there was a consensus that when they refer to “mana from heaven” in the Bible…they were really talking about smores! You better believe it! haha. So i stayed and talked/sat around the campfire until about 9:30ish then started the long drive back home. I think it was a pretty amazing day! And def needed after all the TV of Saturday.
Monday
Well today has just started, I got to sleep in and so far I have just written what you have just read. I do have a quiz tomorrow so I will start studying for that later. But hope that your long weekend was great and that you got some great rest and relaxation in!
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I started school on Monday! I can say with confidence (right now, ask me sometime later) that this is where I’m supposed to be right now. I have spent 8 hours in class already, and many many more sitting in my 6th floor office distracting myself looking past downtown Denver to the Mountains. I am taking 14 hours this semester with two different courses:
Sounds exciting doesn’t it?? So far it hasn’t been too bad. It has been lots of reading (textbook and papers), some review of bio fundamentals, and memorizing things I forgot. So even though I spent 11 hours at school the first day I haven’t spent that much time since then. It will be work, but it is super nice to having something to do and somewhere to be. I have read 3..well…2 really interesting papers and 1 structural biology paper that I didn’t find interesting at all:
In the new PhD students there are 4 (including me) in the Computational Bioscience Program and then 64 total first year students. In my program I am by-far the youngest one, everybody else in 30+, which is great because they have so much more life experience and wisdom for me to learn from, but I fit in great with the rest of the students, most of them just out of undergrad and a lot like Baylor (in 60:40girls:boys) so that plays good in my favor haha. So I am still getting to know and see where many people are from and what they are interested in. I have made it through 3 days of school so far and am still smiling, so that is a great feeling!
So in non-school news: Labor day weekend is coming up and COLLEGE FOOTBALL STARTS THIS WEEK! I am super excited for that, and my DVR will be full of glorious HD football games. I also have amazing tickets to the CU/CSU game this Sunday night in Boulder if I can find anybody to go with me…(anybody wanna go? please?) Other than looking forward to weekend I’ve been going to Grace Chapel. We went camping this last weekend and I have gotten to know many of the people there and see that God is doing some great things in my life and relationships so far. There will be more posts about that soon, get excited about those hehe.
I do apologize for the boringness(?) of this post, but I have to explain what I am doing to at least let people know what I’m doing, but I’m sure it will become more limited because nobody really wants to hear about that kinda stuff. So i just have some great words to leave you with this time:
Sic’em Bears!!!
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Well needless to say this week has been a long one already (please remind me that I grew tired of having nothing to do in the next couple of weeks) , I am super ready for school to start next Monday. But i finally feel like i am on track to start school with paperwork, all of the administration tasks, and what feels like many different hoops to jump through. Friday we have a little get together and just a session with the new students to answer any last questions and get our offices set up, so once that happens I will be fully ready and every unknown about school will almost be known. So yesterday it felt sooo much like Christmas for me. I got an e-mail from KT and she had a gift for me, i just had to come and pick it up…so here are my gifts:
So here they are, I finally got my new laptop with a lock/case/amazing little wireless mouse. I also got the textbook for my first semester marathon 12 hour class. So I could get used to this grad school life, because I payed $0 for all of it, so i am super excited I am still setting up and getting used to the track pad, but I am loving it so far! Some more pictures of the beauty are below (and it really is a beauty):
I am pretty excited I will be coming camping this weekend somewhere in the mountains. I am looking forward to getting away into God’s beautiful creation and getting to know some new people.
I just want to leave y’all with this:
Praise the Lord, all you nations; extol Him, all you peoples.
For great is his love toward us, and the faithfulness of the Lord endures forever.
PRAISE THE LORD! ~Psalms 117
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I forgot to put up a picture of the view off my balcony, since if I’ve talked to you recently I have mentioned it and how much I loved spending time on it. So here is a picture of the sunset a couple nights ago, you can see some mountains in the background and I think I waited too long to take the picture so the picture does not do it justice, but you can get an idea of the view:
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Good morning! Just slept so good last night i think I would have looked something like this:
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So it has now been a week since my parents have left. I have gotten to love the weather already and sleep with my windows and patio door open and only use the A/C from about 1-6ish., so that has been nice. I have eaten pretty good since I’ve been watching to food network and also made some messes in the kitchen. (also learning that a food processor and a blender do NOT server the same purpose).
I made several trips up to campus this week to get numerous things in order and after many phone calls/emails I was able to complete my on-line orientation. I also found out that school starts the 31st. I’m not sure what made me think it started the 9th of sept., i guess it was just no information, but it does start the in a little more than a week. I am excited and ready for it to start. I am still unsure of what classes I am taking because of lack of communication on that end also. People in CO are much more laid back/it could also be just people in charge of the grad school or even a combination of both. Anywho…
Nothing really big happened this week except I finished reading my textbook, yep…you heard that right, i finished reading a textbook. I was supposed to be reading a book by one of my professors all summer but i didn’t read as much as I should so I had tons to read. So after almost 3-4 hrs a day of reading I finished it It felt really good to and now this next week I don’t have as much to do but prepare myself for school. So now i am reading something that interests everybody. I am reading about love, ooo…haha, a crazy love! I crazy love that my God has for me. I bought it awhile ago and am just now getting to it.
Tomorrow I am going to go to “faith day” at Coors field, kinda ironic, but there will be a Mercy me concert after the baseball game, so I am excited about that. Hopefully I will have some things to write about soon except me just reading haha.
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I finally got around to it tonight, so here are some pics of my new place. Hope you enjoy them, let me know what you think!
I have more to say…but I think I’ll save it for another post and just let this one be about my apartment!
~Chris
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