The only plan on the agenda for today was to stay at home and wait for the delivery of the new chair. The chair didn't come until about 3pm...but first, started the morning with breakfast and (surprisingly) a time of prayer. I definitely needed it. Struggled quite a bit with the coming Bible study, with the topic God is Creator... Slept a bit, woken up by a phone call telling me the chair was here, and that was great. Tried to assemble the chair, which was a partial success initially, but got stuck in the final stages when I couldn't connect the back piece with the sitting area piece...took a rest, and eventually figured out that I should be putting a metal plate under another metal plate instead of over it...(heh, that was too hard to describe). In any case, I did assemble this thingie and now I have a spiffy new rocket-esque chair! Nice... After that, helped Kai move some stuffs to his place, had dinner, and that was about it for the day. I have to say, there was mysterious joy throughout this day...and I still haven't made a decision on the wedding puzzle!

Random notes...

• Another thing that I found similar between my mom and Leonard...they both call me by the wrong name. Mom often calls me by mesister's name, or my uncle's name, and Leonard calls me David...
• As I'm thinking about how hard it is to follow God's call for me to give up my obsession with violence, I often heard questions that are quite similar to this famous one from the Bible..."Has God indeed said, 'You shall not eat of every tree of the garden'?" I often couldn't identify this as the start of a temptation, hence I still fail... But God is faithful, and He still forgives me and loves me when I confess my sins.
• I was watching Willingdon's service online, and the call-to-worship-type verse for the day was Colossians 3:16-17, and I loved this passage...
  

  Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him.

• Boy, I haven't exercised for the longest time...
• I'm usually very curious as to who would read the stuffs I wrote here, even though I do write this as kind of a journal recording for myself, things to look back on in the future...but I don't mind people reading it, at the same time I don't advertise for it, either... Anyway, a little bit of rusted detective work done today yielded a result that has shocked me a bit...if the result is correct, that is. I'm writing this paragraph in vague form for no particular reason...
• New TV season starts today...with lots of news coverage of the fifth anniversary of the terrorist attacks...which I have trouble watching. In the game show world...Millionaire was ok. Jeopardy went HD and I don't like it. I had a hard time figuring out who rang in, and the text for the clue had irregular spacing, and there were more inbalances and stuff...then again, I'm kind of picky on these tiny these... I was looking forward to Family Feud, but the nbc channel cancelled it, and I could only watch it briefly on the extremely noisy and snowy omni. The new set looks great, but the host was a little slow in the timing... Anyway, I really shouldn't be watching TV...
• So about the Bible study this Saturday...this would be the first time that I try to prepare one in a while (about half a year, I think). I was actually quite unsettled about the topic of God is Creator...I just don't know what to include or which direction to go, and other than the simple stuffs, I don't understand the deeper things. I was quite worried. But then God reminded me to trust Him, seek Him, and rely on Him, instead of trying to do things on my own. That lifted the burden quite a bit, even though I'm still not entirely ready to let go. This would be a lesson of faith that I will need to learn quickly as I attempt this comeback to serve God in this area.

I'm grateful to God for...

• giving me the patience in waiting for the new chair, and then assembling it successfully;
• reminding me about the lesson of faith in preparing the Bible study;
• bringing me to prayers;
• the opportunity to help out Kai and Sophie again; and
• guiding me in all the thoughts that's been going on in my mind, and directing them towards Him.