So first of all, I just want to mention how I watched
SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE. Freaking amazing movie. It rather reminded me of the Philippines and Pacquiao. It was a good movie to watch with my parents, who immigrated from a third-world country. It's a movie you just HAVE to watch, because it makes you think about poverty, third-world countries, the slums. Not only that but it also involves a love story :P haha but serious. You wouldn't regret. Great story, great cinematography, great actors. WATCH IT. NOW. :]
So
yesterday I stayed all day at my cousins' house, not knowing I was going to sleep there. My parents and their mom were at
Las Vegas, me not going due to my duty to do community service, and my underage. Bonded with the cousins. And
I'm fat. I need to stop eating so much. And I was messing around on paint and then my cousins called me an artist for this: HAHAAH
So I slept there. Woke up to a yummy American breakfast x] and also little Jamie's annoyed comments on her dad's accent, and her dad's sarcastic comments on her excessive talking. It's FUNNY! x) Haha wow Jamie's whitewashed.
Anyways, I went to their church, and I saw Celestine there, who did not see me because she was zoned out. My cousins kept scaring me, telling me I'd have to go up to the front and speak 'cause I was a visitor. Didn't happen. THANK YOU. Bahah. But I learned from the sermon! Here it is folkss:
3 H's in Christianity/What is Religion?:
Head
Heart
Hands
Head:
Religion is in the mind. You can't go to church, sit there, take the bread and wine, and leave, thinking that's enough. You have to actually think about it, the reason and understanding behind all this. You have to know what you're doing, why are you doing the things you do?
Heart:
Religion is in the heart. It's your emotions. Like, even though, say, you don't do something bad, it doesn't mean simply thinking something bad is any better. A lot of people don't murder or steal, but simply thinking about doing it is just as bad. The thought comes from the heart. A kind heart wouldn't think of such things would it?
Hands:
Religion is in your hands. It's what you do. Your actions. You can't go to church, sit there, take the bread and wine, and leave, later on caught talking in vain and disrespect, or disobeying your parents or something, thinking that you're still Christian. Religion is a way of life. It's the way you live. What you do. How you do it.
James 1:22-24- 22 Be doers of the word and not hearers only, deluding yourselves.
- 23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks at his own face in a mirror.
- 24 He sees himself, then goes off and promptly forgets what he looked like.
and then I found it
ironic how I watched
Slumdog Millionaire the day I was given this:
James 1:27"
Religion that is pure and undefiled before God and the Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their affliction and to keep oneself unstained by the world."
I wasn't sure about the going-to-a-Christian-church thing since I haven't been to one ever since I've been so aware of my religion... like, this past year. But it was good. I needed it. And thus the enhanced faith.
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So after church, my parents and my aunt were back from Las Vegas.
We went to
Buca di Beppo at Brea to celebrate
my mother's birthday.
Images taken with a sucky camera phone:
After that we went to the
Brea Mall. We walked around and window shopped. We went to the
Apple Store and saw Greg from church and Mustang Update! Then we went on all the laptops and put our YouTube MourningSunshineBand channel on each of them. HAHAHA = more views ! x]
Then Mikee started dancing the Single Ladies dance in the middle of nowhere and we planned another video. Next time! They said they gotta practice the moves first x]
Then we just chilled:
