My Mountain Trip
My friend Julia (used to be a nun in the Vatican and later in N.Y. and NJ.!!) and I drove up to the cool (both meanings of cool at this time) to take in a few sessions at the missionary conference. She doesn't drive (flunked the test 4 times so called it enough!) so I did all the driving, which I enjoy. After the Wed. night service we followed a mutual friend to her home where we were joyfully welomed for the 2 nights. BUT that drive was about an hour from Karuizawa! I though we'd never get there. Always seems longer at night. Sometime I'll tell you about Julia...a talented, vivacious Italian lady.
The main speaker was Dr. Lu Diaz, and he now pastors in Chico, Ca., and before that for 13-14 years at the Wheaton Ev. Free Ch. His wife spoke at the afternoon ladies meeting and both were very good and relevant.
Mr. Diaz got his points across with great humor. He spoke once on Revival, which is a subject I'm always interested in. Talked about a revival that hit Wheaton College in the early '90's when the kids were lined up at the podium confessing sin. I really related with that, because only once in my life have I been in revival, and that was my first year at Prairie. At that time, too, kids lined up for days....confessing sin, making restitution by mail, etc. It's something you can't explain because it is a supernatural work of the Holy Spirit. And it was quiet. Like you were the only one in the meeting. The next year they had the same speaker, same set-up, but no repetition of that revival the year before.
However, I was never the same. Up until then I think I was running away from God. Kinda like, just get me out of this place so I can go on with my life! After that I remember waking up in the morning and thinking, "Wow, this peace I've got, and here I thougt that if I really sold out to the Lord I'd be miserable!" I doubt I would have become a missionary in Japan had it not been for that revival.
A sidenote....I wrote my parents asking their forgiveness....(Mom wrote: I hope it lasts! ha) and my Fairview H.S. Principal and found out later that he was so touched he read my letter to the whole school! I wouldn't have wanted to go home in the spring had I known that!!!!!!!
Anyway, back to the conference. Dr. Diaz honored his wife so beautfully and he added this joke (which you may have heard in connection with a well-known couple (!)....he said a mayor and his wife stopped at a gas station and while he went in to pay, his wife was talking to the station attendant there outside. When they drove off he asked her what they had stuff to talk about and she said, well, that she used to date that guy. He said "Aren't you glad you aren't the wife of a gas station attendant?"
She said, "Had I married him I would have been married to the mayor!"
And he told another about a lady driver who was honking her horn at the car ahead and being so obnoxious that a nearby policeman stepped up, arrested her and took her in to the police staton. When all was over, they told her they actually thought she had a stolen car because there were stickers all over it..."Jesus is my Lord," etc., and a silver fish symbol!!!!!!!!!!! Her actions didn't fit the stickers!
One special saying, "Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the mighty arm of God." So good for us to remember.
The main speaker was Dr. Lu Diaz, and he now pastors in Chico, Ca., and before that for 13-14 years at the Wheaton Ev. Free Ch. His wife spoke at the afternoon ladies meeting and both were very good and relevant.
Mr. Diaz got his points across with great humor. He spoke once on Revival, which is a subject I'm always interested in. Talked about a revival that hit Wheaton College in the early '90's when the kids were lined up at the podium confessing sin. I really related with that, because only once in my life have I been in revival, and that was my first year at Prairie. At that time, too, kids lined up for days....confessing sin, making restitution by mail, etc. It's something you can't explain because it is a supernatural work of the Holy Spirit. And it was quiet. Like you were the only one in the meeting. The next year they had the same speaker, same set-up, but no repetition of that revival the year before.
However, I was never the same. Up until then I think I was running away from God. Kinda like, just get me out of this place so I can go on with my life! After that I remember waking up in the morning and thinking, "Wow, this peace I've got, and here I thougt that if I really sold out to the Lord I'd be miserable!" I doubt I would have become a missionary in Japan had it not been for that revival.
A sidenote....I wrote my parents asking their forgiveness....(Mom wrote: I hope it lasts! ha) and my Fairview H.S. Principal and found out later that he was so touched he read my letter to the whole school! I wouldn't have wanted to go home in the spring had I known that!!!!!!!
Anyway, back to the conference. Dr. Diaz honored his wife so beautfully and he added this joke (which you may have heard in connection with a well-known couple (!)....he said a mayor and his wife stopped at a gas station and while he went in to pay, his wife was talking to the station attendant there outside. When they drove off he asked her what they had stuff to talk about and she said, well, that she used to date that guy. He said "Aren't you glad you aren't the wife of a gas station attendant?"
She said, "Had I married him I would have been married to the mayor!"
And he told another about a lady driver who was honking her horn at the car ahead and being so obnoxious that a nearby policeman stepped up, arrested her and took her in to the police staton. When all was over, they told her they actually thought she had a stolen car because there were stickers all over it..."Jesus is my Lord," etc., and a silver fish symbol!!!!!!!!!!! Her actions didn't fit the stickers!
One special saying, "Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the mighty arm of God." So good for us to remember.
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