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Name: nick-o-li
Birthday: 3/16/1989
Gender: Male
Interests: God (above all else), soccer, christian rock bands (relient k and much more), music, friends, legos, cartoons, little umbrellas that fancy restaurants serve in drinks, and climbing stuff (the list could go on... but why waste space?)
Expertise: building towers of random objects, trampoline-ing, dreaming, and saving the world (as spiderman ofcourse)
...thats about it...my life in a nut-shell
Occupation: Student
Industry: Nonprofit
Message: message me
Member Since:
3/31/2005
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| yeah i just feel like writing.
i've had some good times these first couple weeks so i wanted to write some down so i wouldn't forget...
the first couple weeks of classes were alright. they have included frontlines, pop-ice, hang out with trey, tony, will and roomies, parkour jams, tubing, ice-cream socials, soccer, b-stud pizza party, nexus homegroup, cru, froshmore, gobbler fest, alpacas, game night, concessions, PK's, and sadly homework.
the past couple days i felt really joyful, it was sweet. today though i'm just tired i felt like the joy got lost somewhere. its crazy to think that my joy can be complete. joy just feels so good, and for it to be complete seems like it would last forever you know? gets me excited.
random verse:
psalm 18:29 ...with my God I can scale a wall.
parkour baby!! haha, out of context but it works.
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| i have lost my wisdom (teeth). if you could call anything i've learned wisdom. i'll have to rely on the wisdom God gives me now, thats where true wisdom is at.
so far events of the summer have included soccer, hanging out, bike riding, cherry picking/baking, hiking, nlcf bible study, mulching, cleaning, and the mix.
i think its interesting how God doesn't do things in line with the pattern of this world. i mean my whole life, i've learned to recognize patterns in math, in socializing, and in all aspects of life really. i've been taught to think things just work a certain way. thinking out of the box isn't really too far out of the box. its crazy how angry society gets when things don't line up with their patterns. kind of like how the pharisees had the whole religion thing down to a tee and when Jesus came they got so upset that he wasn't following the rules of their pattern, that they missed the whole point that he was God. i don't think i want an overdose of the wisdom of patterns. give me the wisdom that glows of truth and that calls to go the opposite way sometimes, i guess i'll need courage to go with that too.
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| I'm back in the Glen. My freshman year is finished and it feels nice. Its been a good year, I think I've grown a lot. Since last post, Helen and Phil visited Tech and we got to hang out, hike and eat at the homeplace. Then exams came and I feel like I finished strong. I got to stay a day after classes were over to camp with Matt, Chris, Mary, and Rishi. We had a blast hiking, camping, relaxing, talking, swimming in cold water and mudsliding during a thunderstorm. Now I'm just mulching, cleaning, working, and chichoin' until France.
question: can you have sacrifice without selflessness? Is the heart of sacrifice selflessness?
yep. have a nice day.
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| Its been a while. In the past couple weeks I've had a pretty full load of activities. I got to go to go to a $5 prom with Cru, where you get $5 worth of clothes at a thrift store (neon green pants, fake snake skin jacket) and have a dance party. I helped out with Big Event, a campus wide community service event. I enjoyed a Sunday with some friends and relaxed. this past weekend I got to go to apex, this cool extended worship time. Saturday I woke up at 4am and hiked to the top of a mountain to see the sunrise with Matt and some other people (it was cloudy, but it was still cool). I got to help set up and tear down sound equipment for a gospel choir, they were really good. yesterday i went to a church in Roanoke to play with some cool kids.
This week is going to be the anniversary of April 16th. It is hard to imagine what people are going through during this time. Some people are ready to move on, while others have relapsed into pain and fear. I don't think I have any skill to help people who are in pain, but I know I can share God's love with people. I think God's love is the only thing that removes our fear and helps in healing. perfect love casts out all fear. pray that this campus sees God's love and that people be willing to pour it out.
Jesus you are well of love, we'll pour you out.
-Leeland
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| the week has been kind. i had a presentation in engineering and a test, but it was really nice outside this week. yesterday was the highlight. i finished my classes around 12. the rest of the day i got to play barefoot soccer and frisbee golf in the woods with ben and some friends. it was great. cru was really great this week too.
the talk this week was on humility based off philippians 2. verses like 'do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves' and 'your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus' are definitely challenging. i'm glad of it too. the speaker pointed out his own pride and how so many times he finds himself putting confidence in himself rather than God to bring himself glory. when i thought about pride i thought about a weed that is just clipped and never pulled from the roots. its roots grow stronger and every time it grows back it is clipped again. it gets to the point where the roots are so strong it is nearly impossible to pull out. i feel like pride does that. its rooted in our human nature and we can't pull it out on our own. we may be able to clip them but it just makes things worse and it chokes out all other good fruit. i don't really know if its possible to pull pride out of our human nature, but i know God has a lot of garden tools we don't have. i want to get dirty, dig, and find where my confidence lies and put it back on God.
i wonder where mulch fits into this metaphor...
we live in a beautiful world, yeah we do yeah we do- Coldplay
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