My field project

It's really amazing considering many little and big things that have happened throughout this semester since I registered for the class called 'Sociocultural Influences on Learn.'

- The house where I've been living happened to be very closed to Joslin Elementary school.
 It's a walk of 5 minutes.
- The ALD course that I've been taking is mainly about Mexican American education, and most of the kids at Joslin have Mexican ethnic background.
- I met the sister working in that school at the very beginning of the semester in a saint's house when we were having the college outing; there were dozens of other houses that I could've been assigned to.
- A few weeks ago, my host grandpa told a story about how people (related to Austin ISD) never could change the neighborhood about re-drawing the boundaries regarding racial integration. That added a new dimension in my understanding the community I was interested in for my project.
- I went to another home meeting for Friday and met two kids that go to Joslin there. They live right next to the house where the home meeting was and they always come over to the house to play with their American grandpa and grandma. The host family told me how they began to pick up a burden to take care of them becoming their grandparents.
- I went on a blending trip with the Monday night home meeting members to Mission and Edinburg which border Mexico.

April 2nd, 2014

I think I picked the perfect book for my Wednesday appointment with Rebecca and Lisa. The book is called "The Law of the Revival." When I first came to Camila's house, she had been reading this book for a while, and I was reminded of this book several months later; finally, chose to read with them.



*Today's highlights: 

Some serving ones are living and fresh.
Others are down and oppressed and want to withdraw from the service.
Both conditions show that the saints are living according to their feelings. Their relationship with the Lord is based on their emotions.

A particular point in the first stage ( of the Song of Songs) is that there is not much revelation of the beloved to his seeker, based on her experience and feeling. Our knowledge of the Lord in the initial stage is mainly from our experience. ... Her praises and pursuit are an expression of her subjective experience and subjective feelings. Although this is precious, she cannot go forward if she remains in these experiences. She lacks objective knowledge and utterance; everything is subjective. Believers who fall into subjectivity tend to become shallow. If we desire to be deep, we must have objective vision. 

In verses 8-9, she sees her beloved leaping and skipping upon the mountains and hills like a young hart. The seeker sees an objective vision. Our environment is full of "mountains" and "hills." Our situation is truly difficult. It is in this kind of situation that we need a vision, an objective seeing, a further knowledge of the Lord. 

The experience of the second stage is not a matter of the Lord giving us rest and satisfaction but of our seeing Him as the resurrected Lord, who has the power and vitality to leap upon the mountains and skip upon the hills in His move. The Lord calls her, saying, "Rise up, my love, My beauty, and come away." This is a matter of moving, not of enjoyment. For our enjoyment we need satisfaction and rest, but for our move we need power and vitality. In such an atmosphere of resurrection and freshness the Lord wants His seekers to rise up and come away with Him.