Oh night divine.

To be honest, I haven't really felt that "Christmas spirit" until Saturday. It was a humbling night in itself, & although none of my friends came, yet again, I feel so blessed to be a part of something so moving.

Before the day of the concert arrived, I told myself over & over again-- "This is for God. This is for God. Glorify. C'mon, Loris."-- though at times it felt like a priority. I think, however, up until the time I woke to get ready for this night, I really felt it. I mean, I felt spurts of it along the journey, but that night it became my only goal. Everything else was pushed aside & I wanted everything to go right-- for Him. The pantomime, especially. For weeks, there has been stress upon stress piled on this 6 minute act, and if anything were to encourage me to push for it, it was the talk with Pastor on Thursday night, during our last pantomime practice.

There's something about the spotlight and audience that changes you. If you know me, you'd know that I love being on stage. I guess, when I was up there for the pantomime, there was more pressure? Like, I really hoped that what I was conveying would really get through to the audience. I knew He was watching. I knew everyone else was watching. I knew some of the CPYF were watching. I wanted people to pay attention. I wanted people to ask questions. I just wanted something to come out of it.

He really moved in that sanctuary. I cannot count the number of times I've had someone come up to me & say, "I almost cried!" or "You made me tear up!" or just straight up, "I cried."

Singing with our CPYF choir was well worth it. Although I got tired of constantly listening to the CD, although I was still mixed up with some of the blockings, although it might've seemed like there were too many lights on stage, it was so much fun. Not gonna lie, I still had that hope that at least one person that I invited would be sitting in the audience, & I would see them once the house lights came on. Reality was, I didn't. & it hit me that it didn't matter. I was super proud of this youth group that I just focused on making sure that they knew they participated in something really great. I found myself still singing the concert songs the day after it was all over.

I've only recently begun enjoying Christmas songs again. Downloaded a couple winter-y songs yesterday. I was totally unaware of the winter CD that Hotel Cafe produced a couple months ago. Priscilla Ahn is on the album (!!!), & her take on "Silent Night" gives me goosebumps. It's haunting yet enchanting. I got excited when I saw Meiko on the album too, but her song is a bit melancholy & vindictive-- yeah, I dunno. Ingrid Michaelson & Sara Bareilles have a duet on the album & the song's pretty cute. Anyyyyyyyyyways.

Oh, we've started Doctrine 1 on Christology in Sunday School & it's preeeeeetty cool! The Bible's intense. Every page is kept in check with all the other pages, & each book was still written by different men, at different times, but led by the same Spirit who was moving in that sanctuary on Saturday. Good stuff.



Calendar updation.
12/23 -- More shopping; La Creperie tradition with faves!
12/24 -- CousinBonding; Simbang Gabi; Annual Christmas Eve get-together (:
12/25 -- Merry Christmas! Parties galore.
12/26 -- Movie Marathon pt. 3?
12/27 --
12/28 -- Church; KBBQ outing with Pantomime cast! (:
12/29 -- Small group fellowship&SLEEPOVER!
12/30 --
12/31 -- New Year's Eve partyyy
01/01 -- Happy New Year!; SAPRID FAMILY REUNION o_o
01/02 --
01/03 --
01/04 -- Church;
01/05 --
01/06 -- Happy 19th anniversary, parentals.
01/07 --
01/08 --
01/09 -- Officer's Retreat to Carlsbad !
01/10 -- Officer's Retreat to Carlsbad !
01/11 -- Church;

Ohmygah, I need dates for:
_LJL&Mini-Me's crepe day.
_CousinBonding @ Albertacoooo's.
_L squared day.
_Soulmates day.
_Chilling with whoever's back in townnn !
_KBBQ run with btvOG's.
_"Hot Chocolate > Coffee" day.


Ay nako, what a long post. It's okay, I haven't legitly blogged about my life for a while.

Oh, I speak Tagalog more frequently now. Taglish, to be exact. Uh, yeah.