Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!

I got this ecard from someone wishing people a happy thanksgiving and I thought I'd share it with everyone. It's pretty awesome. =) Enjoy. Make sure your sound is on. =)

http://www.msn.americangreetings.com/view.pd?i=382219626&m=1652&rr=y&sou

God Bless and be safe this holiday.

Wayne Hsu and Holy Spirit

I had another dream last night. Still remember it so I have to write it down somewhere or else I'll forget, hehe. So here's the dream I had.

It started out with me being at a huge hockey rink. My old DU team was playing a game and they were up 2 - 1 late in the 3rd period. All of a sudden, they asked me to join the game and miraculously, I was already in full gear so I just grabbed my stick and jumped on the ice to play. No matter what I did, it just wasn't the right thing. I couldn't even skate well. Nothing was working out for me. The puck was missed by my players and it came to me, well, I tried to get it, but completely missed, why? because I had no more stick. My stick had disappeared and instead of a stick, I had a jacket in my hand. So I swatted at the puck with my jacket. Strangely enough the refs never stopped the game because I was using a jacket as a stick. It seemed ok to everyone cause not even my teammates went to retrieve my stick for me. Finally, the puck was pushed into the corner and I went after it. I ended up slipping when I got there and when I looked down, it seemed like there were 3 pucks. Except the other 2 pucks were fake, they were some kind of candy that looked like a hockey puck and had plastic wrapping over it. When I stood up, there was a pile of them there where I was. The refs blew play dead and they picked them up. I heard the opposing coach yell, "He did that on purpose, those things fell out of his jacket." I just skated away and played it off like nothing happened. I don't know where those things came from. After play resumed, the other team finally scored with a few seconds left on the clock. The strange thing was, our goalie was no where to be found. They had a wide open net and just tapped it in with no effort at all.

So we skated to the bench. I had been playing for about 5 minutes straight without getting tired. The whole line played like that. It was the strangest thing because you normally have like 30 - 45 second shifts so 5 minutes is insane. When I got back to the benc, I noticed that the team was made up of like, 2 forward lines and 2 defensive lines, including my line. So we didn't even have a full team. Finally, someone was nice enough to bring me back my hockey stick, they were asking who's it was and it was mine. Strangely though, my stick was comletely wrapped in plastic, like a brand new stick that stil had the packaging on it.. So I just removed the plastic. When I got to the bench, I asked if the game was over, I wasn't sure. So I look back onto the ice and 2 other teams were shaking hands, it looked like they just finished up their game. So I .look out again and it seems there are just random people on the ice now, getting ready to ice skate. It's like right after the games, they had free skate going on. So I'm sitting there with my team and I notice that skating over to our bench was a girl I know. I'm not going to reveal her name, cause that's not important, hehe. So she came over and said hi. The rest of the guys were like.....go for it go for it....I'm like....excuse me? lol. She's too young for me first of all and she's just a friend, hehe. Not to mention I don't know her that well and she's not what I'm looking for in a girl anyway. Meaning she's a good looking girl cause the guys were like, she's hot, go for it. So I jumped the bench and gave her a hug...sorta, cause my pads were still on, hehe. Then a song came on and the people doing free skate started skating around the circles in a huge group. It looked kinda cool, hehe. She invited me to go out and skate. I'm like no thanks. Of course the guys were like...yeah yeah yeah. haha. "Cheering" me on. Not that they were going to, hehe. So she's like alright, well, I'm going to go and so she did. So I just watched her skate off. As I was sitting there with the team, I overheard the goalie complaining about that final goal. He was blaming the whole thing on me and saying how I was skating around too much. And saying how it would have been best if I just sat in front the net, not literally sitting, but just staying in front of the net to protect it. I couldn't take it anymore so I joined my friend on the ice, haha. I went up to her and tapped her from behind and she turned and gave me a hug. So I started skating with her and tried to get in on the huge line that the skaters have now formed. I reached out and grabbed her hand and we started skating with the line. Finally, she let go of my hand like she was ashamed of me or something. I asked her what was wrong and she was like...we are just friends, we shouldn't be holding hands. I was like, that's baloney, I know we are just friends, but we are just skating and it's not like we mean anything else by this gesture. She understood and was happy again so I grabbed her hand with a smile that she understood and continued to skate and have a good time.

The dream then shifts to a bunch of military personnel. I was now in the military. Part of an elite group of soldiers. We were ordered to go into a certain place for a special assignment. So we began our training, but the next thing I knew, we were already on the plane on the way over to the assignment area. All of a sudden, part of the platoon just ran up to where we were and started shooting part of the team. They later said that they were traitors and sent to sabotage the mission. Not seconds later, were we hit with a missle. It didn't explode though, but rather, went straight through the cargo area. Luckily, none of us were killed or hit by that. So we all grabbed parachutes and proceeded to jump out of the plane which had already started going down. So everyone jumped except me and 2 other people. The last 2 were afraid or waiting or something. I finally grabbed one and was like, we are jumping. Just then another low flying plane was going right by us. So we couldn't jump or else we would have jumped right into that plane. So a few seconds later, it passed and I grabbed the person and basically just threw him out of the plane. And I just jumped right after him, telling the person to follow now. So I jumped, but the plane had gotten so low that before I could even pull my parachute, I landed in a tree and fell all the way to the ground and landed in the grass. The tree totally broke my fall as I was perfectly fine, with no injuries.. The person behind me, had also jumped right afterwards but had time to open the parachute for the person went all the way to the ground and I turned just in time to see the person land in a huge pile of rocks and basically slid through the rocks. I ran over to the person to help them out. I asked if they could walk and was answered with a no., my leg is injured, I can't move it. They proceeded to remove their mask to take a look at their leg. To my surprise, it was a girl, not that I'm being sexist about the army or anything, just in the dream, I was surprised. Not only was she a girl, she was a very beautiful blonde young lady. About my age and she was a part of this team just like everyone else. She couldn't walk and there were search lights "patrolling" the area we were in. So I grabbed her and picked her up and started running towards our commander who was behind a building. For whatever reason, I just knew where everyone was hiding out. They way I grabbed her was over my shoulder. If you were looking at the person, you would take their right arm and put your body underneath theirs from under their right arm. The other hand would go between the legs and hook behind the right leg. So they are basically laying stomach down on your shoulders. We had to hurry, cause the search light was upon us and had skimmed over us, but they saw us. So I ran away from the search light and we eventually got away and to safety with the rest of the team. We were all kind of panicked as we were not expecting an ambush like this so we were almost yelling at the general asking what we should do next. The first thing we did was find a place to hide and get patched up to plan our next move. It seemd like we were in a huge city, and we were hiding out within the neighborhood. Apparently we had a contact there that we could be with and trust that they were on our side. What side we were a part of, I'm not exactly sure. The last thing I remember, I was helping the girl patch up her leg and the dream ends.

At least I think it ends. I can't remember if there was another part to it, I think there was, but I just can't remember it now. Either it kept going, or my alarm went off, hah.a. Anyway. I had to write the dream down somewhere and well, xanga was the fastest cause I can type faster than I can write, lol. Anyway, hope you enjoyed my dream, LOL. I'll have to ask God for the interpretation. I have gotten some of the interpretation already, but I have to get the rest of it, hehe. Take care everyone and God Bless. ^_^

Wayne Hsu and Holy Spirit

I've said it once and I'll say it many more times in the future, but God NEVER ceases to amaze me. He just pulls out surprise after surprise, hehe. So for those of you that don't know...because I didn't say anything, hehe....my gout in my right foot came back on Monday. On Sunday it was already kind of hurting, but I thought maybe it was just overworked. But no...the gout came back. For those of you that don't know what that is, it's when the uric acid in your bloodstream crystalizes and settles normally in your big toe. Making it extremely painful because that's the direction your blood flows in first of all, hehe, but it also makes it very very difficult to walk. So you have to keep your foot elevated so the blood flow isn't so intense. This is the worst case that I've gotten it because it swelled up my whole foot this time. Previously it was just the toe area that was swollen. So anyway, I've been in pain this whole week. =P

Thursday night, which would've been last night, but I was lazy and I'm not posting till Saturday morning...pay no attention to the time. =P I really stretched my faith and did something completely ridiculous that I would never have thought to do. It was just plain silly. In the Bible, the book of Acts 19, the anointing of God was so strong in those times, that even the clothing of the disciples could be cut off and placed on people to completely heal them. Well, I totally believe that healing power is evident even today, just at this moment in time, God's anointing on the Earth isn't as strong as it was back then. Why? Because of us humans, we limit His power and reduce it from what it's truly capable of, but that's a whole other teaching. Anyway, my church, "Word of Life" has a conference very year called "Resurrection". Well, at the end of each conference, there's another service for prayer and prayer clothes. The prayer clothes are to be brought home or given to family members, relatives, friends, kids, whomever for healing. We've had some awesome awesome testimonies from people who were completely healed. I've heard of 2 that really stuck out. Before I get into those, lemme explain, hehe. These pieces of cloth are taken from the concept in Acts 19. When Paul had pieces of cloth and clothing that were taken to heal people. Each night of the conference, they have the guest preacher lay hands on them and pray and anoint them. So their are some powerful men of God that lay hands on these things that help bring God's healing anointing to the world. At the end of the conference, they are given out to people who need a healing miracle in their lives and like I said, there have been numerous testimonies in return to a prayer cloth. So the 2 miracles that really stick out were one, a dead man was raised from the dead and another person had their blind eyes totally opened. The dead man had died in the hospital and they just took a cloth, about the size of a bandana, and just layed it over his face and he just popped up from the stretcher. That must have been scary, lol. The other one, the person laid the cloth underneath their pillow at night as they slept and when they woke up the next morning, they weren't blind anymore. It's like WOW!!! Praise God!!! I haven't seen any creative miracles, but I've witnessed some awesome miracles myself. Healing miracles I mean, hehe.

So anyway, the real point I was saying was I did something completely out of the blue. Up till last night, I was just taking pain killers for the pain and that's about it. Of course I prayed too, probably not as much as I should have, lol. Regardless of that, I took a prayer cloth...from 2 years ago that I still had. And I tied it around my foot. Don't know why, I figured it wouldn't hurt to try, stretch my faith a little bit. Took some pain killers right before I crawled into bed. I ended up going to bed late cause our cat got out and I was the one that "let" it out on accident. She ran out when I opened the door for the dog...stupid cat, lol. But she came back at around 5 am and my roommate and I waited for her to let her in cause our pets just know to come home, lol. So I didn't get to bed till late. I had to make a phone call so I set my alarm for 11 am. I woke up at 1 pm by my phone ringing cause my mom was calling me. You may say, so what? Big deal. I woke up with no pain whatsoever and I hadn't slept that well all week. I was able to walk decently well now instead of limping around. God had partially healed me of my sickness. The nights before I would wake up in the middle of the night because of the pain regardless of the pain killers. I wasn't able to sleep well at all. I ended up taking 3 or 4 naps a day and my sleep schedule is all messed up now. Which is why I'm still up typing this out, haha. The pain had been really intense, hard to move, I literally sat around all day. Sounds nice, but I was in pain, lol. I was doing things to keep my mind off the pain. And gout isn't something that just gets better overnight. But there's a significant difference from Thursday night when I went to bed and Friday morning...well afternoon, hehe, when I woke up. I hadn't been taking any medication or anything. Nothing to really combat it, just to relieve the pain a bit and wait it out.

So I have yet ANOTHER thing to be thankful for...that I'm healed and well. Maybe not completely 100% healed, but enough to where I can do something about it now, haha. Praise God!! Hallelujah!!! AMEN!! haha. Oh...and last night, I had an unusual dream. I was living in a prety big house with a couple. They weren't married, but they were dating and we all lived together. The guy wasn't the greatest guy, but he wasn't a jerk either. The girlfriend was really nice to me and I guess we've been friends for a while now. The guy I don't think liked me very much. But I remember me and the guy being outside in the front yard and there were kids playing in the neighborhood. One of our neighbors, an older gentleman was outside getting his newspaper and there were kids playing in front of our house. Well, next to the street, we have rocks there and kids were knocking the rocks out onto the sidewalk. So we went and pushed the rocks back into the piles. We lived in a nice neighborhood with friendly people and all. After going back inside, he went upstairs to get changed cause he was going out with the girl that night to the opera. And so I'm looking in my closet for my nice suit and I was like...wait, did you get 2 tickets or 3? And the guy was like...I only got 2, I'm just going with her. So I was like...oh, and really bummed cause I wanted to go too.So he leaves the room and the girl comes in and was like...Wayne, you should totally come with us. You can just come home afterwards. I said no thank you and gave her a reason why...don't remember what that was. And then night falls and I wake up from the dream. I remember in the dream that I really loved this girl and I just knew, in the dream, that we've been friends for a really long time and that we've both been through a lot and helped each other out a lot. But now she was with this guy all the while me secretly liking her. I guess I just never said anything to her or whatever, haha. I don't know what the dream means, but that's what happened, hehe. The girl was mix between Chinese and white, almost a perfect 50/50 split and the guy was white, kinda scruffy, hehe. The guy was a little taller than me and had dark brown curly hair. The girl was about my height and had long brown/blonde hair that went down to her lower back. The night they went out to the opera, he was in a black tux and she wearing a beautiful red dress. The guy and I shared a room and the girl had her own room. It was kind of layed out like a hotel. You walk in the door and there's a wall on the right that when you get passed it, you see it's a closet. As you continue to walk in, there are 2 beds with a small dresser in between the 2 beds. There's another bigger dresser at the foot of the beds, but against the wall so it doesn't block walking, with a 14 or 15 in. tv on it. And as you walk passed the beds, there's the big window. Like the full ones that go from the ceiling to the floor, but these were just a little smaller. Didn't quite reach the ceiling and didn't quite hit the ground. A few feet from the ground and ceiling. The closet was shared 50/50 and so were the dressers. I don't believe I ever really saw the face of the guy or the girl. Just features. Unusual dream, hehehe. I should probably ask God what it means, haha. Although I'm a little scared to ask, haha. Cause of the coloring that was in the dream, but anyway, hehe. The cool thing is I haven't had such a vivid dream in a long time. So when I do, it's always a real blessing.

I'm just going to close with God is awesome. God is great, all the time and all the time, God is great. He never ceases to amaze and we all ust have to keep our senses sharp enough to notice everything He does. Alright, hope you guys enjoyed this post, lol. It was fun to write it, hehe. Take care everyone and God Bless.

Wayne Hsu and Holy Spirit

So I watched "The Truman Show" today all the way through for the first time. I've seen parts of the movie before, but never all of it. It was good, I actually saw the ending this time, hehe. For those of you that don't know what movie that is, it stars Jim Carrey and basically, his whole life, from the time he was in his mother's womb till he's an adult, is caught on film and shown to the whole world. The whold world witnessed his birth, his first steps, everything. It was a 24/7 showing of this guys life. There was a director and they recreated a HUGE world for Truman. Everything was remade into 1 huge movie set for him. Basically a "perfect" world. Anyone at anytime could turn on the TV and watch this show......basically, his life. All the people in his world are actors. Including his wife and his best friend. Whenever Truman tries to leave the place....there would be just something that keeps him from leaving. Some sort of event or something that forces him in a sense to stay at that city.

It just got me thinking that's exactly how God is too. Just watching our lives. All day, 24/7 just watching us. Just like in the movie, everything has been set before us. Things that happen in our lives, the people that's a part of our lives, were orchestrated and planned by God. Although God lets us live our own lives, He will place certain things in our lives to prevent us from leaving His perfect plan for our lives. Of course we always have that choice to follow it, unlike Truman had. The friends we have are placed in our lives for a reason. The best friend or few best friends we take, are put into our lives for a reason. Now I'm not saying we always choose wisely who to make our friends or best friends, but they are still there for a reason, hehe. I'm saying that from experience. I know I haven't chosen the best of friends in the past, but I'm so thankful that I did choose them before. Strange yes, but I've learned from them and those experiences to know to not go back to that, hehe.

At the end of the movie, Jim Carrey obviously finds out the truth, that's definitely predictable. But he got to talk with the guy that created it all. And the director of it all was talking to him like he was God. Metaphorically, not literally, hehe. I'm not saying he was boasting about his "creation" or anything. But I could imagine God saying the same things that he did. Basically he was explaining to Jim Carrey a few things about what was going on. And I can just hear God saying the same things. I created you. I created this world for you to enjoy, I was there for your birth, I was there to see your first steps. When you lost your first tooth, I was there. When you met your best friend, I saw. That first test you aced, I rejoiced with you. That first test you failed, I suffered with you. That girlfriend/boyfriend that broke your heart, mine broke along with yours. That girlfriend/boyfriend that eventually became your wife/husband, I celebrated along with you. When you landed that perfect job, I cheered with you. God wants to be so involved with our lives and we never let Him be as involved as He really wants to be. I know that because I don't even let Him take everything like I should. Sometimes I think I've given something up to Him, but I was far from it, still holding onto it myself deceiving myself into thinking that I have surrendered it to God.

I've been so out of touch with God lately, yet I still hear Him calling. I still feel that tug on my heart everyday. I still feel the conviction when I'm messing up. I still feel His love and grace upon me. Yet I still continue in my sinful ways. Why is that? I don't understand us humans sometimes. Other times I wish I didn't understand, hehe. I've gotten phone calls from people at church wondering where I've been and I haven't returned their calls. I've just been afraid to call them. I don't know why. Afraid to allow myself to be a little more vulnerable. We've all been hurt and it's hard for me now to just open up. I used to be very open about myself, but let's just say this world sucks and people aren't as they show themselves to be. One part of I me wants to pour out to these people because I know they won't judge and just love me for who I am,, but on the other hand, I really am afraid of what that might do to me. It's just amazing what God will do to bring you back to Himself. Even if we don't go back for the right reasons, we ought to go back to Him just because of how much effort He puts in to get to us. He should be "rewarded" for what He does although that's completely the wrong way to think.

Anyway...I'm done for tonight, hehe. Take care everyone. God Bless.

Wayne Hsu