this was easter weekend, where Christians celebrate the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. it's been interesting that Christianity seems to have become fashionable to talk about again. i'm sure there's usually more religious programming at this time of year, but it just seems to me there's a lot more talk this year. over the last couple weeks, there's been an A&E biography on Jesus, an extensive report on ABC: Jesus and Paul--The Word and the Witness, the rebroadcast of several Christian-themed movies like "The Ten Commandments" and "The Prince of Egypt", and more t.v. movies on Jesus himself or characters surrounding Him like Judas. plus, "The Passion of the Christ" was back on top of the box office again. i haven't necessarily been the biggest fan of mel gibson's 'controversial' movie, but i freely admit that's it's been great in that it's caused plenty of buzz / stir and resulted in many people talking about their faith again. even weeks after seeing it myself, i find that i still talk to many of my friends about it and its impact. and that's definitely a good thing. :)
another random thought about the weekend is baptism. a number of people got baptised at TCCC on sunday morning. they included some of the younger people at the church. at the same service, there was also communion--in the past, pre-SARS, TCCC's tradition was to pass around the communion elements in the pews; but, nowadays they continue to invite baptised Christians up to receive the elements. the combination of seeing people take the 'plunge' and share their testimony, and seeing so many people take communion made me think why i haven't been baptised myself. many of my friends have been able to take that next step in their Christian walk, and for some reason i haven't been able to do the same. i dunno what my answer is. scared? confused? uncertain? anyway, it's definitely something i will consider much more seriously over the next few months or year.
most of the rest of the weekend was spent hanging out and catching up with friends--everyone's been so busy lately with work, school or whatever. there were some people that i hadn't talked to very much in months. and so much had changed in their lives or my own since we last talked. i know it's pretty much impossible to keep in touch with everyone, but i wish i could. for example, there was one friend who had been struggling with various personal issues over the last while, but i had no idea. i wished that i had checked in a little earlier to offer, even a little, support. sigh.
finally, i spent saturday night and tonight at ebrian's cheering on the leafs. luckily, toronto came out on top on both nights with identical 2-0 wins. two words: eddie belfour. the leafs are extremely luckily not to be down 3-0 right now. they've been completely outplayed. and it's not like patrick lalime has been horrible for ottawa, it's just that belfour has been a stone wall. it's funny how biased / stupid leafs fans / commentators are though. on my way home, i was listening to the talk-radio about the reactions to the game. rightfully, one caller was making the comment of how 'lucky' the leafs were to win and criticizing some of the players--especially tie domi for missing an open net! nonetheless, the host started lambasting the caller and even made silly comment about 'making sure the doctor prescribes him the right meds'. no doubt that i'm still cheering the team on to win a stanley cup, but i also can't wait until the day that, if and when, the leafs get eliminated. i wonder what fans / commentators will say then. man, they're so fickle.
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