Slap, Spoons, Digity, and The Gospel of Matthew

Last night I got invited to one of the christian homes in the church for dinner and family bonding. It was fun. It was interesting.

It started with Ben (an Australian guy), kristen (my roommate), Anna (Ben's younger sister), Joel (Ben's brother), and I making dinner. Ben was in charge and decided to put every veggie in the fridge in the spagetti. Weird, but it worked. there was tomatoes, broccolli, carrots, onions, garlic, and corn and peas in with the meat, and spagetti sauce. It was.....good....in a strange way. (their mum and sister is out of town on missions and they take turns making dinner, I guess every night is an adventure).

Then we gathered around a table and played Zigity (a cranium game)....we played a few games and ...Then bens father busted out the bible and turned to Matthew 5.

To me it seemed out of no where, but it was completely normal to everyone else, I guess about every night they read in the word together. He led a discussion, challanged his children to look at Jesus, and gave applications on how to live as Christians in a fallen world. Wow. thats a dad. I cried, they called me a "softie," but it was so touching to see a christian dad, daily interacting with his children. Christianity is as natural as that, daily offering Christ, and the message of the Gospel.

Then we returned to playing games, spoons being one of them, and this painful game called slap (like slap jack but different). dont worry no one was seriously injured. Even though people wrestled to the ground for spoons, and slapped the bagezzees out of each others hands....

But what a night. What a time. What a gift to experience Christ, the body in a foreign country, with my family in Christ.

So yeah. Life. Jesus. Freedom.

Oh!!!! And yesterday I had an exam. and when we finished me and my Australian girl friends, Sam and Kylie went to Maccas (McDonalds) to celebrate and we got french fries and shakes. Then we decided why stop celebrating there? So we went to the grocery store, bought 20 dollars worth of junk food (chocolate, lollies, chips, popcorn, etc) and rented batman movies. then we spent the afternoon lounging, laughing, and relaxing. even though these next couple weeks contain the majority of the Uni work,

we stopped
we celebrated
we took the time to rest.

Praise the Lord.

Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.
Matthew 11:28-30