Currently knocked out in my bed, listening to some funky & lovely home made jazz. The amount of watched dvd’s today is three. One is awaiting. Blown my nose countless times. Refrained from drinking ginger & lime - Laura style (which means a whole chopped ginger root and three squeezed limes. Cures anything!). I am slowy healing from my symptoms. I am NOT ill, I only have symptoms of a massive cold in the head.
So far I have gotten a little taste of what’s to come workwise. The kid’s club is a real challenge! I find it difficult to realize they don’t speak with sarcasm, no dual meanings, they have fun and that’s all there is to it. And that they just simply like me. The teens I have are surely of the sweetest kind, but even so, they are teens – and thus sarcastic, funny, unsure of them selves, brave, not sure if they have fun but might be persuaded to think it really IS fun to build as high a tower as possible with cocktail sticks and jelly raspberries.
I have however been struck by how lonely this job could be. Planning alone for each time makes me doubt what’s fun and what’s not. However, even if I’d be planning with someone else, I’d still go for the lamest ideas. Lame is the new fun, surely everyone knows that! And blessed are the lame for they will be healed and skip around like calves out on pasture (some bilingual verse syncronism for all you theologians out there J).
For the past two days we’ve been doing treasure hunts with maps and riddles and the works! Before there were safes and banks, people burried their treasures and drew a map and let X mark the spot. God did something similar, only the other way around, as usual. He drew a map from the begining of the world, drew a big X in the midst of history – but He put the very Treasure ON the X. Then He let anyone get hold of the map book, for the Treasure to be found is enough for everyone. As we repent from our sins and recieve Jesus Christ we enter the Kingdom where He is Lord and King. It is right here in our midst! It’s the magical Kingdom that we belong to. It’s an up-side-down-kingdom which laws and principles and priorities differ from that of the fallen world we live in. It’s a Kingdom where impossible things are possible. It’s a Kingdom where there’s free lunches. And to seek it, I suppose, is to live a Kingdom life, to successively let it’s world view become my world view – seasoned with a righteousness from the Lord.
For the Kingdom of God is like a man who finds a treasure in a field and sells everything he owns and buys the field.
