Let us not let our past define our future nor frustrations come our way in making our lives better. Last week, I got so frustrated with Sunday school that I did not attend. I admit that it came to a point when I almost got tempted to resign and quit. I saw the situation hopeless instead of taking the whole thing as a challenge. So I tried my best to make up for this week by telling the story of Easter and why people make easter eggs. The analogy of the egg and the tomb in the simplest way possible made the task very difficult. How can you explain salvation and redemption by using children stories with listeners aged 0-5? It is easier to teach salvation history to college students even if they are not willing to listen than to small kids eager to learn. Thank God, the team of teachers were able to manage the class well, thus less naughty kids moving around while I told the story. I started by asking the kids if they know what an egg is and where it comes from? If they have seen an egg? If they ate eggs for breakfast? if they know that egg comes from chicken and that chicken comes from eggs. This seemingly lifeless oblong shaped object is where life would eventually emerge. Like Jesus who stayed lifeless in the tomb for three days, the eggs will likewise hatch after a period when the mother hen sits on her eggs. From the eggs comes new life in the form of the chicks, while Christ offers new life after going out of the tomb and declaring triumph over death. While I felt dead and hopeless last week, I feel inspired and enthusiastic with Sunday school today after successfully telling the story to the kids.
Food Spree tonight at Pangsit Mie Ujung Pandang where we ate traditional Makasar Mie goreng with Ci Novy and Ci Melissa's family. Later, we had es puter at the loop with Pak Jimmy's family with Momo. After eating, Momo dropped me off at RM just after we shared a little about the kind of movies he liked watching.
And just when I thought the night was over and started typing my entry for today here in my blog, Romo Boedi inivited me for a post dinner treat at a place in Darmo were they serve Mayeye. Boy! the place is full of people lining up and snooping around checking if their order was taken. I really wondered why these people were just standing their, waiting for their order as if their snooping around will make the cooking and serving faster. Anyway, this delicacy is pratically composed of rice, sambal, tempe, telur goreng and ikan. Although I was already cukup, I still ate my share, and although mine was suppose to be manis, it was still extremely pedas, very hot. Hay! ending the day with eating just makes one thankful to the God who never fails to surprise and provide for his faithful children.
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