Ladies Who Lunch

Jay came round for lunch on Tuesday - the Captain was busy detecting for the Archeologists - he found a lot of coins too.  We had the usual - lentil and veggie soup, followed by apple crumble and custard.

So I was thinking back to our expat days when I seemed to be cooking all the time - we did a lot of entertaining, there were pot lucks, and other things.

And then there were the days of the BBQ. We had a big BBQ in the garden of our last house and Mike used to come round and start it up and we would cook sausages, garlic bread, mushrooms, etc and people would just turn up.

There was also a time when we used to go to Robert's villa in town every weekend. He had a cook from the sub-continent who used to cook us wonderful curries.

You didn't need to plan a social life then. It just sort of happened. I used to cook a lot of Thai/Chinese/Indian food out there, but my cooking is very plain and routine these days. Anyway I must find a picture from our expat days to head this blog.  I could only find this one, one of our many gardens, with sprinkler in full flight.  Over here we can pretty much rely on the giant sprinkler in the sky.

Which reminds me that at the meeting on Thursday night we (the congregations worldwide) began our study of Ecclesiastes. one of my favourite Bible books for all its sadness.  And in it Solomon, writing under inspiration, described the cycle of the rain, in such accurate and simple terms.  

He wrote:   All the streams flow into the sea, yet the sea is not full. To the place from which the streams flow, there they return so as to flow again. - Ecclesiastes 1:7

And the book of Job describes it too:  Yes, God is greater than we can know; The number of his years is beyond comprehension. He draws up the drops of water; They condense into rain from his mist; Then the clouds pour it down; They shower down upon mankind.  Job 36:26-28 

So in the UK while we have the gigantic sprinkler in the sky - see the quotes above for how it works - because everything is out of order since the loss of Eden, sometimes we get too much rain and sometimes too little.  Which brings me neatly back to the Kingdom of God, with Jesus as the King of that Kingdom. He can and will bring the natural forces back into the perfect harmony they had in Eden.