...last night was poker night at my house, correction in my garage. when we moved in this house we painted the garage floor, built cabinets for storage, built a counter top for potlucks, bought 30 chairs & 2 drink dispensers and the garage became the house church room. now, almost exactly 3 years later, the garage has become the "poker room"! i think our intentions for the garage have finally become His intentions and there is more church happening at the once a month poker night than in all our house church meetings! i say that because we finally have pagans among us! our monday night meeting has changed too, we never sit in a circle of chairs, we don't have potlucks but do eat together, and the garage is no longer home to our family who join us! i know your probably wondering if poker night is a co-ed event, no i wasn't invited, i didn't even offer healthy snacks or go around the table coughing and putting out the cigars. i did watch "The Life of David Gale" with a couple of girlfriends while our children laughed, pretended & read together all night! the movie was good, one you just can't stop watching--like a good book that you can't wait to get to the end of! here's a quote from David Gale as he sits on death row...
"we spend our lives trying to stop death; eating, inventing, loving, praying, fighting, killing, but what do we really know about death...just that nobody comes back. But there comes a point in life, a moment, when your mind out lives it desires, it's obsessions and your habits survive your dreams and when your losses----maybe death is a gift, you wonder."
"The Life of David Gale"
i wondered (with a little more hope of a heaven than David Gale) why when my sister took her 3 year old daughter, kyla, to see her dying great-grandfather, the only thing she had to say to him was to say "hi" to Jesus when he gets to heaven. she was not afraid, she didn't question why he has to die. why when we "grow up" do we start fighting death? as kyla would say, "it is taking for to long to get to heaven". i know death is a gift and i desire to see it through the eyes of the children around me.
posted by Tera @ 3:24 PM
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