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Wednesday, May 21, 2008 Random Recentness Josh Glover had his second piano lesson this week. He's five and has the adorable habit of counting with 'frees'. "One, two, free; free, two, one." When we got to the last few minutes of the lesson, I decided we had time for one more page. He looked up at me with his big, brown eyes, lip trembling, and said, "Well...sometimes...I, um, if I just do this too long...um, well, it just makes me real...hot." I quickly assured him we didn't have to do anymore. ~*~ Last Friday, we girls went to the city with our good friends Matt, Justine, Jono, and Louise for a belated birthday celebration for Maria. We had a nice long stroll down the city streets and a couple rides up the city trams before we found the Chinese place where we wanted to eat. After ordering all our meals, the waiter came back and told me my meal came with a drink. Thinking of a drink as something alcoholic, I hesitantly asked, "Do you have, like, Coke or something?" Everyone at the table laughed at me, saying, "He's going to go bring you back an 'or something'!" He did bring me my Coke, only to come back and take it away after we clarified that the meal I had actually ordered didn't include a drink. The waiter then went on to drink the Coke that had almost been mine. Huh. After eating tea, we walked to Southbank (overlooking the Yarra River), took some pictures, and got some yummy ice cream. We girls rode back to Frankston with Matt and Justine. Matt stopped to buy us coffee at Macca's on the way. He asked the drive-thru guy for a "flat white". The guy asked him if he wanted it from the McCafe or just the regular MacDonalds. "I don't care where it's from," Matt replied, "I just want a flat white!" Now, we girls were in the back seat, thinking the guy had said, "Sorry, we don't have any coffee," and wondering why Matt was yelling at the guy to get him some anyway! So when the guy told us to pull up because it'd be a few minutes for our drinks, we girls scolded Matt, saying, "Hey! The poor guy is probably running to the nearest Safeway to grab some coffee for this grumpy costumer!" We all had a good laugh over it. The rest of the drive consisted of comments about "the lights of encouragement, the horn of enthusiasm, and the brakes of soverignty" and other such slap-happy comments, as well as random spurts of Brave Saint Saturn songs. ~*~ I just read "The Last Battle" for the first time in my life. I've read all the other Narnia books multiple times, but somehow I had never finished the last one! I've been reading bits of the other Narnia books out loud to Benji at night. We are looking forward to the new "Prince Caspian" movie, which, sadly, doesn't come out in Australia until June 5th! ~*~ Tamara and Benjamin have been dancing to ringtones from Maria's mobile phone for the past 15 minutes. It's somewhat disturbing, but mostly hilarious. ~*~ Maria and I are finishing highschool!!! No, we're not twins, but we are under 13 months apart. We've done most of our school together, and we're carrying on the tradition of two Blackwoods graduating at once. We don't have an official graduation ceremony, but we're hoping to have open houses both here in Frankston and in the States. ~*~ Last night at Bible study, we watched a DVD of a sermon by a Scottish pastor on Luke 14:23 -- "Go out into the highways and byways and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled." We were challenged to tell others, with a sense of urgancy, of the Kingdom, for ourside the Kingdom is great danger, great temptation, and no experience of the hope and love in the Kingdom. We were encouraged by the reminder that our salvation is a wonderful gift of our great God, by which we have every sense of hope and peace and joy that we need in all aspects of life. The preacher told a story of the response of two men to some preaching by Charles Spurgeon. "Oh, Mr. Spurgeon!" exclaimed the first. "What a sermon! What a sermon!" The second came up to him and declared, "Oh, Mr. Spurgeon! What a Saviour!"  [L to R: Maria, Matt, Justine, Louise, Jono, Tamara, Charity]Charity | 10:35 pm Comments-[ comments.] |
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