Fine Dining

The fine dining gang

"Hey Ed, I'm thinking about having a small Christmas gathering at my house. Look, here are some beautiful organice tealight candles. Shall we get the purple one or the green one?"

"It would surely be the purple one lahh. Sounds good. How about making it grand a bit."

"Grand? How grand do you want it to be?"

"Well, just a bit only lahh...We could think about the appetizer, the entree, the main course and finally, the dessert. Not only that, let's have a dress code, we would be wearing formal."

"Huh?"

"Ooh..aah..let's move the table to where the chandelier is located. Then we could have the fine dining atmoshpere. That would be so cool."

"Aaaaaahhhh....*sweat*" Matt was rolling his eyes looking around.

"One more thing, let's put candles too."

"Ok. That would be nice. I'll get the candles."

So, on 29 December 2008, we had our first fine dining experience in my house. To cut the long story short, it was a wonderful night. It was a bit awkward at first wearing formal clothes at home. However, the food was awesome. We started out with appetizer; mushroom soup, garlic bread and salad. Next was the entree, Edmund's best dish yet; the chicken wrapped with bacon. It was finger licking good. With our stomach hungering for more, Peking duck came next. Paul taught us to eat it Beijing style. You have to fill a rice paper with zucchini, onion leaves, bean sprout, Peking duck and lastly, the special sauce. Then, roll it up nicely and upon placing it into your mouth, you could taste the special sauce bursting in your mouth. It was truly an awesome experience. Yummy. Finally was the dessert; chocolate mint smoothies.

Crazy People

Although the dinner was great, the Word of God topped it all. It was about placing Christ first into our lives. If we do not think of Christ first in the morning, if we do not consider Him in our high and low times, if we neglect His laws, then we are truly sick. But when we are wounded, have we considered the suffering of our Lord? When we are in poverty, have we ever thought about the richness of our Lord? When we are suffering, have we pondered upon the comfort that God wants to give us? Well, if we could honour the name of our Lord by going into the depths of the world just for His name sake, if through death, we could add another trumpet of praise to His kingdom, if through our lives, we could glorify His name, then may our desire be so. Let's pray that in everything we do, say or think, it will be for the glory of God.