Even More Food For Thought……………

More Food For Thought……………

Thursday evening, late back for dinner, we burst through the door and my ten year old son flies into the study,

“Blast – I missed Sam!” -

“What do you mean?” (I’m in the hall struggling with bags) -

“I was meant to meet him at church” -

“Huh?”

“To pray together.”

Now at this point I put the bags down and a bemused and somewhat stunned look comes over my face – bear with me! –

“We were meant to meet and pray together, anyway, it doesn’t matter, he needs prayer points but I’ve already got loads, I’ve done tons of praying”

Ever had that feeling that time has stood still and you’re hovering in another dimension? Sam’s a lovely boy but I wouldn’t put him down as a big prayer. The lesson in theology from the study goes on ……….

“With all my praying I‘ve enough points for a really thick skin – to protect me from attack!”

Wow, it was slightly surreal, but it was good, made sense, Nils would be proud.

“It’s great, I’ve so many prayer points I can go and attack people now and steal all their stuff – yeh – I’m well sorted!”

Now – yeh, you see – I see what you’re thinking. The philosophy starts to crumble and I go into the study to try and make sense of life. Samuel is on Runescape.com – the internet game world where he and his class mates meet up to chill out after the only too real world of school. Do any of the rest of you find this weird? Anyway, hopes of a son in the priesthood vanish and I shove Samuel over to create myself a character, - if you can’t beat’em join’em. Half an hour later I’m still wandering around in a virtual forest. I’ve made three fires, burnt my prawns twice and driven a pick axe into an unsuspecting miner who happened to walk in front of my iron ore (I’m attempting to smelt a sword, I haven’t even found church yet). Well, hey ho! What can we learn from all this? You know what - I’ll let you decide.

Back to the reason for writing this article. Food for Thought (FFT)! Come, COME - it’s great!– well so says the feedback handed in from the last meeting. Loads of “Yes we want it to continue”, “yes, more of the same” etc etc. “More cake!” (I question the sanity of this one - lack of cake is not one of our problems). We’ve got loads of good stuff ahead. June 24^th will be our last meeting before the summer, a bit of a celebration that we’ve made it this far, BBQ, fun for all the family etc. Summer will be regular picnics, BBQ’s etc. Next term maybe smaller groups in addition to FFT where we can ask the big questions in open and free discussion. Who knows, keep watching, we’re currently building the FFT website, www.foodforthought.gb.com so take a look. Anyway, back to June 24^th, get yourself along, bring the children, gain more prayer points and you never know what you can do! Enough prayer points and you certainly won’t burn your prawns!