Thursday, January 31, 2008

I sat with some friends at work the other day having lunch.

In that situation, I don’t know if you are the same as me, but I look around the table and see what others are eating.
One was eating sandwiches (that was me).
One was eating tuna from a can.
Another had a selection of fruits that would make you proud of their lunch choice.

And with any lunch time gathering...there is discussion.
Today stemmed around crazy or strange things that we have done in the past. Things like jobs where we have worn crazy costumes. Crazy situations we have found ourselves in.
On the first of January stuff.co.nz published an article on crazy stuff that happened in 2007 from around the world. Some of which included…

In an unusual living arrangement, a German man left his dead mother seated in her favourite armchair at their shared home for two years after her death of natural causes at age 92.
Yet not everything that smelled like a corpse was really dead in 2007.
In the German town of Kaiserslautern, police broke into a darkened flat expecting to find a corpse after neighbours complained of a nasty smell seeping out into the hallway.
But instead they found a tenant with very smelly feet asleep in bed next to a pile of extremely foul-smelling laundry.

Unusual diets made headlines in 2007 – such as: "No more crispy duck at Beijing toilets". Food stalls attached to Beijing's public toilets were banned ahead of the Olympics after complaints over toilets with poor sanitation.
Also in China, 66-year-old Jiang Musheng said 40 years of swallowing live tree frogs and rats helped him avoid intestinal pain and made him strong.
British artist Mark McGowan ate a meal of meatballs made from a dead corgi dog in a protest against animal cruelty. He said the corgi, which died from natural causes, tasted terrible.

A German bus driver threw a 20-year-old off because he said she was too sexy for his bus. "He opened the door and shouted 'Your cleavage is distracting me every time I look into my mirror and I can't concentrate on the traffic'," the woman said.

Isn’t this what makes life just that little bit more interesting?

Personally I think God likes things that are strange.
Take the stories of what Jesus did at times. Like the time he made mud and stuck it in someone’s eyes to heal them.
What about Jonah getting swallowed by a whale and then getting spat out again?
What about the way God has brought salvation into the world?

If God wanted some strange definition of normal, I think he would have made us all the same. Nothing would surprise us.
In fact I think we would be boring and life would be boring.

I am grateful that Gods plans are way more cool and exciting than mine.
That he loves variety and the strange.
Just to make things that little bit more interesting.

Something to think about...

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