Worship

It's always refreshing worshipping on Sunday with the body of believers in Jesus Christ. It's nice to see how people of different races, backgrounds, come together as one group as a sort of family. Here in our area we see many more people of different races married together in the church (Indian husband/French wife, Japanese husband/Taiwanese wife, etc.) than in the society as a whole. If this keeps up, maybe we'll see the end of identity politics in the U.S. some day.

How different the world is. Near our church 1 or 2 neighbors on a street have suddenly started putting trashcans and lawn chairs outside on the street so people would not park in front of their house. I don't understand the fuss. It's nothing new, the church has been there for a while. It's just for 3 short hours and it's not as if the families are rowdy or are going to throw beer cans. The neighbors don't even use the parking spaces themselves. Ah...NIMBYism, but we should just be nice and bless those that curse us. The pastor has asked people to comply with their requests and I'm happy to do so. The only way is to make an enemy a friend.

Our smallest one was too well behaved at church today. He played nicely with the other children, offered food to one of them, and even picked up the toys and eagerly put them away as I directed him. It must be that flu going around.