It’s a beautiful Sunday here in Adelaide – it’s been a cloudy day today and the air is cool. I’ve just checked the Bureau of Meteorology‘s website and it says that the maximum temperature was only 20.6C at about 4.40pm. It’s about 5.15pm at the moment and I’m drinking some delicious Indian chai tea – Bob Koehne from UniSA gave some when I invited him and Jill over for a barbeque last month. It’s spicier than the normal chai that’s sold here in Adelaide – so it’s almost similar to the Indonesian STMJ (susu-telur-madu-jahe: milk-egg-honey-ginger). I’m also listening to some soothing music, played by Norwegian Radio Orchestra – at the moment they’re playing Edvard Grieg’s “Lyric Suite, Op. 54”.
It’s a nice break after I washed the dishes, threw some papers and rubbish out, did the laundry and watered the backyard – the house is still in a mess, but it’s tolerable mess. It makes it homey. Haha. I will get it nice and tidy again sometime soon. I started today by going to my morning service at ‘The Edge‘ church – I really like it there. Great teachings that do not focus on wealth and prosperity – they encourage the churchgoers to give, but do not push nor consistently hammer the plea. There’s another big church here in Adelaide who I used to go to much more frequently in the past, and it disappointed me when one of the pastors once said that our offerings were akin to investments (which I don’t disagree with), but then he said that we should invest in the right place to give us the returns that we wanted and that the right place was *that* particular church. Hmmmm – where did Jesus ever tell us to give our offerings only in one particular church?
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