Thursday evening was a quiet one at home, where I watched TV and Soong played music. We read the bible together and went to bed early.
Friday morning was a rush to get ready early. There was no early morning run, or exercise, but I did drive to Hurstville to help MTS out. Being in the office, it felt like nothing had changed. It was like wearing an old slipper again, comfortable and warm. I did some stuff for Annette to help her out with the upcoming conferences, and then I took Murray out for a cup of coffee. It was wonderful to catch up with him again. I have really missed him.
From Hurstville I headed to Erin's house and helped her bake a cake for Rowan's birthday. I spent all afternoon with her, baking, knitting, cooking, chatting and looking after Josie and Rowan. It was super fun just to spend time with her like that. Relaxing and refreshing. I was meant to meet up with Jess and Eve again but both had other things on.
I rushed from Erin's to pick up youth group kids, and then we went to STAND. Kirsty did an amazing job of MC and James did a fantastic talk on "Somebodies and Nobodies" - that Jesus is the somebody who comes to be with us nobodies. It was challenging for me to think, as I focus on my year of investing deeply in a few, about whether I am spending my time with the somebodies or the nobodies, and who I should be spending my time with.
After STAND Christine invited me over, and so I hung out with her and Thom and ate cake for a while.
Saturday was a simple day. I got up early and went for a 12km run. About 10km into my run, my chest began to hurt again so I slowed down to a walk. This is where treadmill running comes in second place to running in the wild. If this was on a treadmill, I would have hopped off straight away, however because I was still 2 - 3 km away from my car, I had no choice but to turn around and walk back.
After my run I went home and had breakfast (banana smoothie) and made Soong breakfast (melted cheese and bacon bbq sauce sandwich). Watched a few episodes of Buffy, did some knitting, had a nap with Soong, rehearsed for church music together, and finally bought bedroom curtains (now I just need the hooks). We went to Po and Goong's house in the evening to have dinner with the family as well and watched a bit of Hairspray on television with the cousins.
Sunday morning I had a lovely sleep in (since when did 8:30am become a sleep in?!). Soong and I went to church early for music rehearsal. I filled in for bass as Peter Lin was going to be busy with baptisms on that day. I don't love playing church music, but it is fun to know that I am helping serve and helping people to be able to sing God's praises at church. I only do it when I'm needed, but it is a joy to serve others.
Baptisms are so encouraging. One of our youth group boys was baptised, and so were a few of our friends. Praise God! I also practiced my Mandarin with Jack at church, so now the challenge is to keep learning new words to have better conversations with him and the other Mandarin speakers at church.
After church Christine and I took Ingrid lunch and we had a really lovely and relaxing afternoon. I didn't end up taking Brit and Gab to church in the evening, which meant I got to spend the evening cooking dinner with Soong (massaman curry), and watching Buffy and knitting.
A simple and relaxing weekend.
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