Emerging ourselves in... Rice!

This week i am in Wellington with a beautiful group of friends-- we have meet all year since Feb to discuss what mission, serving, faith, God, injustice and other curly things mean. Not only what they mean, but also what what they have to do with us. This is, I belive a key thing for us to think about-- Who is God, what is his purposes and plans, what does he think, and then how do i fit into all of this. The bible tells us that Loving God and each other is the main point of life, so then how do we do that?

So back to being in Wellington, we have driven down and are staying at Nathan and Naomis-- they live in a drop in centre/ community prayer house/ and general hub of hospitality. Today, We were luckly to have a sleep in, but soon enough the rice was on the stove-- rice for breakfast? Aha, we have taken to eating rice for meals that we are home for, so instead of meat and veges and yummy cereal- we are eating rice. Though we have our moments of wondering why, we have come to the following conclusions about it.

*We are not in a thrid world country so no, we are not trying to imitate being 'poor'!
*We are surrounded by so manny luxuries, so the act of eating rice, is an act of simplifying our lives a little. We have so much, simple is just better.
*the amount we would spend on really good food, could be spent better else where. So we are donating some of the money we saved from not being to over indugent.

IT is only a week after all, we will go back to eating good food, but maybe we will reflect more on just how much we have, and how sometimes its just not that necessary. In our culture we seem to think that spending heaps is ok, but when we stand outside and look in, we could probably live a little more simply!

We also went marching around Wellington for most of the day with $20, our feet or a bus, and appointments that were ages away from each other and impossible to find! Once again, living the life of someone differnt to myself was eye opening- with no car, finances to sort, doctors appointments for kids to make, and a tight budget- I now have more understanding about lifestyles in New Zealand (the good stuff and the tough stuff!)

Ill be checking in each day with a report-- so keep posted!