Sunday

On Sunday I went to church. It was way across the other side of the city and took more than an hour to get there and we managed to find it OK. We passed the ID check with no problems as well (but I guessed we looked fairly foreign)*.

The guest speaker was Max Lucado. Anyone read his books? Is he a good speaker? Yes he is. He spoke on 'the Lord is my shepherd'. Yes, that's it. He said he was going to share a few thoughts on each of those words which sounded a bit cheesy. But it wasn't.

- the Lord = Yahweh: I am and always will be. We want to project our human feelings onto God　- we change and so must he. We get sick of people and so must he get sick of me. Or bored with me. Or find it hard to forgive me. But he doesn't change.
- is: pretty cool word in this context.
- my: it's between you and him.
- shepherd: he called us all dirty, dumb and defenceless. That about sums up humanity...

* Locals aren't allowed and so you have to prove that you aren't. It seems that the government is happy for foreigners to run the church the way they want as long as only foreigners see it.