Ok, I have 18 minutes left, type fast.
Five days away from our second anniversary, wow, praise God. 10 days away from my 32nd birthday.
I have more blogs in my journal, waiting to be typed, but I have been on this computer for 3.5 hrs already and am tired.
We were in Morrumbala, near Lake Malawi for two weeks. Played with orphans and did some food outreaches. This time was incredible.
Our final night at the World Vision headquarters, I taught Jake how to make a beautiful log cabin fire with the teepee on top. Light it at the top and see how she burns. She was beautiful. Then we had a time of thanking God and some communion.
As I watched the fire, and daydreamed, while people talked, (in times when the ‘floor’ is open I get quiet and start daydreaming, just another perk of ADD.) I wondered if it was ok to give Jesus a wedgie. Is it ok to joke about? Is it sacreligious?
In the parable of the sheep and the goats, Jesus says I was hungry and you fed me, thirsty and you gave me something to drink….. This, to me, shows that our faith in Jesus is supposed to be evident in our lives. That if we truly believe in Jesus, trust the red letters, then this needs to show up in how we live. Jesus doesn’t simply say “try not to swear”, or “don’t dance”, or “alcohol is evil”, he says what ever you have done to the least of these, you have done to me. We show our faith in Jesus by reaching out to the hurting and hungry, lame and blind. (not by bombing them and taking their oil, or by driving a gas guzzler with christian bumper stickers, what about owning a dog that eats more than a family of refugees in a day?)
So I thought about ‘the least of these’, and hoped that giving a wedgie was giving love. I am not sure the orphans had ever had the pleasure of receiving a wedgie, but now they have a new game. The laughs and giggles as cotton gets picked out of the bum is something I will never forget.
As I thought about giving and receiving wedgies as a kid, and how funny it was, I remember “nature wedgies” where a handful of whatever sticks and stones, sand, pine cones or acorns could be grabbed was put in the undies before being yanked over the victims head. Or hostess wedgies (snack cakes, getting the frosting out is a huge chore). Now, we have a new one, “Jesus wedgies”.
