Thursday, December 09, 2004
On Tuesday a supplier of Tip Top took some of their clients out on a boat for the day. It was a 2.5 million dollar 24 m Italian masterpiece called the Pacific Jemm. A Jemm was with 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, BBQ, dining room, lounge etc etc. There was a chief on board and wait staff. We ate beautiful food and drank beautiful drink (Evian and OJ for me). It was an amazing experience to see how the other half live. I had an excellent time but got a bit overwhelmed towards the end of the day. It was a bit weird being a couple of feet away from a bottle of drink but getting someone else to fill your glass for you. I felt a bit uncomfortable making someone else do something so simple for me. It felt a bit elitist and wrong.

It is really the exact opposite of the example Christ gave us. Most people in life are striving to live a life like I did for one day, having else wait on you. But as Christians our goal is the exact opposite, we aim to serve others. For Hamish and I our ‘career’ and life choices will result in the exact opposite of this. A friend said to me after I told him about the day ‘well I hoped you enjoyed cause it won’t be anything like that when you are a pastors wife’. Good I thought I didn’t really like it anyway. I think I would much rather pour the drinks, I know I would feel better at the end of the day.

Anita posted at 9:26 pm