It was such a loaded weekend. It was really good and at the same time, it was distressing.
It was really good because I had dinner with 2 really good mates of mine here in Melbourne, on Saturday and Sunday. It was distressing however, because it is one of those weekends where the family members you have suspected of not getting along were confirmed to be in confrontation with each other.
Unfortunately the Sun night dinner was intertwined with this “family discord”.
The weekend started out reasonably well. Tress, Kiddo and I decided to on Friday to just remain in the city after work/school and have dinner there. After dinner we walked around a bit, and decided to shop for Kiddo’s shoes for the upcoming wedding next weekend.
We spent about an hour walking around, got her shoes and went back home for a DVD. We watched this movie with Daniel Craig as Tuvia Belski. He and his brother Zus (played by Liev Schreiber) lead a Jewish resistance movement against Nazi occupation in Belorussia/Poland. It wasn’t bad, but I had trouble recalling what the movie was called so it isn’t particularly memorable either. We watched “Up” about 1-2 weeks ago and it was such a memorable movie, especially the opening scene with the storks and the clouds.
The next morning Tress and I went for coffee and brekky at Coffee Club as per usual, after dropping off some dry cleaning. We then made our way to church for some spring cleaning and ridding off some hard rubbish. That took us through till almost 4pm. Jason and I caught up and had a bit of a chat about the goings on in church. I’m just sad and a bit lost given my own thoughts and plans recently.
We got home just after 4, I pottered around the garden a little bit, then had a cold one before leaving for dinner at Alex’s. We had a good time, as always, talking and this time we stayed up late – it was almost 12 when we got home.
I had to be up early the next day to cook for a church lunch. At lunch Jason and chatted a little bit more, before the issue he talked about played out on the very same day and later in the evening as well.
Right after lunch kiddo had one of her nose bleed situations so we stayed on a bit till the damn cleared. We got home around 2.30, I did some work and then around 4.30 Alex showed up in his toy – a Mercedes SLK200. I took it for a quick spin, came back and shared a beer with him on our deck. This is life, but the topic of conversation wasn’t great – it was still on the goings on in church.
That night we went to Jason’s house for dinner and chatted again. Again we ended up going home late – close to 11. I caught the first half of United’s game against City, little did I know the drama which was to unfold in the second half.
But here I am, a little broken hearted. With my thoughts on The Elijah Challenge and wondering where this will take the church and its implications on my family and I, the last thing I imagined would be events overtaking me. Greater turmoils unrelated to my opinions were and are boiling. Like Jason said, we probably have to brace ourselves for a “white knuckled ride” for the foreseeable future. I don’t really want to come along for this ride but to walk away now will be unthinkable.
Ante 