Living in REAL LIFE

It was so nice today to have a friend and her daughters over.  We are kindred spirits - lovers of John Green, words with friends, a well-written novel, movies that tell stories, and Jesus.  

She's a teacher and busy during the school year.  On her vacations from school we always make a point to have lunch or go shopping one day.  She has grown to become one of "my people" since we met years ago studying Beth Moore's "Esther".  Her daughters adore my boys, and I adore having her girls at my house every now and then.

So, when John Green posted a video of his wife and a friend playing WIKI WARS, I knew this had our name written all over this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLBKXU-sAvI

Harrison wanted to play along, too - he's quite the John Green enthusiast.

We each wrote 16 random words that we thought would have a wikipedia page, so we ended up with 16x3 (you do the math) - unrelated words.  The young ladies drew two cards each round -- one as our starting point the other as our ending point.  Using only wikipedia, we had to link through to the ending page.  How fun! It's too often we left life go by without "playing" in "real life".  

"My people" is my family.  "Our people" are the people that our family share life with.  It's wonderful to have this family that we share life with. It's not all take.  It's not all give.  It's not one of us - it is every member of their family caring for every member of their family -- and vice versa. And, doing it in REAL LIFE. 

Blessed.