The Casual

Be led upward.

 

Since our semester is over (well, apart from the internship starting in two weeks), one of our teachers asked us if we’d be interested in going out for lunch this week to celebrate. People picked the place and we figured out who’d be coming. A fellow student came to me and told me that I should open my house to give another option to those who were not interested in alcohol and the kind of lunch we were going to have. Interesting.

 

How could I say no. I’m a party-pooper myself (no surprise eh) so I organized a “Casual”. That’s how I’ve been calling the “event”. People from my class who aren’t interested in the lunch can come to my place tomorrow. We’ll eat lunch together and then eat some Pepper and Spices Cake and enjoy some tea. Oh, we’ll be playing boardgames too.

 

You can pray about it. It’s not that I love hanging out with university people, they’re nice people for sure, but you know how it is probably. But I want to use this opportunity to have unbelievers at my place and so create a new atmosphere, a place where people will feel welcome and hopefully will open doors for us to have meaningful conversations about God and His Word. They’ll read plenty of verses in my room and in the kitchen. They’ll ask questions about the missionaries posted on the wall, we’ll, hopefully.

 

We’re on the third floor. So I made a little sign on the second floor level, in the stairs when you come in. I wrote “The Casual” and then there’s a hand that points upward and at the bottom I wrote, “Be led upward” (upward because they have to go up the stairs). My hope is that the Casual can lead them upward. Yes, I do allow myself to dream. But I’ll be spending the next two and a half years with them at university, so I’ll probably be doing more of these Casuals and hopefully, it’ll bring the upward, not just to the third floor, but to God.