Painting Pictures, Bike Outing, and Movie

I wanted to show you a couple of the pictures from the Tuesday-Wednesday painting project. I have to say that I really like the pink bike seat and think it could really catch on in the States, but for now it might serve as a landmark for the Centre - "meet me on street 178 where the cyclo with the pink seat is". I rode a bike to the Centre today and for all the talk I have chattered on about for the last 2 1/2 weeks about how crazy traffic is here I just jumped right into the fray today. I passed a bus on the right side even though it had its right turn blinker on. I darted out into intersections that had traffic coming from both the left and right - just trusting the other drivers to avoid me. I rode up onto sidewalks and into oncoming traffic. Then when I finally got there and walked into the Daughters Visitors Centre one of the staff said, "why are you so wet?"

Today I finished the series of financial workshops. This last one was titled "The Power of Community". We talked about how God makes each one of us unique and that He loves us so much that He has engraved our name (each of our names) into the palms of His hands. That because we are unique that means that we have experienced some things that no one else and that we also have some unique gifts/talents. But that alone we can only do so much. Using the example of wanting to start our own clothing line we talked about someone who is an excellent sewer, but they need a designer, someone else to is good at finding the right fabrics at a good price, and someone to advertise and sell the products. That requires us to work together in community. We looked at Matthew 14 and 15 where Jesus feeds 5,000 and 4,000 people with very little food. We talked about how so often things seem impossible to us, but that they are never impossible for God. It did take, though, the sharing of the bread and fish, God's blessings, the disciples belief, and then after they were fed they collected more than they probably started with. So, we shared how when we live and work together in community and seek God's blessings that He multiplies what we put in much more than we can imagine. "The whole is greater than the sum of the parts" (that is where Danet, the Khmer interpreter, gave me a puzzled look).

Tonight I am joining some friends for my first movie in the last 3 weeks (other than the 10 movies I saw on the long flight over). I am going to see "Argo" again. I am wondering if this will be in English with Khmer subtitles or in Khmer with English subtitles. Either way, I am glad I have seen it before!

The best Tomato Basil Soup I have ever had! Sugar and Spice Café



PS - I did buy a new pair of jeans today! I know that has got to be exciting news to all of you, but really it is exciting news for me. Yep, I am wearing them (debut) to the movie tonight.