House of Lights

Theology Fellowship was really fun last night, as is the case most Thursday nights. Our entire meal consisted of Trader Joe's yumminess :) And since we're discussing prayer at the moment, we did a manuscript study on one of the Paul's prayers to the Ephesians, found in Eph 3:16-19. I hadn't done a manuscript study in quite awhile, so it was really good to get back into that and we had many good conversations.

Afterwards, I looked up at the ceiling and asked John why there were so many hooks in the living room ceiling. He explained that when he lived in the house as a member of Bethany's Intentional Community, he and Kurt decided to have a House of Lights one night. They cleared out all the furniture on the main level of the house, brought in some small round tables and chairs, a stage and sound system, and had people manning the kitchen all night. And they also lit the entire first floor of the house with only candles and the fireplace, including hanging colored glass votives and candles from the ceiling, causing light to reflect off the ceiling and create colorful, dancing circles on the tables and floor. They served wine, gourmet appetizers and desserts, and people from Bethany read poetry, shared music, Scripture, etc. I guess John and Kurt actually held it twice while living in the house, but haven't had a chance to do it again since. Well, now that the house contains only offices in the basement and has no furniture on the first floor, we're planning on doing another House of Lights! Except, this time, John will have lots more help, since all of us in Theology Fellowship are really jazzed about the idea. We also talked about the idea of having the youth group offer their babysitting services in the Fellowship Hall so that the adults can just drop them off at the church and literally walk two houses down to spend the evening, and that way, all babysitters are taken care of and the youth group can make a little cash for various mission trips and such. Now the plan is to have a House of Lights sometime in late Nov or the beginning of December, which will be really fun with the holidays and such. I'm excited :)

Not much else going on. I've been working, housesitting, and babysitting, as well as been playing lots of Scrabble (I beat Emi by 164 last week!) and hanging out. It's been good.