Archive for March, 2008
Hiding colored food products over and over
As Family members we are not supposed to fully blend into our culture (I read somewhere about being “in” but not “of” this world…). No matter where you live I think we are called to do this. I think this is one way to let the Light shine through us. I certainly don’t have this figured out. I just think that our little family lives in such a place that we are CONSTANTLY aware that we are being observed. Everything we put in our cart at the grocery store, everything we order at a restaurant, how we talk to our kids, etc. It is just part of life here. Now to be fair, even as foreigners we stand out. Four kids is three more than the average here. Two Asian daughters – one from China and one from Korean. We are begging to get stared at just by leaving our apartment.
Sometimes we don’t understand the fascination. But sometimes, if we are honest with ourselves, we truly do some crazy things. Stay with me here. Last weekend, we boiled eggs, dipped them in different colored dye, then headed to a nearby public park. The kids looked the other way while we proceeded to hide these eggs behind trees, under rocks, in bushes and behind signs. Then we said “go”. Our kids then scrambled to locate the colored food products we just hid from them. We repeated several times. And in the end we still didn’t eat them. Who does this? How would this not be considered odd? As you can imagine we had countless people look on with wonder. One guy saw me putting a bright purple egg in a tree. His English was pretty good and asked what I was doing. In the most simple English I could muster, I attempted to explain how this activity was linked to the meaning behind Easter (please pause now and try this on a friend). I am sure he left more confused.
All that to say we are all being watched whether we know it or not. And regardless of how bizarre it looked we had a great time enjoying this age-old,albeit odd, tradition of an Easter Egg hunt.
One person’s normal is another’s blog post,
- Dan
Sara & Zach/ Zach, Aunt Rachel & Noah
Dan & Hannah
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