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Last weekend was ahhh-mazing!  On Friday night we baked the above cauliflower, potato, pancetta, cheese pastry for dinner and watched I-can't-remember-what. On Saturday we woke late-but-not-too-late, and met a friend and had Prahan market's super delicious Mushroom burgers – really a favourite of mine – as well as mussels which is a rarity because I do not actually like eating mussels. Then we watched many episodes of How To Get Away With Murder. On Sunday we went to church, had a good discussion over lunch, shopped, found new glasses to replace my scratched up ones, and finished the rest of HTGAWM over a homecooked pasta dinner.  It doesn't sound like I did anything extraordinary over the weekend huh ? But it was amazing for me thanks to the much needed rest (and good time with the husband).  Sometimes we look to long holidays and theme parks and big parties for amazingness – sometimes we find them there and rightly so.  But also sometimes the simple

Matthew 4:17 From 2000+ years ago, Jesus was already preaching, "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is near". Was he saying that the kingdom was near, therefore we should repent? Or was He saying that our repentance will bring the kingdom nearer? "Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is on heaven" is brought as repentance is chosen. Matthew 4:18-22 Jesus calls James and John to follow him and "immediately they left the boat and their father and followed him". We humans worry. We worry a lot. What if we do this, then what happens to that? What if we do that, then what happens to this? We feel the need to "bao-ge-liao" (take every single thing) sometimes. But seriously, who can? This passage specifically mentions James and John leaving their father (who was with them at that time). There is no mention of whether their father was a believer or well or anything. That means that that was not the point. The point was that Jesus call