Don’t worry if you’re not into football. this is not a big footbally blog. It’s not going to be a blog entry of any significant size anyway, because I’ve got some ‘family ministry’ to do.
I’ve been banging on a bit about family life and one element that has been interesting in my family fortunes is the opportunity to engage in shared enjoyed pastimes. We as children loved music and that’s how we got our own little singing group together for a bit. We never sang as a family though. In fact as a whole family I don’t recall that many activities we did together in a ‘leisure’ capacity other than watch television and even there rare was the programme that would allow all five of us to sit together. Dad only watched athletics (sometimes) and Mastermind – he was not a television guy at all, which was a good influence for me during my university years.
I’m not saying we should have been wining and dining and playing every game under the sun as a family, but I guess it would have been good for our sense of fun to have been embedded from that family perspective.
As it is now, I am lot more comfortable doing little physically. I’m not into playing sports, particularly. I do go out with the girls when they want to go to the park and push them on the swings and all of that. Other than that, I’m not teaching the girls how to play football or anything, but I love the little outings that we as a family make to go out and have something to eat or join in with others to do the same. Now that Abigail is gaining more an awareness of the English language (I can get her to stop talking … because she has to sleep at some point) there’s always the games to play like Monopoly, Trivial Pursuit and of course the glorious Charades.
What this has to do with football is that one of the beautiful things about linking with Authrine was her interest in football. She’s not well into it. She doesn’t follow the teams and things like that, but when it’s come to the tournaments over our time together, from the 2004 Euro Championships straight through til this one, she’s always been there to watch the matches and engage in banter on it. As yet Deborah has not been converted to the joys of football, but Abigail will tolerate it, which of course is the crucial first step.
So it’s good to know what ways to get the family together away from praying, eating and enjoying my great jokes to really enjoy the fullness of life together.
For His Name’s Sake
Shalom
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