An Old Friend Coming Home (or over for dinner)

The shouts of excitement were coming from my house on Thursday when finally, after long last, a new episode of The Office was shown. There were shouts, but not during the actual show, during the show we had the quiet game going on so that we wouldn't miss any of this first new episode since October.

Only a few things surpass this feeling.

1. Knowing Christ
2. Marriage to Allie
3. Birth of Drew
4. Others knowing Christ
5. New Episodes of The Office
6. Fresh Brownies
   

It really did feel like an old friend coming home. I missed it. We celebrated with some students, friends, and fresh brownies (#6 on the above list). We watched every moment, laughing through the whole thing (that was the only sound tolerated during the quiet game). The episode started at 8 and ended at 8:30 with the obligatory commercials thrown in. It was great, but at 8:30 I was left feeling like my old friend left too early. It was great, but not fulfilling or like a line from Rounders "I was so unsatisfied". I wanted more.

I think it points to something. I think it points to my insatiable appetite...and yours...and every humans for that matter. We can never be completely satisfied by what we crave because that thing we crave has limits. That is of course unless that thing we crave is limitless, unless that thing we crave is eternal, unless that thing we crave is alpha and omega, beginning and end. Only then are we going to find satisfaction because He goes on and on, as deep as we can go He is infinitely deeper. He is the great God, the limitless one who is a "fountain of living water" (Jeremiah 2.13).

The Office is great, our God is greater.

"If you don't have plans you can come over for dinner tonight, you don't have plans you just said so a minute ago." - Michael Scott (To Jim)