Expanding our horizons

It is often useful to take a step back from the way you live your life and attempt to view things from a different perspective. In the Christian life this can help us to live more for Christ as we begin to see the big picture and live accordingly. Aside from spiritual gain, it can also be fun to seek new experiences, expand our horizons and improve our health. The 3 Cosmestons (including myself) have been exploring new ways to expend our energy.

1. The ‘challenge of the month’ is the new hot topic in our household. The current challenge is to drink the recommended 2 litres per day, noting our progress on a wall chart and receiving a star if we are successful. Measuring the volume of each of the variety of cups in our house was just the beginning of the fun.

2. Pursuing novel tastes from foreign cultures. For example, this evening we explored the Scottish delicacy of haggis. Contrary to popular belief, haggis does not contain any of the following: monkey eyeballs, pig trotters or squirrel tails.

3. Re-initiating previously unexploited words into circulation in general conversation. We couldn’t help but perambulate over our choices, but due to our callow nature, we felt we had to avail ourselves of the lexicon.

4. Recapturing our childhood. Now is the time to rediscover the precious crazes of our childhood generation! Last night, along with the Arrans, we revived the delight of ‘Buckaroo’! For those of you who have forgotten/never experienced this superb family game, it involves carefully loading small plastic items onto a donkey until it bucks; terrifying the faint hearted (i.e. Shumi) and causing everyone to scream. Apparently you’re also supposed to shout “Buckaroo” and the first person to do so is the winner; however, Liz and Becky refrained from informing the rest of us until after the first few rounds (we did wonder why they kept randomly shouting “Buckaroo”).