A Fun Filled Evening

With occasions far and few in between, gatherings are attended with great excitement, to add to our dwindling memories. The dreaded covid, struck at the heart of our social activities and as we are slowly emerging from the trauma, we look forward to any reason to meet.

On this evening, we were invited, to bless the new home of a dear friend, Suzie. Dressed in our best, adorned with those trinkets we had put away, we arrived, each more beautiful than the other. After the initial joy of greeting one another we settled down to enjoy the evening.

Starting with a prayer to bless the home, the place that gave birth to a fledgling bible study group, that has grown into a sizeable number. Dwelling on the memories from the past, those bygone days of spiritual energy, strong fellowship which has slowly ebbed, with the constraints of the past two years.

After the prayers , we gathered around the table, laden with delicacies. Starting from one end moving down,tasting each dish, forgetting our otherwise stringent diets, we ate to our heart’s content. It was a moment of release, from the strait jacket that our lives had become, since the pandemic.

Not heeding the disturbance to neighbors, we laughed loudly, talked brashly, shrugging off all restrictions, we were a noisy lot. Regaling each other with tales from the past, some real and some fantasy, we had a splendid evening. Finally, spent and outstaying our welcome, we reluctantly left, with promises of meeting again soon, over ragada patties and imili chutney .