If Christians have one natural talent it is this thing – they can cook. Actually, two things – they can cook.....and they can eat! (Boy, can they eat.)

We have three children but there never did seem a time when they were growing up, that we did anything else at meal times than put five dinners on the table that would have fed five adults. Our kids always had really good appetites. (that's Christian talk for they were greedy little gannets!)

We had recently enjoyed an invitation to eat at one couple's house. ..and eat , we did. I think they must have thought they had been hit by a plague of locusts, rather than two adults and three small children.

We had been discussing how well the children ate and how much they liked their food, one time with some friends at our church. The following Sunday morning one of the ladies from the church approached us and handed us a huge dish (about the size that would hold a large roast turkey) on which was the largest rasberry pavlova you ever did see.

“How kind of you.” said my wife.
“Mmmmmm.” said the kids.

Sundays were usually the only day we would have a dessert after our main meal. And on Sundays we always had (and still do have) a delicious roast dinner – chicken, lamb or sometimes turkey.

I don't recall which it was that particular Sunday but whatever it was, as usual, we made light of it and as usual there was nothing left after we had finished eating.