Ok, so Mandy is over today and I asked her what she had for breakfast. She said porridge, which she typically has. I said, scones. And she said, what?! Why would you have scones for breakfast?
This is what we call a culture clash. In England, a scone is eaten with one's afternoon tea, with clotted cream and jam on it. In America, a scone looks like what we call a biscuit which is eaten at breakfast, usually a full breakfast with eggs and bacon and sausage etc. What the Brits call a full fry up. So to me it makes perfect sense to eat a scone at breakfast but to my husband and friends it looks weird, out of place, out of context. It tastes the same. So what's the problem?
So I'm explaining all this to Mand, how in America we don't have a tea time around 4 p.m. where scones are acceptably eaten, which she gets.
But then I think what all do I miss out on because I think to myself, this is the wrong time or place to do this or have that? Am I tuned in to God's culture (what some people call the Kingdom) so I can live outside my cultural box (or the one I am transplanted into) and experience what He has for me today or for the person sitting next to me?
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