The Best Food in the World

So there's this food stall in Thailand that makes some of the best food in the world and also holds a lot of memories.

Many years ago when I was on the World Race we stayed at the YWAM base in Bangkok and went to this food stall area almost everyday. It was incredible. Then, at the end of the month, it worked out for me to meet up with my best friend Rob Gosselin in Thailand and we had a glorious time together. I had been ordering one plate of delicious food for about one dollar Canadian. But Rob asked an excellent question "Why not buy three plates of food each meal?". I had never considered that possibility. The food was so delicious, so cheap, and such a glimpse of what the food in heaven might be like that I had to agree that that would be the very best course of action.

So we ate and ate, had the most delicious fruit smoothies for fifty cents, and talked into the night. It became one of my favourite places on earth. A few years later when I did an internship with John Crowder and met Jetaime for the first time I knew that If I was already in Malaysia I might as well go to Thailand and go back to this amazing food stall. It was on the journey to the airport in Malaysia that Jetaime volunteered to drive me and we shared our whole life story, passions, and dreams and started to fall in love. So in some small way, this food stall led me to find my amazing wife!

Haha, and on that journey I travelled such a long way and spent five hours trying to find this place and finally did. But the lady wasn't there that day! Haha, and so I had to wait three more years to come back to Thailand again and try another time. I took my parents and Jetaime. It took us an hour and a half to get there, but we made it! Things looked a little different after seven years, but the stall was still there and I was able to show them one of my favourite places on earth. Afterwards we had an hourlong massage for only six dollars! Such a wonderful place. I'm thankful to God for these moments where you can go back to the places where God blessed you so much in the past and share your joy with others ;)

- David Hepting