How's it going?

How's it going? We hope with you it is good. With More than more, things are going well. Last Thursday we met at McAllister. It was a great time of hanging out - no high pressure - no fanciness...just a time of enjoying time together, and looking at God, who is the best.

We started with chatting and chilling out a little, to the question (posed by my friend Rick) "If you could be a super hero, which one would you be?" After laughing our way through the answers, from mom to superman, we had some time of looking at how cool and big our God is.

This week we spent time looking at how amazing our sense of touch is. We closed our eyes and touched cotton, jello, warm water, rice, sand. We thought about how amazingly our sense of touch is made...and how wonderful each of those feelings is on our fingers. We pondered the memories that arise as we feel sand and all that those conjure in us. We thought about how good it feels to be touched when you're sick...how sometimes it feels better than all the medicine int he world. In the middle of all this, we celebrated the God who gave us such an amazing sense and all the wonderful touches there are in the world - from the skin of babies, to the heat of the shower, to the crunch of the leaves in our hands. Then to consider how life can take on a different view if we notice this every day...this tends to build a friendship with God! It was a fun time.

Then we took some time talking and praying over things going on in our lives. We believe that sharing our concerns with each other and then talking to God (this is praying) about them invites Him into them and into our lives as we live them and that this helps a lot - it does not always make all our issues resolve or problems solve, but when He is in them with us, they are better somehow - hard to explain. This time is always gently done - all shared stays within the group - no one is made to feel they "should" share, but having people around who actually are trustworthy and care for no other reason except that they care, provides a place to share in safety if people want to.

We then celebrated the happiness of being friends with God and hung out and talked for a while, leaving slowly to our homes.

We will do something similar to this again on 10/30 - at 6:45PM-8:00PM at McAllister Center in Lafayette. As always, there will be free/fun childcare. We hope you can make it!
(Here is the google maps link: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=McAllister+Center+Lafayette+Indiana&ie=UTF8&z=9)