6-11 update

Hey everybody! We had a fabulous time this last Thursday night at McAllister Center. We spent the first little bit discussing one thing we hate about our society. It was interesting to hear what bugs people - from grumpy customers to incompetent and immature bosses and from governmental stupidity to bad drivers who text and smoke and drive at the same time - we fumed and laughed together!

We then spent some time noticing how cool God is. This is so fun and strengthening in a world filled with out of controlness (is that a word?) - to notice how big God is and to focus on how much He loves us. It makes things better. This time our time focused our attention on 3 bottles - one with dirt (actually mud), one with water, and one empty (or if you will, with air/sunshine). What do these 3 things mean to us in regard to noticing the bigness of God? This is all plants need (other than the seed) to grow. All that we are surrounded with, the complexity of all the spring and summer growth and trees and flowers and everything need only sun, dirt, and water. This is amazing! It is so wonderfully simple and yet so remarkably complex - it is a gift of a loving God to His people - the beauty of creation screams His love for us and this makes life so much more wonderful - if we take the time to notice it/Him.

Next, we spent more than usual time on noticing each other. We believe that by sharing things that are going on in our lives with each other and then talking to God about them that He helps us deal with the problems. We shared concerns and things going on in our lives - both anonymously and together this time - we very much respect each other's privacy and so don't expect anyone to be more involved than they want to, but it was good to have some people care about us other than what we can provide to them. These people care because they have experienced the caring of God in their lives. We then exchanged slips of paper (those who wanted to) with something to talk to God about for the 2wks until we meet again to support each other. It was good.

I must confess that here we shared bread and drink together and then left. We had gotten such a late start that we ran out of time. It was a fabulous time of noticing - we loved it and left much more rested and encouraged than we started.

We will be hanging out again 6/25, 6:45-8:00PM at McAllister Center - 20th and Schuyler in Lafayette - hope you can join us!