2. I love hosting stuff.
3. I love good people [aka, friends]
Well? How about we host our friends for small group, in which we can all serve the Lord, and each other, at the same time?
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| fun with cups [just some] of our small group attendees |
Tonight was our first gathering of our small group extension that will be meeting at our house on a bi-weekly basis. As always, I felt that anticipated flurry as I flew around my house cleaning up little last minute things for everyone that would be by. It's always nervewrecking when a group of people come to your house and you know it's messy. I'll be the first to tell you I couldn't really care less if your house is in disarray when I get there, but I am über self-conscious about you seeing mine in pristine condition. Seems a bit mal-aligned with reality being that I always have a 2-year-old, but hey, we did all right tonight.
So we found ourselves surrounded by Julie, Becky, the Gobles, the Babots and the Prescotts, seated around our living room following what I'll gracefully describe as stuffing our faces full of delicious food. [Oh, and note the fun scribble-label cups I bought on accident but will absolutely buy again!] We took advantage of our first night together as a group to share some testimonies and what we all would all hope to gain from our upcoming meetings together.
Let me pause here to say how thankful I am that we are afforded nights like these: to gather freely, without fear of legal or political consequence, without secrecy, to worship together and build on and from the people sitting next to us. What a blessing. Hallelujah, AMEN.
Because the content of our small group discussions holds agreed-upon confidentiality to the walls of our meetings, I won't share any of it here, but I will say that the respect I thought I had for each of those people in the room tonight tripled, at the least, and I spent the majority of the time in silent praise for the voices and testimonies we heard tonight.
I can't wait to see where this leads us. We're truly going to miss the other couples and individuals we would usually see every other week from the big group, but we'll see them soon enough ;).
Happy weekend, by the way!
xo | cmd
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