In the words of Annabelle, “So much good!”
For starters, so many things went haywire with us getting ready for midtown. We were missing people from just about every team. Kim had 3 teachers down with the flu. A high school ministry retreat took away several of our best set-up/tear down guys. Almost our entire hospitality team was MIA. As if that weren’t enough, there was an indoor field hockey tourney taking place in the building with us! But people stepped up to the need, and it turned out to be a great morning of worship and teaching. Plus, everybody in the place got to pray for Dan Nold and the guys traveling with him to a foreign land. That was sweet.
Sunday afternoon was pretty low-key. It ended up being me, Kim, and Annabelle sitting around in the kitchen. We had a chance to re-tell our adoption story to her, and she was able to understand so much more of it (she’s been here a little over a year.) Toward the end, Josie drifted in, so we kept telling the story, including this new chapter with her in it. It’s amazing to think that because of our connection with a family on our trip to get Annabelle we wound up being uniquely positioned to adopt Josie. God is so excellent at coincidences! I found myself getting choked up all afternoon. The killer was when Annabelle said that she plans to adopt kids some day herself.
Levi was one of those high school ministry absentees over the weekend. He came back today, and hasn’t stopped talking about the weekend yet! I can hear him in his bed, mumbling in his sleep about a volleyball tourney, or the speaker’s great stories, or time bonding with his boys. I was about his age when I started to take my relationship with Jesus seriously. I don’t know if this is the post-retreat afterglow, but he seems to have really done some heart work with Jesus over the weekend.
At the end of the day, my heart is full. My tear-wells are a little emptier, but I imagine they’ll be ready to go by tomorrow. So much good…
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