Today was an up & down kind of day. We started with a 2 hour delay due to some beautiful fresh snow, which meant sleeping in, breakfast with the kids and some Bible reading. It also meant I missed 2 meetings because I had to shovel the beautiful fresh snow off the driveway.
But once I got into my rhythm today I had several good/great meetings and conversations. I got to talk with several men about our hopes and dreams, our plans and strategies for church and faith and life…and it was good.
Then I came home, and something went awry. I was fussy with Kim and distracted with the kids and a little put out because Isaac asked for help with homework the moment I walked in the door.
I wolfed down some food and jetted back out the door, off to my second helping of lifegroup for the week. The snow may have kept some folks away tonight; our group was about half the size I expected. My breakout/smaller group consisted of me and 3 young men.
And that was a God-thing.
We shared some real, vulnerable, transparent, God-redeemed parts of our lives, talked about where we’re praying for breakthrough, and let the walls down. I thought it might be an early night; we left the place at 10:30!
I got in the WonderVan, dialed up some of my “go-to” worship music, and cut loose! The presence of Jesus is the heart-healing, hope-dealing, future-sealing, dream-revealing that I need…that we all need. And I landed there tonight. Tooling down the bypass, full-voice and a little swervy, I had me a moment with the King of kings and Lord of lords.
Now someone should probably ask me if I apologized to Kim and Team Sublett for bringing the funk (no, not the good kind of funk) into the fam last night. Who’s got that?
2 Comments
Dan · January 17, 2013 at 12:14 pm
Okay. Did you?
stacy · January 17, 2013 at 2:59 pm
Yep, I sure did! First thing this morning. Talked about it this afternoon on the way to meet with you and the other city-church pastors, too. Thanks for asking!