I've been praying again . . .

In the middle of all my busy activity over the past several weeks I found it easy to loose sight of the fact that most of it would rank very low on my personal list of priority items and the fact that almost none of it applies to the passionate vision for the emerging generations that God has planted within me. Having awakened to this reality a few days ago, I began praying at a deeper level (I'll post some cool quotes from Henri Nouwen later) about it all. I prayed specifically that God would give me some direction in what my next steps ought to be.

Long story short, Michelle and I had been invited over to a family's home for lunch after church yesterday. Nice family, interesting people, o.k. But wow, what an eye opener! As the pre-lunch, lunch, and post-lunch conversation wore on, it turned out to be a 4+ hour sharing of hearts at a deep and powerful level. It would have been longer except for the fact that I had another meeting to go to. The amazing thing to me was that Michelle and I both got some pretty clear words of direction out of it that we never would have expected from these particular people.

It was another one of those experiences of the body of Christ in a small, intimate environment that makes me realize that all you house church guys really are as smart as you sound in your blogs. The intimacy and beauty of people drinking deeply of God's love together was awesome for us, and definitely left me wanting more.

That's all.