The Facts Of Life

Weddings remind us of priorities...that it really does matter we love, hold hands, blow bubbles in the wind and laugh. Sometimes I miss the details because the big picture fails me. Get the sermon finished, hold the cell group, write, talk to people. But sitting at the reception next to friends and laughing and talking about silly things like "Lost" and wedding cermonies gone bad, I was brought back to living. It is not having converstations so that I can "build community" or "grow the church", it is having conversations because that is good, friends are good and cracking up is good. Love isn't the easiest thing we do and enough of the time doing something about it is a chore. But when we laugh and breathe deeply together..and drink vanilia milkshakes out of the same germy straw, the rough edges of being smooth out a bit...rough edges like the big picture...like making our kids right, our wife or husband right, making our friends right, our cell group right, our church right, ourselves right. Thanks Will and Erin for another chance at life. It was fun.

But may the righteous be glad and rejoice before God; may they be happy and joyful.
Psalm 68:3 NIV