A year later, we can sit around a table together and dialogue, debate, joke and be serious. Behind-the-counter. No one's prescribing this, this is real community. Community that won't shun if we disagree, there is indeed freedom to disagree and encouragement to disagree. This is community that won't have to "replicate" and disband. This I community that says, "we've walked through garbage and trial and we can still stand by one another. Looking back, the dissolution of our church is actually a small part of this group of friends. Financial difficulty, surgery, surprise pregnancies, new babies. Disappointment and rejoicing. Despair and amazement.
That God would provide a consistent group of friends who I look to as my sisters and brothers, my kids' aunts and uncles, is simply amazing to me. Losing these relationships was the biggest thing I was worried about a year ago. And to see the tender care with which God has dealt with me in this area makes me feel so loved and cherished.
I am remembered
By God
I am prioritized
By God
I am loved
By God
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