Charlie sent me a text at 11:45 pm. Now it is nearly 1:00 am and I'm still awake. Charlie is 20 something...I am not. Charlie, 11:45 is too late to send your best friend's mom a text. But I love you anyway.
Charlie was part of the 20 something gang that descended on Holland this week for Amanda and Nate's wedding. This wedding also brought our son Caleb and wife Sonja to town. We got to play host to several of their friends. This meant our house was filled with fun and laughter, comings and goings.
There was a campfire in the back yard Thursday night as people gathered for the weekend. Good food and drink, and life stories to share. Ten people crowded the breakfast table on Saturday morning and we heard more about the life of these 20 somethings:
Kelly has just returned from a year with YWAM in Bolivia and Brazil...what's next?
Stan finishes up law school in December and wonders, what's next.
Lindsay reported on life in Atlanta, working for DOW Chemicals.
Skates just got back from touring with a jazz band in Italy and France, and talked about the music he is making and writing.
James is hunting for the next job after interning and working with SoJourners in DC.
Kelsey is finishing up at Hope this year.
Charlie shared his engagement story, and about life on the farm in Virginia with Katie...and then?
Sonja helped us understand her work with Arabella and philanthropists and non-profit organizations.
And Caleb talked about The Table, the new church plant he works with in DC, and Williams wedding in Uganda.
This is an amazing group! They are each so unique and gifted in such different ways, but they are united in heart and by the Spirit. They are a Christ Community spread around the United States and at times the world.
These young people inspire me to greater things! They witness to the wonderfully diverse ways God engages His people in the world. They challenge me to embrace life in expectation that God has more in store. They also give me the opportunity to be an Elizabeth in their lives. Remember how Elizabeth, Mary's older cousin, was given to Mary to mentor and encourage her when the angel came along and told Mary she would carry the Christ child? Mary needed someone to believe in her when no-one else would. I believe in what God is doing in these young people!
Not much gives me more joy than loving, and encouraging, and being with young folks.
My heart Leaps for joy and I will give thanks to him in song. PS28:7
Lord, I thank you for the witness of your presence, power and purposes in the lives of your servants young and old. Expand our vision of what you are and will do in and through each one of us. So be it!
Charlie was part of the 20 something gang that descended on Holland this week for Amanda and Nate's wedding. This wedding also brought our son Caleb and wife Sonja to town. We got to play host to several of their friends. This meant our house was filled with fun and laughter, comings and goings.
There was a campfire in the back yard Thursday night as people gathered for the weekend. Good food and drink, and life stories to share. Ten people crowded the breakfast table on Saturday morning and we heard more about the life of these 20 somethings:
Kelly has just returned from a year with YWAM in Bolivia and Brazil...what's next?
Stan finishes up law school in December and wonders, what's next.
Lindsay reported on life in Atlanta, working for DOW Chemicals.
Skates just got back from touring with a jazz band in Italy and France, and talked about the music he is making and writing.
James is hunting for the next job after interning and working with SoJourners in DC.
Kelsey is finishing up at Hope this year.
Charlie shared his engagement story, and about life on the farm in Virginia with Katie...and then?
Sonja helped us understand her work with Arabella and philanthropists and non-profit organizations.
And Caleb talked about The Table, the new church plant he works with in DC, and Williams wedding in Uganda.
This is an amazing group! They are each so unique and gifted in such different ways, but they are united in heart and by the Spirit. They are a Christ Community spread around the United States and at times the world.
These young people inspire me to greater things! They witness to the wonderfully diverse ways God engages His people in the world. They challenge me to embrace life in expectation that God has more in store. They also give me the opportunity to be an Elizabeth in their lives. Remember how Elizabeth, Mary's older cousin, was given to Mary to mentor and encourage her when the angel came along and told Mary she would carry the Christ child? Mary needed someone to believe in her when no-one else would. I believe in what God is doing in these young people!
Not much gives me more joy than loving, and encouraging, and being with young folks.
My heart Leaps for joy and I will give thanks to him in song. PS28:7
Lord, I thank you for the witness of your presence, power and purposes in the lives of your servants young and old. Expand our vision of what you are and will do in and through each one of us. So be it!
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