What's Next

Have you ever bought a new outfit and really liked it, but it sits in the closet. You go in and look at it, but every occasion that comes up just doesn’t seem like the right one. You put the outfit on, then take it off. You reassure yourself you like the outfit and will wear it. Maybe it was just a little daring or different, but you know it can work. Why can’t you just wear the stupid thing!? Sometimes my direction with God and what God is doing is like this. It’s new, I am really excited, I know it’s going to work one way or another, but I can’t seem to step into it.

SO… What’s next?

Well, I think I need an occasion to wear my outfit. I know the analogy is probably lame, but it works for me (especially, since I have a few unworn outfits in my closet). L and I were talking today and I suggested that we, as a family, should get together to start praying about what God is doing and how we fit into the picture. In the next week or so we are going to have dinner and pray. We agreed that it’s not coming together to see how we can start a new program or “win-over” the “un-saved” people in our lives, but rather to pray about where we are headed as a family, how we can reach out to others (simply to love them), how we can make an impact in our neighborhood and community and to pray for others who share the same ideas.

It should be very interesting as we are all coming from different places with the organized church and some of us are further from it that others, but I think we can still work together. After all, we are family – what a better place to start.

My thoughts for the coming months is that we should just have dinner (not exclusive to certain people) and just invite who ever we want to just have dinner together. Then maybe we, as a smaller group, get together to pray for people in practical ways and for each other.

We’ll see.

Nothing on this road has been predictable. I have to say though, I am the most comfortably uncomfortable I have ever been. Go figure.