Tonight was awesome! We started the outdoor grilling season by having a group of our dear friends over. Good steaks, good wine, wonderful salad and delicious appetizers. What could be better? Seriously, how great is it when you can have a group of people who individually, and as a group, bring such joy and encouragement to your life?We feel so blessed to have a group of people with whom we can be totally real, totally ourselves and we just love each other. All of us have gone through some very tough seasons individually, and some of those tough seasons affected all of us. And through it all, we became even closer. There's grace here to simply be whatever we are in the moment and know that we'll be loved through it. Accountability? Yeah we got that - through grace and mercy and love for one another. No judgment, no condescension...grace, mercy and love. It's too rare in our too-busy western culture. In fact we were talking last night about it. None of us have ever experienced this kind of group closeness in our entire lives.
Thanks to a kind and loving God who teaches us how to be true friends. Now if only there weren't so many dishes to wash! :)
3 comments:
Isn't it nice to spend a evening with people you love and feel comfortable with. So happy you had such a wonderful evening.
good food, good people and good wine... it doesn't get much better than this.
Thanks for being one of the good people in my life!
Z
I think living in New Hampshire with snow practically year round has made me appreciate the barbeque season all that much more!!! I love that the sun is out and we can all sit around and enjoy talking while dinner is grilling! Plus... life seems to slow down for just a bit when you are cooking outside.
Jenn Troutman
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