there's been a lot of action going on in our little acacia community. i always feel so blessed when i think about this family i have here and the way each person has shaped me for the better. last week anna left for socal and she shared this passage with us:
“In friendship...we think we have chosen our peers. In reality a few years' difference in the dates of our births, a few more miles between certain houses, the choice of one university instead of another...the accident of a topic being raised or not raised at a first meeting--any of these chances might have kept us apart. But, for a Christian, there are, strictly speaking no chances. A secret master of ceremonies has been at work. Christ, who said to the disciples, "Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you," can truly say to every group of Christian friends, "Ye have not chosen one another but I have chosen you for one another." The friendship is not a reward for our discriminating and good taste in finding one another out. It is the instrument by which God reveals to each of us the beauties of others.” ~C.S. Lewis
i really like that. actually this post is just an excuse to save that quote so it doesn't get lost in the abyss of gmail inbox. i love that in mutual effort to glorify god we come together to celebrate stuff like babies and people getting married or people moving on. or just to eat dinner together, play music together, pray together. that's really cool stuff =]
august is gonna be pretty fun. jess and joe are sealing the deal and monica and henry are expecting small child. whhhhhoooo's nexxxxxttt?? :D :D :D
:) Yes God is sooo good. So Thankful for you too!!
ReplyDelete-Jess