Thanks God

We always thank God for all of you and continually mention you in our prayers. We remember before our God and Father your work produced by faith, your labor prompted by love, and your endurance inspired by hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.
-1 Thessalonians 1:2-3

Tonight I am very grateful to God for delicious meals, frozen wine, shared stories, encouragement from Scripture, Nestle Crunch Bars, rambling prayers, and damn good friends. We may not love living in Bloomington-Normal all the time, but the gifts God has given us in the community we have here is beyond what I could have ever hoped or prayed for.

Tonight, we had our first "fo-reals" small group together. This group of friends that has been forming over $3 beers, games of Scrabble, Contract Rummi, and Dutch Nuts, obsessive viewings of Friday Night Lights and Big Love... we've decided to get together twice a month to eat, to read Scripture (but NOT do intensive, uber-Bible study), to share and to pray. And I am so very glad.

Thanks God. This is a good gift.

Dave's 30th Birthday Celebration
As "hipster" as we could get in Central Illinois