Beautiful Night
I’m sitting in my back yard right now. I don’t do this often, but right now I’m really taking in the beauty. It’s 11:00 pm. The fire in the pit is slowly burning down. I’m on fire patrol, so everyone else has gone inside. The sky is filled with stars. The woods are filled with fireflies. It is really beautiful.
We had a yard full of people tonight. Friends and family from Bristol Road Church of Christ. We had originally planned a cookout for the young adults, but none of them remembered about it since I was gone the last few weeks and didn’t remind them. So, we punted and invited a others to join us. They’ve all left now, but the auras of their laughter and love remain.
I’ve been rather disenchanted with the concept of “church” for the last few years, but this evening came pretty close to what I think it should be. Fellow Christians spending time together, rejoicing about successes (one of our unemployed guys was accepted into a school he was hoping for), sharing hard times, casual discussions about God, forgiveness, discipleship, and desperately wanting to be more like Jesus.
If communion can be done with burgers and dogs instead of sips of juice and bits of cracker, we had a great church service tonight.
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Brad Palmore