Life Groups

Last night I went to my second (although overall its the third) Life Group meeting at Rock Harbor. I was bummed to miss last week but starting on Friday of last week, I was thinking about it and honestly, was not feeling the urge to go. I was just so complacent- I much rather would have stayed home and watched House or something. But I knew that it was something that I had really wanted to do soI pushed myself into going. And i'm so glad that I did. Both Amys were there as well as people that I remembered from the first week. A lot of people from our original table were gone but we immediately got into a good conversation. It was awesome to see Amy Risley again and it was really nice to see John and Breann and Mike and Hubur again. We talked first about how Adam and Eve's relationship to each other and God changed after they ate of the forbidden fruit. That was a really great conversation that we immediately fell into. We then watched a Nooma video by Rob Bell about "lumps". The deal was that we always want to hide when we've been caught but really, there is nothing that we can do that will make God love us less. That's when the staff threw a curveball at us. They ended up combining our table with another table and thus began the awkwardness. We didn't know how this big group of 17 was going to fit together but after a brief introduction, we fell into it. I kind of helped facilitate by asking the questions and although at first only the same people were talking, by the end, everyone had said at least one thing. Next week is our final meeting on "campus" so to speak and the week after we're going to start meeting either at Amy or Trenton Lefman's house (funny how I've been involved with things with all of the Lefmann boys at some point....) or at the Spectrum, which I think would be cool because we'd be bringing ourselves outside to the people. Hopefully be a light that way.

Both Amy's, Trenton and I hung out for a little bit afterwards (Trenton and I were both thinking about possibly being leaders.... although I still need to pray a LOT about this because it sounds like a BIG time commitment at first and with now having to take the CTEL on my own, I don't know..... we'll see) and it was hilarious because we kind of were having a little Voyagers catch up session. The more interesting part of the night though was when we some how got onto politics. Now don't get me wrong, I won't attack you for your political beliefs but when I'm talking with people who are so opposite what I believe, it gets uncomfortable. Luckily, I didn't have to say much and I ended up steering the conversation away from politics but it was definitely awkward for a moment. Politics just don't mix well with others. They probably got "doesn't play well with others" on their report card.

Anyway, though, I'm stoked that I ended up going back and although I'm still not 100% jumping waiting to get back next Tuesday, I'm glad that I forced myself to and will do so again if I ever get complacent.