Boxers

I am re-reading Velvet Elvis and Rob Bell goes into a short story describing him and some close friends sitting in a restaurant enjoying each others company. They end up closing the place down...and it seems that he is with his dearest friends in the world. He goes on to say,"And I'm sitting in this restaurant looking around the table, soaking it in, totally overwhelmed with the holiness of it all. The sacredness of the moment. That sense that in spite of everything awful I have ever seen, we're going to make it." I read this during my late shift tonight and it sparked 2 instances recently I have felt this "feeling." Last Saturday my friend Troy spent the night and we got up Sunday morning to go to church together. I was at the kitchen table eating cereal when he and my roommate both came in still half asleep in their boxers. I love mornings and the one thing I am most grateful for apart from Christ is my friends He has given me. Guys like to give each other a hard time and crack jokes at all times it seems. Even more so when women aren't around and it was already happening upon us all waking up. I was so content and grateful at that moment. I was in awe of the gift of friendships and how God restores what I have broken. I saw God at work through two dudes in boxers in my kitchen on Sunday morning. There was a time when I was just about friendless and now I don't care to count how many friends God has given me. Praise God for friends and simple moments of joy. I pray to God that I never get too busy or too preoccupied with this world to enjoy life. Another moment was at house church last night. It was my turn to share my junk and during my time of sharing I could tell that the enemy was at work in my thought life. Sometimes it just takes me speaking out loud what is going on inside and I then realize that the thoughts I am believing are lies. I had 4 brothers encouraging me, asking thought provoking questions, and praying for me. I didn't feel alone. I looked at the 4 men sitting around me and I knew that they were there for me..standing shoulder to shoulder with me...loving me...not judging me...helping me to know that I am not crazy! Holla