Can You See the Heart?

I just got off the phone with an incredible group of people. 

P Ant, Tara, Santz, Sylvie, BJ, Jesse, Marsha, Al & Diane. (Manny was there in spirit)   :)

Tonight on our conference call, Ant used a phrase I haven't heard in far too long. "Can you see the heart?" He was right. We had lost the heart in what we were doing. We had the basics; the pilot light was on, but the gas valve was closed.

But recently, things have been happening - a different kind of church and a different kind of worship has begun. For the past 2 Sundays, we've had no idea what was going to happen during service. The difference was that instead of having NO agenda, we yielded to God's agenda.

You know, sometimes you need a fan that's much bigger than the flame to get the fire going again.

Thank You Lord that You have begun a new thing in CWC, but more than that, You've begun a new thing in each of our hearts. Thank You for fanning that flame, that small yet constant flicker of light that needed a mighty wind to create a thunderous roar. Let Your roar echo through this valley.

It's December...

... and I haven't blogged in pretty much forever!

A lot has happened, and I'm learning a lot...

Hopefully I'll be visiting this spot more often.

I Learned Something Today & Had Fun While Learning It...

Today, church was just fun. It was just fun! I don't know what the difference was. I think I'm just learning to go with the flow without stressing. Like, Tee needed a ride today & usually it hecka bugs me when people wait for the last minute to ask for a ride. Now I'll be late, but I just said, yeah, sure, its cool. And I wasn't stressed :)

On the way to pick up Tee, I asked if Squeeks wanted a ride to his church too. He said yeah, so we got all loaded up. I dropped him off at the corner. We're even more late, and... I wasn't stressed :)

Driving down the freeway with Tee - still late - we're talking, chillin, laughing. And guess what I wasn't? Stressed :)

Finally at church. Sound check is kind of going on, where's Ant - he's teaching class? gotta help Tara, BJ is no where to be found, and it's all good. We didn't get in a good practice yesterday for the band, but, hey, I just went with it, and I had so much fun! I mean, Manny is a musical genius. The transition from Still into From the Inside Out was so good, I had fun doing it. I was smiling alot during worship today & just went with the flow, even though I mostly didn't know what I was doing... and I wasn't stressed :)

Well, the moral of the story - what I learned today - is really quite a basic thing to know mentally, but for me, much more difficult to apply practically: Why stress over things that, as of right now, cannot be changed? Someone's gotta pick up Tee - that's not gonna change, so why stress? BJ's not here yet - can't do anything to change that, so why stress? Worship team didn't get to practice - well, we ain't gettin one right now, so why stress? Life is much more fun sans stressing, and today was a lesson well learned. I had a lot of fun.