There's something incredibly inspirational about strangers gathering with the intent of wanting to love people better. It's why I enjoy NCBI events so much, and today was very reminiscent of that for me. I connected instantly with some folk. Of course there were several in the room whom I already love massively, but it was ace to be reminded that you don't need a history to love people - we can be open hearted from the get-go. I enjoyed myself lots, can you tell? It was fabulous from the beginning (well, the beginning is always hard to pinpoint. It began months ago with the dreams of the awesome instigator, then there was arriving today and helping get set up, that relationship stuff is all part of it too). The official beginning was with worship that started with the words that there was nothing we had to do, we could just soak up the presence - so I was crying straight away - being allowed to not wrestle with the wrestling. How liberating :)
I've not got my notes out yet to share with you, or processed much. (Dashed away early as I had a service to help lead, via the chaos that I expected but in unexpected ways - a near trip to A and E, and of course I forgot how chaotic the house gets when baking etc happens without my clarion call to tidy afterwards...) Right now my main highlight is how we can indeed be angels to one another just by being delighted in each other's presence. For those times I've not been delighted enough to have you in my life I'm sorry that stuff got in the way of that. Today has been just what I needed to remind me once again that all we need to do is love :D :D :D
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