Afterglow

I am still buzzed.  What a wonderful service we had yesterday, and then the lid blew off the top of my expectations as 90 of us gathered at Lake Tholocco where we baptized 23 people! What a privilege.  

Thanks for all your help in making yesterday special not only for those who were baptized, but for the whole Crossroads family. Truly, we crossed over into new territory yesterday afternoon (that seems to happen often, doesn't it?).  Each time that, as a church family, we get to break new ground or have some new shared experience together I see the invisible glue that God uses to stick us to each other.  I suppose the proper scripturally terminology would be, "he has knit our hearts together by the Holy Ghost", but it's the same result.  We take another step, have another experience, live another day as family.

One of my favorite moments yesterday?  Many of us we're sitting in the pavilion after the baptizing, after the pigging out on burgers, dogs and great desserts, and the musicians had guitars and drum boxes out.  They we're playing and everyone was gathered around singing:

You are all over

You are all around me

You are inside me

This is life, This is life

And the sun was low in the sky, bathing the pavilion in warm light, and the voices of the people singing, the unity present in that moment, and the significance of what we had just experienced a short time before in the water, and the faces of those who were baptized as they emerged, and the cheers of the people on the shore, and I thought, "Yeah...this is life".

So glad to be alive and doing life together.