Tonight is a rare blog post where I just wanted to share something briefly, and not go into length about it. One of my greatest joys (along with cuddling with my love and writing music) is bringing people I know together to do something that we all value and enjoy. Another such joy is bringing together people I know that have never met each other, and especially people that, based on what I know about them already, I think will hit it off, and then seeing it actually happen in real time.
Last night's Bible study was all of that: we had our highest turnout yet (a total of 6 people were present), we studied God's word and prayed, and then we fellowshipped, both before and after. When we were all together, the group consisted of 2 friends I've known for a decade or more, plus 3 more from my current church that I've gotten to know in the last year or even just over the last few months. Although one of my newer friends had to leave earlier than the rest, for a solid 20 minutes or so I delighted in seeing (and occasionally participating in) two sets of conversations in which neither man had met the other previously, and in each case it was one of my longer-time friends chatting and connecting with one of my newer friends.
Joy. Pure joy. God is good in more ways than I'm typically aware, so it was nice to have that moment last night to just sit back and soak it all in, to soak in all that God is doing, even the little things and the little nuances of things.