6>80's Music

The snow as started falling as the faint sounds of 80's music plays in the background. Not the good stuff, but the songs that everybody knows the words to, but wishes they didn't like Prince's "Purple Rain" though there was some Sting and Queen that was pretty redeeming. If there was ever a place to take a girl this was the place. Ive only ever been ice skating once and it ended with stiches, so I chose to walk around with Boston, but with the snow falling, ice-skating in the park seemed picturesque. And I was thinking of our past few days together. I pray that we come back ready to rock the Lake. If nothing else, our group has fused like brothers and sisters (though we are outnumbered 3 to 1, yikes.) Like any family theres been our struggles and issues, but the group has gelled to a thick solidarity. Theres justin who is always just this side of the line, quiet Angi who we left at a mall, Erin the trooper who survived a trip to the city hospital, Boston the joymaker who seems to have the ability to but a smile on everybodies face and myself who got the group lost while walking to moody (not entirly lost but… we were on the right street just about 12 blocks down…) Im excited to see what the rest of this week will hold. The thoughts and ideas that are swimming around in everybody's head, how they will be poured out to become concrete reality. No seminar has said here is what you do to improve your church, your ministry, your small groups. Its been fairly simple, but profound. – CHANGE YOURSELF FIRST – Focus on God in your own life. Focus on who he is. And that change will radiate outward, like ripples in a still pond. Change begins here (index finger pointing at your own/my own stearnum. A. T. Elwer