it's not so impossible

After a time of being very discouraged, this was an incredible week.
Kicked it all off with a girls movie and appie night. To be honest, I didn't want to go. Feeling anxious and more like a burden than able to have fun - but I decided to go. So glad I did. So glad to have had that time with those women, that lightness of heart mixed with genuine care for one another.

Follow that with a great chat with a friend of mine, and being encouraged to live as free, because the Son has already given me freedom.

Honored to sit in on a Kaleo chapel. Learning (with painfully slow speed) about transparency within myself, and how to respond to it in others.
STOKED to've had a visitor, one I'd missed so dearly, and will miss again now. Sufjan was a party. So talented, and some of it very unexpected.

I'm realizing now that I haven't been spending time with others much at all. And I am realizing now how much I missed being with people. And inspite of my real or felt rejections, how much I love them.

Some days I am thrilled to be living in Crofton, and some days I feel the complete opposite, but today I am thrilled.

The teaching Rob shared with the church was near unbelievable. I cannot number the amount of words that rose from today's service which were, with incredible likeness, what I have sprawled across last weeks journal entries. Perhaps the most significant thing about these repeated words was knowing that I am not forgotten.

I love working with kidztown. I cannot get enough!
And the more we meet with these kids, and the leaders afterward, the more I realize that we are doing more than just playing with kids on a Sunday afternoon. We are working together to give them a safe place - a place where their stories are valued and their voices heard, where they are wanted and cherished, and away the darkness of this world.
And in some crazy, incredible way it is what I am experiencing in that place aswell.

This was a day brimming with laughter and delicious food and heart-to-hearts and hope of freedom.