CPT 2010; I wish you were here ...

I wish you were here.

I wish you were here to experience the unity and the amazing sights and sounds of a family working in unity; different parts of the body of Christ.

Today was an excellent day full of things to be grateful for; delayed luggage arriving, the amazing friendliness and warmth of complete strangers at the Global day of prayer event offering the privilege of peering into their lives through all the stories candidly shared and affording you the opportunity to do the same… Getting to know people in a genuine way with none of the usual masks up simply because everyone was united in the focus for the event.

Seeing real life live before your eyes and having lives transformed is an amazing experience that everyone should and can have access to and for some reason it seems easier to be that vulnerable when away from life's usual stressors or familiar context.

I was reminded today that all required of us is as simple as living life in genuine community and preferring one another over ourselves. It is in this that we discover our passions, have proper expectations set, have our gifts develop and grow into the people we are called to be.

It is possible to live this life anywhere and I am sure you all experience similar junctures occasionally, and while I do wish you were here with me today, I pray that God will provide you your own special experience of unity in His body as one way to show you His love.