Last night was our second meeting centered on getting quiet before God. Last time we focused somewhat on the question "What have you created us for?" This time we continued that conversation, in silence before God, with another question of what we really intend regarding our discipleship to Jesus. I feel like the last year and a half has been a big interruption in the gentle song my life had become. I am so grateful (now) to continually have my existing patterns and intentions called into question and at the same time not have my traditional spiritual/religious crutches to lean upon. I've pretty much got God--in his word, through his people, through the Spirit, and creation--and very little else that is familiar to me--and it's okay! It's better than okay. I'm becoming a foreigner here. Hopefully, I'm also becoming more at home with God. I believe we all are. Thank you, Father, for coming down here.