In awe!

Tuesday morning edit:  
I wrote the following on Sunday but didn't really have the chance to post it.  Works out for me because I have something to add.  I love staff meeting days!  Most people would likely think that I'm crazy, but seriously, Cornerstone staff meeting are great.  We meet a couple times a month, and we start out each meeting with the question, "Where have we seen God working?"  It's always such a great part, but today was just what I needed.  Story after story after story of the cool and amazing things that God is doing in Cornerstone and around our city.   We know that we aren't the ones responsible, we can merely be the tools to make His work happen.  Boy, it is happening!  Then we get to pray in small groups for those requests that have been sent in as well as verbal ones that come up.  Then worship time together.  All that happens before we really get to "business".  Love being part of a staff that can laugh (and tease) and celebrate together as a group as well as lean on each other in the crazy times.  (And it's always crazy.)

Ok, and now for the post from Sunday. 

Today before the 10:35 service here at Cornerstone, I was struck again watching a crowd of a couple hundred people waiting in line for church, and watching people stream in from way out in the parking lot, and watching people waiting in line to check in and drop off their kids to classes. I just am floored. It's kinda hard to come to church here. Not hard in comparison to most of the world where it is truly hard to attend church, but it's an inconvenience. We live in such a convenience driven, give-it-to-me-now, fast food country that the fact that people will go through these inconveniences to come and hear the Word of God, it just floors me. God has given us the extreme honor of sending more and more people to this place. People who are just trying to figure out who Jesus is to the baby Christians, to those who have been followers for years and are seeking to serve Him more.  They just keep coming. Thank you God for this opportunity to be just the tiniest part of it. There is no human reason why they keep coming, I know it's only a miracle of You. Please keep our hearts and minds, my heart and mind continuously open to what You are doing in our church, our city, our country and our world. And I pray that I never loose the awe or get distracted by the busyness and the difficulty of working in ministry to notice the amazing work that You are doing.