I love Him!

Tonight we had dinner with some of our long time mentors. This couple is the parents of one of my best friends. They took me in a year after I was saved and months after I was off drugs.
They were deeply committed to me. They loved me, shared Christ with me and counselled me thru some of the most tumultuous times of my walk. When I met Jerome they gave us pre-marriage counselling. Once we got married they gave us weekly counselling for 8 months...and we needed it! I was a MESS but I loved Jesus and I loved people so Jerome kept me :) Jerome was hanging on for dear life wondering what in the heck he got himself into.

The purpose of the dinner was to thank them again all these years later. They saw something in me...in us. They saw past the emotional wreck that I was. They saw His plan for me.

They modeled something for us that we went on to copy. We have had several people live with us. We typically are reaching out to the overlooked and cheering for the underdog.

Over dinner we were sharing with them some of the stories of changed lives we have seen thru OASIS. We were all laughing and rejoicing together. In a strange way even though they had never met the people we spoke of....it was like we were all connected thru the Spirit.

Jerome starting sharing how much it meant to him that John encouraged him thru that time. How it helped him hold on thru the storm. He was saying such wonderful things about who I am today and commending them for their part. He was recognizing their sacrifice and commitment. He started to tear up. (Pause, worship and me having babies are about the only two things that make him cry). So of course I teared up too waiting for him to cry. He didn't cry though.

When we got home we were rehearsing the night...how wonderful it was to be with John and Janny again...to all rejoice and laugh and reminisce....together. Jerome asked me if I noticed him start to cry at dinner. He said the reason he didn't was because it wasn't efficient. He said he would have lost his train of thought and then no one would've understood him because he was crying. He CRACKS me up!

OK...so he JUST NOW...while he is playing HALO...a game where you shoot people with guns....said "OH MY GOSH, moo-moos are on the floor." Moo-moos are our 5 year old's sleeping animals that he has had since birth. They stay here on Thursdays when Silas spends the night at Aunt Nina's so they don't get misplaced. We have a new puppy...so the OH MY GOSH was that they needed to be put up so Yoda didn't get them. Then he says he would rather one of our cars get stolen than to have moo-moos get ruined.

I love that he is a strong warrior and yet cares about moo-moos and cries at dinner...well almost cries...he would have if it would have been more efficient :)

OK...all this has no flow and makes no sense but that is the joy of blogging! Happy Reading!!!!