Today's happy moment is a toss up between my conversation with B about her marvelous spring break trip with her campus fellowship, and dinner out with friends before we went to see the Sound of Music performed by our church (a benefit for Living Hope International, our Zambia orphanage).
B's spring break trip was amazing, a huge step forward for her in being fully integrated in her fellowship, with the leadership in particular. She has been involved in this fellowship for most of her college career now, most of two years, and she has always had a lot of friends there. But I sensed something unhealthy too, ironically. She was keeping herself apart spiritually. (Well, to be fair, I don't know that she was keeping herself apart, or if that's just the way it worked out and no one reached out to disciple her.) She was busy discipling friends who were younger in the Lord than she is, but there was no one there for her to look up to for wisdom or advice. She was connecting plenty downward, but not upward.
So it was a joy to hear about all her new connections with leaders, open and honest conversations, and to hear her say how each leader she connected with told her, "We're here for you, B. We're just a phone call away. You can call us." She's not a lone wolf Christian anymore. That was a happy moment (Or a happy 1 1/2 hours on the phone, actually.)
The other happy moment came as we went out with friends for dinner tonight before the musical. I happened to mention that tomorrow was our 23rd wedding anniversary, which got us all comparing notes about our honeymoons. It was fun to relate to our friends our funny memories of the hokey resort in the Poconos we went to. Somehow it fully got us over the tension of yesterday. Going out with friends always does that for T and me. Getting out with people and being forced to behave ourselves always restores harmony between us. We do well there, outwardly. And somehow that works to bring back into harmony any inward dissonance.
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