Gettin’ the boot!

After Ryan and I got married we decided (after much prayer) that it would be best to move out of our Singles Care Group into a Married Care Group. We figured that in this season of life  this move would probably be the wisest decision and the best way for us to grow in Godliness as a married couple.

For the good of our Care Group and our friends, we decided to make it easy on them and stay with them throughout the summer and just not come back after the 3:16 class break. I know that they are really going to miss us and we didn’t want our absence to draw anyone to tears or anxiety so we figured that a subtle leave would be best for them, instead of just quiting in the middle of the “season”.

Well, last night was very sad for me. The Singles group is making some changes… due to the size of our Care Group, they had to split up into 3 smaller groups from now until forever. When Eric was reading off the new groups and their members… Ryan and I were not included (tear). There are still a couple more meetings until the break and we have no where to go, i believe this was Eric’s subtle way of saying “ok, get out!”….

Soo.. to cut off the story let me just tell everyone how I am feeling: I am really really sad!!! This group of people that I have grown to love has been such a means of Grace in my life and I know that Ryan can say the very same thing. I feel like I am losing my family! When we were fellowship-ing last night after our meeting, I was just looking around and started to really miss everyone. It also didn’t help when everyone else was expressing the same feelings towards me that I was feeling about leaving all of them.

I KNOW that God has a good plan for us, and though I am sad about it now, I KNOW that it will turn out waay better than I think it will. I will develop new friendships while keeping my other ones. I will learn new things that I will be able to share with my single friends while being (hopefully) a Godly example. I will grow closer to my husband and learn how to serve him and our future family (Lord willing) better. Most importantly, I will be growing in my love for the Lord as he continues to help me trust him and obey him .

I don’t have a good conclusion to this post because I am writing this on my Lunch Break and I have run out of time. But, I would like to leave this verse for my fellow believers that I am going to miss soo very much. I love all of you and pray that God will continue to bless all of you in the ways that you have blessed me.

 Philippians 1: 3-11

I thank my God every time I remember you. In all my prayers for all of you, I always pray with joy because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now, being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.

 It is right for me to feel this way about all of you, since I have you in my heart; for whether I am in chains or defending and confirming the gospel, all of you share in God’s grace with me. God can testify how I long for all of you with the affection of Christ Jesus.

 And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight, so that you may be able to discern what is best and may be pure and blameless until the day of Christ, filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ—to the glory and praise of God.