Be the Church

I’m staring out a window pane of a house-turned-starbucks reflecting on this day and this place and right now and how God is interwoven among it all.

And cars are turning right. And bushes are lining the streets, and bichon frise’s are wagging tails reigned in from over-sniffing their welcome by older ladies’ leashes. And it’s so Sunday Morning.

This coffee shop.

This atmosphere of sunny outside – early morning coffee and A/C and macbooks inside.

Roommates helping each other begin blogs to document this year of our lives. Learning and laughing and sipping flavored coffee drinks in a corner filled with 3 leather chairs just for us. 

Its just soo Sunday Morning!

We walked to church this morning. All through the city and Uptown Charlotte.

We must have seen 60 CMPD officers stationed there for the DNC. And we said hello to most of them.  

We’ve got a love the world is desperate for (especially this early in the morning).

Seeing our city in the morning is breathtaking. Walking the streets of this city that is yours Lord, it was so very powerful.

We felt it.

We were expectant. We are hungry for your Word.

And Larry and Joel delivered.  

The message challenged us to be the church and not to just go to church.

Isn’t that what we are?

Isn’t that what UrbanLife is all about?

Being the church in this neighborhood and establishing relationships to be able to go out and love these people on the West side? So applicable right now. 

 Thank you Jesus for this opportunity. Thank you for bringing me here. Thank you for choosing me with your amazing grace that I won't ever earn or deserve. Thank you for blessing me day after day.