Guitars and answered prayers

Back a few months ago I went on a crazy one day trip with some of my Polish friends from Genesis. I don't remember if I blogged about it or not. I thought they were taking me out to the country to kill me or something....no water (which translates - no toilets), "evidence" of major mouse activity in the place where we stayed, deep mud that tried repeatedly to devour my van. It was like something out of National Lampoon's Vacation series.

We did get to spend some great time together talking, praying, singing, laughing. At one point we were talking about our spiritual desires and I mentioned how I crave intimate community with a small group of guys. One of them, Waldek, mentioned how maybe God was bringing that into my life through them. Eventually we wrapped things up and headed back home...and time went on.

A few weeks ago I was talking to Waldek again and we came up with the idea of meeting every week to play guitars together and basically work on worship music so that if anyone ever called on Saturday night needing a fill-in for Sunday we'd be ready (that actually happened to him the same week we started meeting). We figured it would be a good chance to worship together and generally spend a little time together.

Tonight is actually going to be our 2nd meeting and already we're growing! There'll be a new guy coming...one who supposedly studies guitar so I'm a little intimidated. But it's awesome that God is answering that desire I have through something informal and stress-free like this. That's what we mean when we say that "God is faithful". Our Heavenly Father loves us so deeply and only wants the best for us. And even though life gets tough and is full of bumps, scrapes, and bruises...there are also the sweet times when God lovingly says to us, "yeah, I was listening...here you go...."