"heaven meets earth like a sloppy wet kiss"

I was teaching in Flipt yesterday for the first time in... what feels like forever. We were talking about encouraging other people and a bit about fellowship in the early church. During both services I got a bit caught up in the drama of the day (the kiddos have spring fever in a bad way) and didn’t really stop and think about some of the things I learned through talking.


You see, for some reason, I feel like God talks to me when my lips are moving sometimes. It’s odd. I’ll be having a conversation with someone and words, thoughts, insights will leave my mouth never having entered my brain before. It’s an odd phenomena, but I love it.

So, yesterday the kiddos had an opportunity to share what they liked best about fellowshipping (or as I said “hanging out”) with their friends in Flipt. The answers varied, but a number said “playing/talking/seeing my friends. One time I responded “I know, isn’t it so cool that God wants to hang out with our friends?

Today, I was thinking about that. How it really is “cool” how God wants us to value our relationship with people. That while loving Him were loving Them; listening to their stories, sharing their joys, listening to their sorrows.

I’ve been thinking a lot about love; what it means to “love your neighbor as yourself,” the “right” way to love someone, the cost of love, the difference between love and “wish the best for,” the list goes on…

But today, just for a moment, I thought about how “cool” love is. How great it is to have someone to play with, someone to laugh with, someone to just do life with.

And how awesome it is that God just wants me to “hang out” with people. I think I can do that.


(title is a quote from John Mark McMillan's song "How He Loves")