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Dennis is in one of the back rooms paying the keyboard and/or the guitar and the singing.  On the way to church this morning we were listening to John Ragsdale sing “You are Holy” (based on Isaiah 6 – you can check it out here http://www.johnragsdalestore.com/fr_index.cfm it is on the CD “The Sound” and it is song 5 or 6).  Dennis tried singing the lyrics in Spanish…they didn’t fit.  Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t.  So I challenged him to re-write the song in Spanish…to be clear, to re-write the lyrics and the music.  He was working on that. 

So I decided to do a little writing. 

We’ve been hearing a lot lately about “Getting Connected”.  Getting connected to the Holy Spirit, connecting to community, connecting to …you name it.  Apparently we are designed to connect. 

It all sounds good.  Sometimes,  what we think we should connect to isn’t what God is working to connect.  Today I wanted to go to a birthing class our church was having.  I had been personally invited.  I wanted to go because I want to connect with the women at my church and many of then are mothers and they are passionate about child birth and all things related.  It is good.  It didn’t work out.  We went had planned to attend an appreciation service for Bishop and Sister Thompson, one of the pastors who prayed for us at our wedding.   The service was longer than I realized.

It was a great service.  And we met so many wonderful people.  We met the couple who pastor Christ Church in San Marcos.  They are a lovely couple with young children.  We enjoyed meeting them.  It was funny, I saw them during the service and I thought maybe I knew them from somewhere.  You know when you get that feeling?  

Lately, I have found that I have become friends with several women who are very strong Christians but who do not attend “my church”.  I’ve also become friends with some women at my own church who some might say are “unlikely” friends.  Once again, it is not always the people we think we should be friends with but the ones that God connects us to.

It reminds me of a message that John Ragsdale preached about getting the right relationships, the right reasons and the right resources.  (I know back to John Ragsdale – hey, this guy doesn’t just sing, he and his wife are also great preachers! You should look him up.)  In our lives, we need to pray that we would have the right relationships in our lives, the right reasons (motives) and the right resources…when these things line up, it’s all good.

So here is to connecting the right people.