i have been blessed with a remarkable group of friends here in Nashville. commiserate with our friend group back home (the JP), our nashville entourage has garnered the amicable name, The Famlee, for a good time now. i am thankful that many of these beautiful souls are ones i've known for years, decades even, and could not put into words how grateful i am to continue to walk out this season of my life with seasoned vets always at my sidelines cheering me on, or pushing me from behind when i dig my heels in the asphalt and want to quit.
this group of friends is an eclectic bunch. ripe with talent and passion, spanning many genres and venues from the music industry to interior design to graphic design and iphone apps, to stylists for the stars and sausage promotion, i feel like i am among an elite crew boiling over with creative ability and potential.
and the personalities: wow! what an array! it's like the smorgasboard of salad bars! not some chincy, dining hall salad bar with stale croutons and thousand island dressing. but rather, the jason's deli of salad bars! something for everyone, AND free fro-yo!
tonight was a reminder of the heart and passion and abilities everyone brings to the table in the Famlee. i'm a finalist for a promotion with Southwest Airlines, and have to come up with a 2 minute video on why I should win. without even finishing divulging the details of the contest, everyone was on board and ready to be of use with wherever their gifts fit best: we've got filmmakers, and jingle-writers, and people with massive ideas and personalities and energy! and everyone was so ready and willing to be generous with their time and talents, all for a silly video that could easily wind up lost in the stacks out at Southwest's HQ.
what amazes me about this vibrant group of mid-20-somethings, is when the laughter and excitement and dancing and heinous amounts of singing and clapping die down, or when you're in a bind, or need a ride from the airport last minute, or when you even just need someone to pray with you-- i know that each and every person in the Famlee would drop what they are doing and be there for you. you see, much unlike America wants you to believe about our generation, we're invested. in each other, in our faith, in the church, in this world.
i wrote a post a few weeks back about how the Lord was moving within this group of friends, and i am so anxiously awaiting a week from today, when many of us will embark on a week-long discipleship training together. after talking with alvin, one of the guys through whom this DMS is coming into fruition, we both agreed that our group of friends is such a rich ground of community, but we've been missing the essential pieces of spiritual depth on a greater level. certainly, i've been blessed to go to school and to have been through so much of life with 4 of these girls, but a part from that, don't have a huge investment in the spiritual lives of the rest of the community.
i'm expectant that the Lord is going to show up and move in amazing, unbelievable ways. there has already been such revelation and revival in the hearts and lives of several of us over the past year, and i think this will only further cement not only our relationships among the Famlee, but as well as our impact in our community and in the lives of others that we have the opportunity to serve. most importantly, i am expectant that the Lord will use this time to draw our eyes and hearts and ears and lives so near and dear to His own, and that He will reclaim places in our souls that have grown stagnant, that He will uproot the weeds that laziness has allowed to take hold, and that He will blow gently into the flame beneath our hearts to set it ablaze for His kingdom and His glory.
thank you Jesus for your blessing of friends. not just any friends-- famlee.
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