…cuz you never know when you might be mistaken for prey.

Soooo, I love our worship team at Church of the Canyons.  They really are family to me.
We are a diverse group of personalities, skills, interests, desires, callings, joys, sorrows…
Since the end of August, we’ve had a series of life-altering events happening to many members of our team, which in turn feels like it’s happening to each of us (as with family):
-our leader had a stroke aug 24th (?), all semester the worship team drew together to stay afloat and still lead the congregation in worship,
-our drummer announced that his wife is pregnant (she had breast cancer and defeated it, so it was an extra joyous occasion),
-our leader is almost fully recovered and in december was hired on as Worship Pastor (a lifelong dream realized),
-one of our singers was diagnosed with breast cancer on dec 15th and was in chemo 13 days later ( is still in the process),
-one of our percussionists dad died unexpectedly on december 19th,
-one of our tech guys got married on 1/1/09, 2 of our other members traveled across the globe to attend the wedding…

It’s been a wild ride this semester.
And, I’m so thankful for all of it.
God has shown Himself all the more faithful, kind, loving, longsuffering,
While i could go on, the point of this post is to share some of the moments that bring me great joy… as i laugh/cry/pray/work/fight/confess/lead/follow/worship with this group of people…

here’s one that happened at rehearsal tonight (Tuesday)…
-Greg loves hunter safety orange…on purpose.
-He continues to seek out and purchase items in this color…even when his house burned down last year (and in it all the orange contents), he replaced the orange items
-he showed up tonight with a new sweatshirt
-may I share, in total honesty, that the reflection of the orange was on his face; it was too bright to look at him and it hurt our eyes; we did not want to even look in his direction
-we begged him to take it off
-Greg has a keen wit and a very dry sense of humor (that I dearly love) and he refused (with a cheshire cat smirk)

Your eyes will burn if you look directly at it.

Come on…this group is awesome!