Ahhsummm

I am smiling and chuckling to myself right now. After watching myself on video Sunday interviewing Grovers and listening to my response so often being, "Awesome, that's awesome", I want to choke myself. My speech teacher and other word police like me would slap me.

However, The Grove is an AWESOME place. The people are AWESOME. What they did with the food collection Sunday was AWESOME! What God is doing is AWESOME! I know I overuse the word lately so I'll try to vary my responses in the future.

But there is one person who can say it over and over and I'll never get tired of it. Angus Benjamin, my 2 year old grandson is venturing into the world of words more everyday. I watched his mother's video she posted with him saying AHHsumm and my wait for them to come and visit in 2 weeks seems an eternity! If you want to smile, take a look at the video at http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1179124273881

The team I serve with at The Grove is AWESOME too. What amazes me is that they still love me when I screw up. Sunday was no exception as I had asked Carolyn to put together a slide show of our history at The Grove and then forgot to ask her to run it. I was told she was waving at me to get my attention and I, as I sometimes do, stayed in my tunnel and didn't see it. What made it worse was that she had stayed up so late to finish it. She tried to make me feel better by saying she now had more time to make it better, but I saw it and it was great in its first form.

God's grace is AWESOME and when his people extend that grace as well it is AWESOME too. Especially when you are a pastor that needs it more and more.

So year 3 has started - we have AWESOME opportunities ahead like: Painesville Party in the Park this Sunday, an outdoor baptism service at Headlands beach August 2nd, our 40 Days of Love campaign starting September 13th, and the list could go on and on.

What is the most AWESOME is the life change happening in our people and the community.

Hope you are as excited as this old pastor!