Let me paint the picture for you. There are 20 plus people all crowded in my friends' living room, waiting to encourage, who I am now starting to see, a really amazing man. People start to share what they see for this guy, the encouraging stuff he's brought to their lives. And it's good. Really good. And there is a point in the evening, when someone shares very specifically what this honored guest has done in his life. And here the tone is set. Here is where a deeper look into his heart and who he is and has become begins to fill the air. Here is where my heart starts to explode.
In the course of the next four, tear filled, proclamations of love and honor, I start to feel God strongly. I start to feel Him, honestly, in a way I have never felt him before. So strange, because I have been going to an incredible, presence filled church for almost five years now. Not to say that I couldn't have felt this same presence there, but I haven't let myself. Here in this room tonight, people became real. People became vulnerable. Friends with seven plus years of history with this man, down to the friendship that was born just five months ago. All were represented and all came together to produce a sweet presence of unity.
I'm sure you've heard people say, "I will run with these people for the rest of my life". Tonight I saw that. Tonight I experienced what it looks like to let down walls and just be. I kept getting this picture of a heart being taken out of a person's chest and massaged back to health. I just thought it was a little crazy, because I really didn't think this image was meant for the man of the hour. But I kept picturing it. Now as I sit writing, I realize that that picture was for me. Being apart of tonight.... it feels like words only lessen the effect it had on my heart.
At the end of the night, I said "My heart feels overwhelmed. I feel like I'm sitting in a room full of giants and these are the people you surround yourself with." I think about all that were in that room tonight and my heart just feels like it's screaming, "I WANT MORE OF THIS!!" I want people in my life that are more concerned about how my heart is doing, than an agenda. And tonight, the people in that room embodied this. I can say with all my heart that I just spend that last few hours with some of the most quality people I have ever known.
All I can think of in my heart now is YES. A thousand times YES . YES I chose to be real. YES I chose to run. YES I chose to take risks. YES I chose to love.
I wasn't even the one being honored, but I can't tell you how much it meant to me and what it did for my heart to experience and hear all of these incredible people sharing their hearts towards an incredible person. My heart is truly overwhelmed.
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