A Place To Belong

This morning, I went to my first church women's group on my own. Bracing for it to be less than I expected, and yet believing God was nudging me to go, I went. I should have known how great it would turn out to be: My only Wednesday morning off in the whole bookkeeping program coincided with the break-from-the-weekly-Bible-study-routine coffee morning for the women at church. How perfect! The moment I entered, I was welcomed by so many women and really felt that THIS is what church was meant to be. REAL community. I caught a glimpse of something there that my heart has been longing for for so long. I guess it's that sense of belonging. But even more than that, I could see that these women were real, and that they were beyond just the surface things. Their love for God and desire to serve Him was so evident. And you know? It was really good to just laugh my heart out with other women. There is something extremely unifying about being in a group of people with whom you have something in common, something that is so deep into the core of you: womanhood. (And now, being a wife, too.) I am so thankful that God has brought us to this church where we felt embraced the very first time we stepped through the doors. I know that He has a lot in store for us here as we meet more people and get involved. For the first time in my life, I feel like I may have stumbled upon a place to belong among Believers.