We had my cousin and her family over for a BBQ yesterday and it was SO good to be with them.  It had been a long time since we've gotten together.  It was so nice to talk to her and she really understood where I was coming from in certain areas.  We recently left our church due to lots and lots of reasons and it's been hard for me.  The church has basically shattered and while it's continuing on and picking up the pieces, much of the original members have left.  Yet the church is continuing to grow and change which is good.  There was talk about home church, but I t hink the fear of having "one leader" has truly stopped anything formal from starting.  There are periodic impromtu worship services or sharing services which are wonderful, but to be honest I missed corporate worship.  So we started attending a new church in the area who meets on Sunday evening.  I've been loving it and feel such a peace- I never realized how great the tension had grown in the other church until I visited.  But Matt's not 100% mainly because the pastor of the "new" church was the overseer of the "old" church and Matt thinks the pastor sees us as abondoners or church jumpers (which I don't feel)  Part of me is afraid to get attached, but this church is filled with WONDERFUL people I'd love to get to know so much better.

My cousin's family recently changed churches as well (totally different churches) but it was nice to talk to someone who knew exactly how it felt, but wasn't intimately aquainted with exactly what had gone on in our church.  So it was a very nice afternoon.