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Something that we read in d-group the other night. I hadn't read it in what seemed like such a long time. Something to re-visit and learn all over again...Oh, and it's John 6:66-69...

From this time many of his disciples turned back and no longer followed him. "You do not want to leave too, do you?" Jesus asked the Twelve. Simon Peter answered him, "Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. We believe and know that you are the Holy One of God."

So, as promised by my latest entry...

I went to Florida over the weekend with Lauren. We had a most excellent road trip to Jacksonville, where we stayed with a family from CRU for a night. The next day we went to Orlando for the rehearsal dinner of our friend Andrew. We all spent a year together in Bosnia, 2005-2006. It's funny what can happen in a year or two. At the beginning of our year together, we went to the lookout in Sarajevo to pray over the city and over each other. Andrew was sharing that he was just accepted to seminary at RTS in Orlando. He said that pretty soon he would have to decide whether to re-STINT in Bosnia or go back to the States for seminary. He decided to go back to Florida and start seminary. Soon after, he met Meredith. By the third date, he knew that he wanted to marry her. And this past Saturday, they got married.

It was great for me and Lauren to meet his friends and family. People that we had heard so much about through his stories, finally connecting names to faces. It was so precious to re-connect with his parents, who had visited us in Sarajevo in April of 2006, the same week that my mom came to visit me. Andrew's mom is especially precious, and at the reception, she shared about one of the books that changed her life. It's entitled Bold Love. She did this as a study with a group of seven women. It took them five years to go through this book because they were so committed to healing and to applying the truths found in the book. Andrew's mom, Beth, says that the author speaks a lot about the difference between forgiveness and restoration. Meaning that one of the main differences between the two is that forgiveness takes one party, while restoration takes both parties. There was so much more to her explanation, but I simply cannot do it justice. A lot of the explanation has to do with her application of the book's principles to an example from my life. That is to be continued, as I plan on purchasing the book and seeing where it takes me. So, there's more to come...