AMAZING!

Yes, you read that right. AMAZING!

What's so AMAZING!?

Well...nothing much really. This blog is off to a slow start so I thought a catchy title might bring in some traffic. Ha-ha! I should have been an ambulance chaser, I guess! It's been 2 weeks since our last post so I thought I'd throw a post up to kick-start the blog space here at 20 OHMS.

Today was Thursday so we had another T2 meeting. Last Thursday, we met at the McManus house for a couples-only game night. Bryan Smith was out of town so Lori was unable to come but the OHM couples were here. We had a blast! (Sorry Bryan and Lori that you couldn't come.) We borrowed Paul and Grace Becker from the San Juan team to join us for some games since their team was mostly out of the country last week and we know they enjoy playing games. (This T2 stuff is soooo much fun!)

This week was the guys-only meeting. This only comes once a month and is probably the best meeting of the month. That's b/c the guys get a chance to have some "guy time" and "male bonding" or something like that. Mostly, it's a chance to relieve our wives and children of our presence...and go out for lunch together in a rare moment without them. And to talk about...uhh...guy stuff. (not to mention I had the best ribeye steak I think I've ever eaten in my life at our local Cow Corral Restaurant...the name sounds a little better in Spanish; it wasn't as cheap as it sounds though!)

Actually, while we did enjoy some small talk, we did get down to business and got into some of our accountability issues that we want to delve into. We decided between the three of us (Brock was out-of-town and couldn't come this time) that we pray entirely too much and we need to cut back. Errrr...I mean...we all agreed that we need to pray more and do a better job at cultivating lives of prayer. We also agreed that pretty much every year we seem to sense that we need to pray more and do a better job at cultivating lives of prayer. If it sounds like I just repeated myself, good. I got my point across. It's a lifetime issue.

We've all read books on prayer, talked about prayer, and heard sermon after sermon on prayer, but at the end of the day or maybe at the beginning or perhaps in the middle, what we really need is to actually, simply....pray. AMAZING! (see there it is!)

So, of all the great and important things that came up in our meeting today, I'd rate this one point as the most important. We're resolved to holding each other accountable to pray faithfully, daily, weekly, continually...and no, not just endless requests and "thank-you for this day..." trite prayers of habit, but to really seek to immerse ourselves into continual, constant communion with God.

You'd think missionaries would already have this down pat, but I guess there's a few of us who still need to work on it. Maybe you pray too much...but if not...feel free to evaluate your own life of prayer and join us in seeking a deep, wide, river of prayer in your life too. Grab a hand and jump in with us! The water is simply divine.