Naming Stones
For the last few months, my Sunday afternoons have lovingly been referred to as "Beer and Bibles". In July, a small group of my people and I started meeting at our local brewery to work through studies and discuss our lives, family and faith. We started as three and have grown to 5 now, and together we have been through difficulties with work and children, marriages and parents. We've seen health issues and finance concerns. We've raised a glass to blessings and to dumpster fires. These afternoons have become so meaningful to me, as has our rolling group text which may contain anything from a silly meme to a serious request. There is trust in this circle. And that is beautiful. Our latest study has had us working through the seasons and the land of our hearts. We've cultivated and tended and this week, we cleared. It was an exercise we'd all done before in one way or another: name a burden you carry. Give it physical weight and then release it. If it is p