Weird New Year's Eve

Sunday was a pretty cool day, and there were a few weird things that you don't normally see on a New Year's Eve. First of all, God really showed up at worship. One of the main themes revolved around the idea of God not just loving us (think annoying relative), but actually likes us (think good friend you like to hang with). I feel like this is a lesson we've heard before, but it's not a natural one for us, I think, and apparently it's something we need to keep learning.

Anyway, at the end of the service, God sealed the lesson in an amazing way. At one point, while dinner was cooking, it was simulatenously sunny, rainy, windy (probably gusting to 20+ mph), warm (probably upper 50s), there was a rainbow of which we could literally see the entire thing (from one horizon to the other), and the sun was setting to some amazing reds and blues. Oh yeah, and all this was taking place on December 31. How crazy/amazing/weird is that?

I was reminded again of something one of the bum's friends said a long time ago while we were at Taylor: if God will put so much energy into making a beautiful moment like this, that's gone in just a few seconds, how much more effort and beauty does He put into us, who are made to live forever and are designed for eternal communion with Him? See first paragraph...