🙌It's the Friday Call to Worship!🙌

I recently spent an afternoon with moms ahead of me in their special needs parenting journeys. A familiar knot twisted in my gut as they shared about unenrolling their children from school. My personal nightmare, one I push down deep, was tea time conversation. You see, statistics agree with every story I've heard. Children with my son's diagnosis are often unable to stay in school and endure so much just trying to grow up.

I've been wrestling through another round of disillusionment and wiping fresh tears for the struggles I don't want our son to live with. But God met at that table. His Holy Spirit whispered to my fear-filled spirit amidst chatter and very real life.

I leaned into the cup of Earl Grey and joined conversations about extreme parenting, sibling relationships, and family dinners not working. An unseen Spirit-to-spirit conversation was happening within me at the same time. I sipped, shared, and was simultaneously committing to God to continue lifting our son in prayer and be grateful for whatever ways He answered.

We are all invited to the table of needing God and finding Him there. In fact, most often, when I cannot find Him and the internal storms are too stormy, it's the seemingly insignificant time at the table with others where I experience His peace. I didn't necessarily need to hear the words the other moms spoke, but I wouldn't have heard the ones within if I hadn't showed up.

Jesus said, "For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them." (Matthew 18:20) The storms won't stop in this lifetime, but the Savior's love is made complete through us when we come together.

Invite someone to tea today, and listen to "God Did" by Sons of Sunday. (Turn it up! You're going to like it.)