3.26.2005

Yay Julieanne!

First of all- kudos to Julieanne! She regularly comments on my blog and makes me feel super special. Thanks Julie. Everyone comment on Julie's blog and tell her how stupendous and awesome she is.

Julieanne rocks like um, a very large boulder!

That's a nice boulder. :) (Sorry- Shrek reference.)

So it's after midnight and I just got home from hanging out after group. It was AWESOME, with a capital "A". Yay! We only had one guy there who had never seen it (the Passion), and understandably he went home right after group- not exactly in the mood for socializing. The rest of us had each had new revelations and we were able to fellowship and laugh in light of God's grace and mercy and coolness. We ended up way hyper (weird considering what we had just watched and how we'd all been bawling!) and really, really enjoyed one another's company. Awe-semme. More on my cool revelation later...

Afterwards, we went to Denny's. I didn't buy anything (no money=no buying food) but Kristy shared her dinner with me, and Sarah gave me a crouton that fell off of her plate. Shucks. :)

We talked and laughed (a lot!) and had a great time.

The highlight of my day, however... was an opportunity that God presented and I took! Yay, God!

So here's the story:

The young adult group at our church meets every friday night at Greg's (7pm if you wanna come!). We talk and hang out there til about 9:30 or 10:00 (which is way too late for poor Greg) and then we all go to Denny's (because nowhere else is open that late in this little po-dunk town) and hang out and eat. It's great fun- and we've all had the opportunity to meet and talk to a particular waiter there. His name is Dan.

Dan is very talkative (maybe he talks too much for being at work) and has kind of a forward personality. That's not bad though; it instigates lots of interesting conversation and has allowed us to start some kind of friendship with him. He recognizes us when we come in and even though he can't always remember our names, we remember his and we talk and laugh together. He's not really a happy person, but he's very funny and could be a good friend.

Two weeks ago, he informed us that he had given his two week notice.Apparently working at Denny's really sucks. Tomorrow is his last day.

He was our waiter again tonight. We talked a little... and at the end, when we were leaving, God was prompting me to give him our (me and Joel's) phone number. I said, "If you ever just want to hang out, we all get together fairly often and it'd be cool to see you again." He said, "I can never remember your guys' names..."

I gave him my number and said, "I'm Keri... and I belong to Joel." (I wanted to make sure he knew I wasn't hitting on him!) He smiled at that and the waitress thought it was really cool that I introduced myself that way, even though Joel wasn't with us tonight (he watched the Passion with the youth). Dan said it'd be great to hang out, that he thought we were cool and we'd see eachother again. Yes!

Anyway, long story-->short, the ball is in Dan's court. Pray that God will prompt him to initiate a lasting friendship with all of us, and that we can somehow show him the love of God through our lives. He's a cool guy, and it would be neat to have a friend like him!



love, me

posted by keri at 12:11 AM