Time in DE

I write this from the home of John, Sydney, Jacob, Evan, Hadley, Bailey, Simeon, Solomon, Noah, Micah, Isaiah, Anna, Malena, Casey, Quinn, Cecilia, and Seth (still in China). Yep, I'm with Aaron, Seth, and my new buddy from the Republic of Georgia--Andrew. We're in Delaware for a few days with these guys... We've been here more than two days and it's been great...

It's incredible to be able to see... people who are doing it--living the life described in the Beattitudes. They're doing it every day. the meekness and the patience and the persistence of the gospel, lived out in daily life...

They all do their chores each morning after breakfast. Beds get made, floors get sweeped, dishes cleaned, everything--all in a beautiful, authentic, chaos... like a salt and pepper tornado of round heads, beautiful braids, and blondie locks, swimming about... Singing, laughing, yelling, crying, screaming... playing outdoors, building forts, skateboarding, bike riding...

It's great to see a huge, american-typical, house--you know, in a neighborhood full of large houses... and this house is full of life. The kids are playing, and the cars in the driveway are all "not new", not status symbols, and there are guests parking next to the driveway... and it's living large...

Some neighbors are lobbying to have them sanctioned by the neigh.assoc. for having too many children. there have been complaints about the children playing outside.

When they went to church one time, one of their kids noted that the other kids don't have bumps and bruises on their legs. It's because most kids don't build forts outside, or dig, or jump, or bump around like them... no kidding. suburban, affluent america is more sedentary and sated with entertainment than ever... no kidding... it's real...

there's no danger from that kind of difference, though. the assoc will never touch them because there are lots of folks here who don't care about that kind of small stuff... they are a great family for this ney-hd.

We visited NY for about three days, and here for about three days... good trip...

Thanks for checking in

thanks to all of you who check this blog. I know that it is out of love (or morbid curiosity, or scrounging for the dirt on me) that you are here.

I haven't been posting a lot for some time now, because I've been getting some "heart surgery" done, and I don't want to mess it up by speaking or writing a lot about it...

Suffice it to say that I and my family, and the family of God around us, have entered one of the most blessed seasons--one of the most comforting and strengthening seasons--of my personal history. We have found ourselves in a "greenness of pasture".



There is such a richness of the Spiritual stuff going on in our midst that you'd have to come stay here a few days to really get a feel. Suffice it to say that "Aslan is on the move."

ALL NIGHT PRAYER THIS FRIDAY NIGHT 8PM

I love entering a room and being notified that the Holy Spirit has called us to an all-nighter. I love when the Body is listening and hearing... I love not being the center of the church family... Thank you God. We meet You. Amen...

Prayer

I'd like to greet you all in the Name... Love that Name...

Hey. Where's Lew been? Where've all the blog entries gone? What's up with the long absence and hte sparse material?
Fear not, faithful readers. Blogging isn't dead around here. I'm just marinating in stuff that I don't want to sully.

Around the house, it's all been about the prayer... A couple months back, we started to hear from Father that we're to be devoted to the acts 2 stuff, and so we kind of "redefined" our ideas of ministry/community around that.

We got reduced from being a "ministry" to being a family. Sophistication has dropped down a bunch of notches, and expectations are set with childlike joy to the "Kingdom" levels, again... "Community" talk is down. Love talk is up. Shame is out. Grace is in...

There has been a major season or refreshing on us. We're just seeing Father doing so many kind and powerful things among us. For instance, we've had some major prayers for deliverance (demonic), and inner healing answered. There has also been a refreshing of worship and spiritual gifts in our meeting times. When we come together now, the format is more "open" than ever. almost everybody comes with something to share to build up the body, and the ensuing worship an dprayer is awesome.

Pax

Last Night at Chat's

Last night I was at Chat's in downtown Orlando. Leading worship, sharing prophetically and teaching, and being blessed and prayed over for my life and our family in Christ in Cinci... Chat and Wendy run an incredible household of hospitality and grace in Orly, there... Many thanks to you for the love we share.

Lew in Florida

All is well in Grubbykupp Land, folks. Thanks for praying. The Father is caring for us all, daily. We are so glad to belong to Him. Our fellowship in cincinnati is focusing on our identity of belonging to Him, and bearing out the fruit of that... We are in Acts 2, again...

Lew is in Florida. You may know that through a wonderful confluence of reconciliation and miracle love we have been part of a church in Florida called The Body of Christ--a ragtag bunch of...LOVErs of Jesus... and US... Lew is among them, sharing spiritual gifts and soaking in the Jesus vibe there...

More soon to come. Lew's back on the blogin' horse. Thanks for praying...

explain

i owe you all a post of explaination... I haven't been posting because so much has been happening... this life is so intense. Judy had some small surgery and a big infection... my exchange kids have been leaving... the church has been in growing pains--things are great with church lately...

and i've been majorly learning some stuff and have needed nonverbal processing... lots of time in song and silence... not to mention that my little white g3 kinda pooped out on me...

so, I'll be back at ya soon.