Day Five: Reunion

Today we headed back to Charlottesville. It’s been two years since we’ve been back – but it has almost felt like a whole lifetime. In many ways it seems our lives have gone on and changed and grown and we’ve experienced so much. But driving up 29 North…everything just seemed…the same. (Well, except for the new Target.) It was weird. Overall, it was like we were thrown back into that old life. It was like our bizzarro world. Everything just seemed the same…but we were SO different.

We got in to Brendan and Corrie’s place. That was a great time to catch up and reconnect. Poor little Beth got fed up with the amount of Boy Power taking over her house!

At night we went to a sort of reunion party with so many old friends from the old church days. It was a time of rejoicing and refreshment. It was SO GOOD to see everyone…to see how the kids had grown and just to be in fellowship with everyone once again.


It made me appreciate how good we had it. Those people in Charlottesville are some of the best people I’ve known in my life. And it was such a privilege to have been given the opportunity to have served alongside such quality people. It was just a perfect night to re-establish old ties and to just sit and be with these people that I have loved so dearly. It was just good to be back.


My favorite part was just standing at the side of the room and just looking around at everyone reconnecting…and then just seeing the number of people who had cracked open a beer and were just enjoying living life together! (Apparently, in the past two years, everyone has been released to enjoy their freedom in Christ…and many of them have become Presbyterians!)

So funny.