cohdowahdo

one of my favorite amsterdam memories, comes from early on... back in october, it was julia's birthday and the pathaks were in town. julia's request for dinner was indian food, out of three or four dishes one of them was pretty good! it was a really sweet time. so the pickerills and the pathaks headed up to brooke's house for a party and i stayed home with the kids. lucas and jazz are really sweet buddies, they had been inseparable all day. it was bedtime and the three of us were laying on lucas's floor (where we had made an extra little bed on top of blankets and pillows). we were laying on the floor just talking about life. jasmine's father is a pastor at the arvada vineyard in colorado. (or gigi would always say, "coh-do-wah-do") it was just so fun talking to these little people! at one point they were talking about their churches, jasmine said, "the size of my church is from connor's bed to about this much (holding her hands about a foot apart) past that wall" and then lucas said, "well my church was from my bed all the way up to mommy's bed, like a hundred pounds. it's like as big as our house" 

he was referring to his old church in columbus, my church. vineyard church. over seven thousand people go there (probably alot more?) but yes, as it is like a house in lucas's eyes, it is a home to many people. i'm so thankful for it.

somehow we went from tucking into bed in lucas's floor to the couch with ice cream cones and lots of giggling. what a sweet, sweet night for both them and me. 

that's what amsterdam was for me, an opportunity to live in the moment, serve people, love god and see little glimpses of his kingdom on earth.