God is STILL Creating Out of Chaos!

Today was our first of 2 Launch-Day rehearsals.

Jennifer & I spent the last week running around like chickens with our heads cut off, trying to get everything we needed for today.

That did NOT happen.

Turns out there are two things going on in town that have... Ummm... "Hindered" us a bit.

Maybe you've heard of them: something they like to call "The Super Bowl" and then this other little local festival called "Mardi Gras."

Oh... You've heard of 'em?!

Yeah, well, as you can imagine, "hinderances" prevented today's rehearsal from having all of the equipment we needed.

Despite that, we were able to get everyone into position & start putting the last 6 months of planning into practice.

And it was... (Anyone wanna guess what I'm gonna say here?)

CHAOS!

Yep: pure, unadulterated, OMG, what-have-I-gotten-myself-into, how-are-we-gonna-pull-this-off-in-two-weeks chaos.

I felt like the villain in some old Kung Fu movie: "Ahh, Chaos... Welcome. We have been expecting you."

And we were expecting some chaos.

And we got some chaos.

A LOT of chaos.

At the end of the day, we told everyone that this chaos was normal & that we'd work through it next week. And that's all true: we will... But judging from the looks on their faces, many of them weren't buying it!

So, after the meeting was over (& copious amounts of lunch were ingested), I decided to send out a little word of encouragement to our Launch Team.

As I was typing this thought came to me: "Out of chaos, God created everything."

Whoa! That was good!

I thought it again (this time on purpose!): "Out of chaos, God created everything."

Then I thought about the chaos of our meeting today: "Judging from today's meeting, He's gonna hafta do it again!"

Then I put the two thoughts together: "Out of chaos, God created everything. Judging from today's meeting, He's gonna hafta do it again!"

Then I remembered WHO we're talking about: God!

And the most amazing peace came over me. It added one more thought to the two previous: "God creates out of chaos EVERY DAY... He's God!"

So I put it all together & sent it to our Launch Team: "Out of chaos, God created everything. Judging from today's meeting, He's gonna hafta do it again! But that's OK... That's WHAT He does!"

In fact, He has never STOPPED creating out of chaos... That's one of the things that clearly identify Him as God!

And He has called US--you & me!--to be part of this wonderful mess... This divine disorder... This creative chaos... THROUGH which & IN which God is always working to accomplish His will.

Yes, my friends, I am happy to report that God is STILL creating out of chaos!