2nd Last Day of May and feeling Revived

Today is Sunday, May 30th and it feels more like November or March, but not almost the beginning of June. That is the weather feeling but not the spiritual feeling. Jack and I have been discussing seriously for the past 2 weeks about getting back into the church groove. We feel that our soul has started to heal and that it was time to go and hear a spiritual message. Now don't get me wrong, I love doing devotions with my husband, but somehow I needed to hear a different message. Even reading the paper this morning, the Christian section talked about Christians that only go to church 2x a year (Christmas & Easter) and the only 2 messages that they get from that. My soul needs a different message and so does my heart.
So with that we decided that going to Oak Park was the right thing to do. When we entered church the elder greeting was very friendly and encouraging. Then as we walked further into the foyer we were once again greeted by several folks wearing some kind of official name tags, but again very friendly in there welcome to us. We did have a chuckle about "which other CCOC members might be there" and low and behold sitting near the back to the side were Bob & Betty Watts along with Wes & Roberta and family. So we chose to sit behind them. They commented on having had the same thought when they got to church as well.
The message that Steve McMillan gave was quite close to what the newspaper had said about the 2x a year visitors. As well he talked about the journey that Oak Park was going to be on and the new things that they were going to be doing. Most of the dialogue were things that Maryvale had already been doing so it was nice to hear that people want to give back to their community.
After church we were invited by the Watts families to go out to lunch. This proved most interesting as it allowed all of us to share our feelings on Oak Park and what/where we see ourselves going to worship. Many feelings shared were the same, and yet we were looking for different areas of interest but the main agreed interest was the need for some spiritual focus. To hear a gospel or read from the bible and hear the translation was a common factor.
We talked on the way home about it being too soon to settle on a church as well the need to not want to get involved with any ministries as of yet. So we will continue to go to several churches to have ourselves spiritually met. I know that it will take some time, but that's okay. We're not in a rush to settle and I know that when we do it will be for all the right reasons. God is everywhere and so knowing that we will take our time to be a part of his church family which is okay with us.