DCB and Shane and Shane

DCB in A - town was tonight. Wow! Talk about a invigorating few hours. I rushed around today trying to act busy and almost missed the Samual J Serio bus to Athens but luckily made it in time after traffic (not to self: do not drive more than 2 blocks on Halloween night before 3. People freak out and leave work early as if they candy will run out. I will not do this when I have children.)
We had some time to stop in to Five Star Day and do a little round of collards and black eyed peas. Sweet Charlsie even came by to surprise me and meet my friends. This was a highlight of the night too.
Then we headed to the Classic Center in the Classic City, all 46 of us. (Kudos to Tomi on this one. He was the mac-daddy organizer along with T-Dawg Newton. And this is another topic for another day - but how amazing is this group of people. Most of us know each other through Buckhead Church here in Atlanta. But many of us dont know anyone. Buckhead does an amazing job of setting up comfortable environments for people to meet others walking the same path in life - right now our's is the Single path.....I could talk about this for days and will).
Okay, so, Shane and Shane opened and they were so amazing. I am not good with adjectives or creativity at this hour - PS.

Then David Crowder Band took the stage and rocked our faces off despite some recent tragic news conerning one of the bands dear friends and pastor's of their home church. David said that despite the loss there is so much to be thankful for and so much to get excited for and he proceeded to put on an amazing show. How beautiful to hear the entire Classic Center full of voices alive for Christ. One of my favorite hymns is Come Thou Fount and when David started this one the place was filled with an undescribable melody. I had a permanant smile and was elated as I could hear the voices of my buddies and non-buddies singing to a God who is so much bigger than anything else personal that was going on with anyone.
David said that the exciting news was that death was defeated and though he knew tomorrow would be a day of mourning - he could rejoice because death can not be feared because Christ has freed us from that fear.

Thank you God for a beautiful night with beautiful friends.
And, yes, DQ on the way home....a little butter finger blizzard was the icing on the cake!
And of course there is a cute picture below. Good times....