Ethel's
(Warning: If you are legalistic about drinking alcohol, please don't read this. If you are a teenager, it is illegal to drink alcohol before you are 21. SO WAIT!)

We have been hanging out with some friends and growing relationally for awhile now. When I went to Ozzfest the other week Trish and some of the girls went to Ethel's for a "bucket."

Ethel's is a little bar down the street, that quite honestly, I didn't even know existed until Trish told me about it. They have a special concoction that they put in a bucket with a bunch of straws and everybody sips off of it. (Hopefully the alcohol kills the germs...) It's a little dive that holds about 20 people in our small town.

Anyway, we started meeting some folks there just to hang out together. We were kidding around in our gathering that we're going to tell the pastor that we have a small group at Ethel's. It seems like everyone that hears we are doing this wants to join us! Sunday, another lady from church wanted to know why "she wasn't invited." It's funny how God works. When you quit trying to have fellowship, and allow yourself the freedom to be who you are, fellowship happens naturally, and in the most interesting places....