If you know me well, or have been following my blog for a while, you probably know that I've had some no so great experiences with alcohol in my life. Like watch it destroy people kind of experiences. And to be totally honest, because of those things, i really, really do not like excessive alcohol consumption.
But tonight in church, we talked about taking a moment to recognize all of the ways God has been perusing you every day, the obvious, the subtle, and the ironic. And BOY was mine ironic.
So I would just like to take this short post to share a realization with you that may seem obvious to everyone else, but really hit me very first time today:
God brought the daughter of an alcoholic and the sibling of an addict to find her home in a church that means in a bar, a place that i should hate with every fiber of my being. A place that makes what destroyed the lives of two people very close to me... recreational. But I love every single piece of that bar more than I can ever explain. That bar in the middle of the city I love, houses the church that I was always meant to find. And i realized today that I was brought to that church, so that i could sit in that service today, just so God could teach me that he could take a place of chaos and sin and destruction, and turn it into a place that drowns in His glory.
That bar is a metaphor for my life, and I will never enter that building the same way ever again. He is so good.
God Bless,
Parker Roberts
title: "I Love This Bar" by Toby Keith
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