Deja Vu...

Have you ever had deja vu? You know... the weird mind thing where you see something and you think you've seen it before. That happened to me tonight.

On Sunday nights we let all the kids hang out at the Rock Island House from 7-9. As I was making hamburgers in the kitchen, I looked out the window to the back patio and saw the most amazing sight. There, in the back of a house, in a neighborhood, in perhaps the roughest part of Oklahoma City were at least 10 kids playing basketball outside in the dark and they were laughing so hard! It was just a moment when I could tell everything in the world (gangs, drugs, violence, addiction) seemed so far from their minds. It was deja vu for me and I couldn't remember where I had seen it before. Then it hit me... I had seen it in my dreams. I had dreamed of a picture of our kids playing together, laughing together and feeling safe together.

I was so excited to see that dream come true tonight. Next on the list, to watch at least one of them walk across the stage and get their diploma. God is good all the time!