Ever wonder what it feels like to truly be seen, understood, and connected with a group of individuals journeying through faith together? In this episode, we listen to Sara, Lauren, Shannon, and Erin, as they share a glimpse of their weekly New City Circle—where faith, vulnerability, and a good cup of coffee converge to create a lifeline of honest conversations, where trust is as transparent as the glasses through which God sees us. The stories shared in this episode are a testament to the power of community in not only understanding but also living out our identities in Christ.
To find out more about Circles at NewCity, you can visit the Circles page on in our Church Center app.
Ever wonder what it feels like to truly be seen, understood, and connected with a group of individuals journeying through faith together? In this episode, we listen to Sara, Lauren, Shannon, and Erin, as they share a glimpse of their weekly New City Circle—where faith, vulnerability, and a good cup of coffee converge to create a lifeline of honest conversations, where trust is as transparent as the glasses through which God sees us. The stories shared in this episode are a testament to the power of community in not only understanding but also living out our identities in Christ.
To find out more about Circles at NewCity, you can visit the Circles page on in our Church Center app.
Hey friends, we are so glad to be recording this podcast about our New City circles. I'm Sarah and I'm here with my friends, Lauren Shannon, and I'm going to be recording this podcast about an.
Speaker 1:Erin yes, amazing. Okay, so we're going to talk a little bit about what our circle looks like and how we've experienced Jesus in our circle, but I wanted to start out by just really quickly sharing what a circle is. So, those who are listening, if you haven't been in a circle or you're new to New City, you have a bit of an idea for what it looks like. So a circle is three to six men or women who are following Jesus together in transparent trust to love God with all of themselves, love their neighbors as themselves and make disciples by giving themselves. So let's start by just saying who we are and where you might see us on a Sunday, and also, what is your go to coffee drink.
Speaker 3:Okay, lauren here. Hey, I'm typically a back row gal, so you might find me there, that's right. I also sometimes serve in city kids with the purple class. Yep they are three to turning three, I think, yeah, yes, they're a great time, and I typically take my coffee black, unless I am at lineage, and then I will have a honey latte.
Speaker 1:So good.
Speaker 2:So my name is Shannon. You can find me at New City, sometimes singing. Every Sunday I'm chasing one of my two children around or letting them go buck wild around the church, and sometimes I help check kiddos in to my favorite coffee. I just do Duncan French press every morning. Yeah, I keep it real simple, with a little flavor creamer. But what flavor? Yes, man, it's like a. I'd have to think about that. It alter, it's seasonal, it is seasonal.
Speaker 4:Love that. Yeah, I'm into gingerbread right now. I'm still like trailing off the whole season.
Speaker 5:I know I would be the season, it would be like lavender lemon drop like spring, it's bring me some simple syrup and I made you make a blueberry simple syrup this morning.
Speaker 2:I'm sorry, I would put that my coffee.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I love that. Okay, my turn.
Speaker 5:I'm Erin, and you will also find me in the back row with lojo. Yeah, fantastic, sometimes I sing also and I also serve with students, student community and I lead a seventh and eighth grade girl circle and they are rad. Rad means cool.
Speaker 1:Thanks for translating my drink that I drink.
Speaker 5:I don't drink coffee anymore. I drink a good matcha. I would prefer it iced with almond milk with like a tiny bit of honey, or blue blue blue berry.
Speaker 1:Simple syrup Amazing. Yeah, I'm Sarah and I let's see on a Sunday. You'll also see me in the back row with lojo and Erin, I know You've got to get you back there, or you might see me with city kids, checking kiddos in, yeah, or just running around. My favorite coffee drink is like a good pour over with half, and half is my favorite at the moment.
Speaker 1:I will also sometimes do like heavy whipping cream in my coffee which is like so good, Okay. So, Shannon, would love for you to talk first about like how do we so? Most people at new city are juggling family, work, friendships. They have really full lives. So can you speak to like how we make space for a circle which is meeting weekly for at least an hour and a half, maybe two, maybe two and a half? How have you made space for?
Speaker 2:that? Yeah, that's a good question, especially because I think at new city we value both small groups or communities and circles, and so that could end up being like two nights a week, and I know for me I want to be home, like putting my kids in bed. But my husband I just have to thank him, like he just values this.
Speaker 2:for me he sees the value in it and he promotes it. He's like, oh and so I think, because we see the value and he sees a different Shannon when I come back after group two you know, one that looks a little lighter and happier and more joy and more processed emotions, and so he does really support it.
Speaker 2:And then I think it helps that he meets for his circle in the morning. So I think if you're like married with kids and are juggling how do I do circle and small group yeah, it could be a really good option if one of you all could meet in the early morning with your group too.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I love that. Okay, so what would you say to like a married couple with kids that are trying to start a circle, but it feels like a little bit impossible, like what would you tell them? I know we didn't talk about this question.
Speaker 2:Well, I have heard of some people doing alternating like circle with small group, like every other week back and forth. So I definitely think that's an option because there's there's just a special intimacy to circle that communities just by sheer number of urgent, by sheer like volume, don't get into the depth, I think, of our stories and our struggle. That happens in circle. So if you can make it happen, I think it would be really helpful.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Erin or Lodz. Would you add anything to that about how you've made it work with lives and schedules?
Speaker 3:Yeah, I think it definitely feels a bit easier with no kiddos also juggling that and yeah, I just feel like it's so worth it. I think being in one it really is like one of the most precious times of the week to me and, yeah, like Shan was saying, has brought so much joy and life to me. So I think whatever you can do to make it work, make it happen.
Speaker 1:Because we're so amazing. I love that. Okay, Lauren, how have you experienced Jesus?
Speaker 3:in our circle.
Speaker 1:Why do you come every week?
Speaker 3:So many reasons. Yeah, oh gosh. I love these girls. I think the Lord has done so many kind of things through them to me. A moment I hold dear. Yeah, this must have been almost like a year ago, I think it was right when we were starting and we were spending time on the word together and I don't even remember what we were reading, but I remember sharing that my experience of being in the word that week had just been being faced with or seeing over and over again like where I am and the gap between where I feel like I should be, where I need to be and what this text is calling me to be.
Speaker 3:And yeah, I just remember you, shannon, sharing with me. Yeah, what if I thought of it not as like me, having to strive to become something that I'm not, but that the person that I'm trying to become is already true of me and Christ, and to live out of the spirit and who God has made me to be and lean into that which is already mine. And I think that just has changed the way that I engage scripture even now and will continue to impact me for the rest of my life in the word. And so, yeah, that just felt like a sweet gift from God that I treasure.
Speaker 1:I'm just thinking about. I feel like listeners should know that, as we were prepping to record, we were like starting to share stories and there was like so much meaning behind just remembering, like how Jesus has met us in these places and also just so much laughter. We're doing great so far.
Speaker 5:Yeah, we had like 12 laugh attacks.
Speaker 1:So, yeah, it is now. Yeah, okay. So, Aaron, it's on you, um, would you give like specific moments or memories of how we, as a circle have like supported you Um how you've been met by Jesus?
Speaker 5:Yeah, we started a year ago, which I think this year has been one of the hardest years of my life and it's been really needed, like I think I'm seeing, um, you guys as an answer to prayer for sure Um, why this this year has been so hard, or just the past few years? Because I've just been walking through a lot of stuff with working through my story and my past and my family background and I think the sweetest thing for me that I found in this group is like a family.
Speaker 5:I was just thinking about you guys and how. I'm like, oh, I just there's been so many times I've been so extremely lonely the past few years as I've chosen to, yeah, work through how hard my upbringing was and I have just felt like I don't have a family and then I'm like looking around on Thursday nights.
Speaker 5:I'm like what am I even thinking? I literally have like sisters all around me that I've always longed for and he's given it to me. Um, so I've just experienced, like, yeah, god's kindness and not forgetting me. Uh, yeah, cause it's it's easy to forget, or it's easy to think that he's forgotten me when life is so hard. Um, but even today I was. I was reading this question. I'm like, wait, oh, I'm so glad you opened my eyes to see that I have, I have family that actually like, love me, point me to Jesus, they don't harm me. Um, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:That's so beautiful. Yeah, you're welcome, girl, yeah.
Speaker 3:I still resonate with that word family. That's what I would describe you guys too, yeah.
Speaker 1:It makes me think of um. I shared this story with the membership class when we were talking about circles, Um, but it makes me think of the moment when I won't give all the backstory but I came into circle, had just had a conversation with my parents, but like did it really know how that was impacting me? I knew I fell off in some way, but it wasn't until, like Shannon really pressed in and really like didn't let me avoid how it was impacting me and it was the safe person in place that I needed to actually grieve, that I like really wanted a mother and I really wanted a sister and I didn't have that. And like you sitting down with me on the ground and just embracing me, like my head was literally on your chest and I just sobbed and yeah, like I knew in that moment that you were healing. Something like that sounds weird. I just knew like, oh, this is a moment when I'm experiencing someone who's not my biological mother or sister. Like be that for me in a really real way.
Speaker 2:Wow, that's like super impactful to hear and um, I don't know. Just in some of these examples it's like I also feel like we're a part of how do I say it? Like this deeper spiritual work of like maybe seeing how we might have been lied to and pointing each other to the truth of who we are.
Speaker 2:Even in just how easy it is to love all of you guys when we might have like picked up from our stories, like how could somebody love me in this, or how could I be wanted in this, and for us to move toward each other, be like no, even in this.
Speaker 2:you know, it gets just so easy to want to embrace you guys in the midst of whatever you're going through and yeah, so I think, even like I think, about coming to group every week in terms of Lord, how are you going to minister to me and through these women, but also how might you use me, um? And it is just feeling like that reciprocal way that we just see that the Lord at work um using each other in that way.
Speaker 1:Yeah, maybe when we didn't even realize it.
Speaker 4:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:So that like moves really well into how we've experienced belonging and connection within our circle, which I think we're speaking to now. Um, Erin, would you add anything to? Yeah, I mean, it feels like you did in that we are family.
Speaker 5:Yeah, I think I would add um. I think I would add um. I think I would add um. I think I've been coming to New City for I think two years now, maybe two and a half years. I mean, me and my husband moved to Florida yeah, two and a half years ago, and I was just longing for friends. We moved, I think, like three times in a matter of like three years after getting married, and I just was like looking around, I mean, I think our first Sunday at church, Michael and I were like so desperate to find friends.
Speaker 5:We just were just like went up to so many different people like do you want to get lunch? Hey, we're new.
Speaker 4:We just were so hungry.
Speaker 5:Like, please, we definitely look desperate, but we were, anyways, all that to say. I think finding you guys and God, yeah, having you stick out as like people that I want to learn from, be loved by, I want to love you guys. I just like I want to look like you guys in a lot of ways. I think I, yeah, just once again, I just didn't feel as lonely, like I needed real people to walk through really hard things with me and I think I just felt a lot less crazy to like share stories about my life or hard things and people be able to understand me too.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, I just I feel like the, the consistency of circle, the like duration of time we've spent together, the intentionality around there being depth, I do feel like there's like a unique connection that I feel with you guys. That is harder to experience when you're just, yeah, bumping into people at church on Sunday or even within your community group. There's something like sacred about this context.
Speaker 5:Oh yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 5:And I think everyone would agree with like if you I don't know how to fully explain this, but I think the word I think about is like just being seen, yeah, like you don't walk away from this group. Not being seen, Like I just don't, it's just almost. Sometimes I get it's like obnoxious of like how much people can see you, or like not miss a thing which is, yeah, just really rare and beautiful.
Speaker 1:Something you said, erin, made me think about. Like you said something about wanting to, you can drink my tea, that's fine.
Speaker 3:I said I didn't want to and was offered tea many times and now you're stealing mine.
Speaker 1:Oh my goodness, yeah, something you said about like women that you admire, want to be like, want to know, made me think of a time like, specifically in our text thread, we send like audios, we send texts, and it was a time when, I don't know, it felt like all of us were facing different, difficult things all at the same time, which, honestly, that happens a lot. And it was this moment of like wow, like God, like not only do I want to be like these women, but I also am, like we are living faithfully before God together.
Speaker 4:And.
Speaker 1:I get to see you guys live that out and not yeah, not feel alone in it. It's really powerful.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, I'm glad you touched on that because I think that this has expanded out beyond the once a week meeting. But, like, if I'm struggling in any way, I know I can send an audio message or prayer and you guys are right back with it, you know, like encouraging me, praying for me, and I feel that I feel that connection to you guys, the access to you guys like at any time, and that's been a real gift. I just think it's been fun to catch you guys like in your glory, like in the glory that God has like bestowed on you, and to be able to to call that out when I see it like because I think we can oftentimes like be our own worst critics and only focus on like where am I wrong or sinning, or where do I need to improve.
Speaker 2:And it's just been and you guys have done that for me like times where I feel like I've blown it in this interaction with my kid, or like in this conflict with my husband, and like you're able to like point me to yeah, but look at how you know you repented in front of them.
Speaker 2:Or you prayed with them, or you and Logan got on the other side of that like, and I just I didn't. I can't see that on my own. I need to be pointed to that and I don't. Maybe that fits into belonging, but I think how we see each other is actually probably more in line with how God sees us than oftentimes how we see ourselves yeah. I felt that, and maybe that's what you mean by seeing, seen like I feel, seen rightly like accurately for who I am.
Speaker 4:Yeah, yeah, we've offered each other that?
Speaker 1:yeah, that's so good. How did?
Speaker 2:you say, as I'm tearing up as I'm tearing up we knew it was coming sand tears up birds do.
Speaker 1:I get a prize but what you said, like we see each other more as God sees us than we see ourselves. So, like we're helping each other like, yeah, like see the father's face towards us, like how he is actually seeing us, yeah, yeah, okay, so one of the like hopes for circles is that there would be a like growth of transparent trust, which is like this gift of presence, like being with each other not only physically, which there's something to be said for being physically with each other once a week. We know that we like need time to be with each other, but also emotionally with each other and attunement. So seeing like truly how we're coming in, what we're holding, what we're carrying, and resonance oh my gosh, I'm like looking at your faces and I'm not sure what's happening.
Speaker 2:I'm tracking, I'm.
Speaker 5:I'm truly like a five-year-old, like.
Speaker 4:I can't stop laughing in my head.
Speaker 5:Yeah, I hope people can understand what's happening and I don't know if we hope the people can understand our difficulty communicating.
Speaker 1:I don't know. Okay, so that's transparent trust. How have we seen that in our circle, shannon?
Speaker 2:well, okay. So I thought I did think of this quote because I had some a chance to think about this question, but that seals Luke CS Lewis quote when he says friendship is born out of the moment. When they, when someone says, wait, you too. I thought I was the only one. And so just this idea that we're not alone in what we struggle with and suffer through, and and I knew, like going into circle, that like the extent to which I am transparent and like bringing my authentic self is the extent to which I will feel loved in return, and like healed, and so if I'm not bringing that self, then I can always. I think it was Tim Keller who said, like if we're loved but not known, there's something kind of superficial about that. And so I just knew I'm like I want both and it's worth the risk of seeing if I can have both here.
Speaker 2:And I just remember, like the first time we, the first meeting, happened to be like the first part of lent, and I had felt like the Lord was asking me to give up, like one of my biggest, like crutches idols is like shopping retail therapy, like I will go to that and him like last year, 2023, like you need to fast from this and turn to me instead, and so that was like the first thing I brought to group, like, hey, this is what I'm stepping into.
Speaker 2:Will you step into this with me? And really, like, over the course of like 20 minutes, I think you guys had surfaced some of these like deeper longings in me for rest in my brain and also to access something of beauty, and I just was so helped by that like not keeping this like sin pattern at this like behavioral level, but actually seeing what was driving that or what I was really longing for, and like that's just work that I can't do on my own and I really have you, both, you all in my heads, like what I'm going shopping, okay, I'm probably needing rest and I need to access beauty, and what are like other ways of attaining that other than this yeah.
Speaker 2:So I would say that, yeah, watching you guys respond to me in my transparency is what has built the trust you know. And so, even like the word accountability, I think it makes me afraid, like I think it has some connotations to it of like, oh, let me hold you to this, a standard that you're inevitably gonna not meet, and how are people gonna hold that? And so I would say, even out like how I've experienced accountability from you guys is just like a pointing of appointing me to who I really am, and so like I can throw off what doesn't belong to me anymore because, shan, this isn't who you are, this is who you are and again.
Speaker 2:That's just like work that I feels really hard to do on my own, so thank you gals yeah yeah, and you're amazing at that. That's when, that's when you get, that's when you preach. You've got a passion behind like showing us, helping us see who we, who we really are.
Speaker 5:I get a little fiery because I'm like wait, how do you not see it? Yeah, stunning and alive and bright, and yeah, we all fall, but you know, god helps us back up. What is this quote? I'm giving me once again a microphone, I don't know.
Speaker 1:I love it, yeah, I, as you were talking, shannon, it like again reminds me of there's something that we could see in you, like the attunement is like seeing, yeah, where you are and how you're coming in, but like also pointing to what you, you, how you uniquely bear God's image, and like the dignity in you, yeah, that you couldn't see in yourself, but also like how we I don't know there was like awareness that came from that of like, oh, here's what I'm really wanting and how can I look for that in other places which is just so cool that that awareness can come from like being together.
Speaker 1:Okay, hello, joe. Part of being in a circle is like supporting one another, encouraging one another, praying for one another in disciple making and, you know, I it feels important for me to say that all of us do that really heavily in our vocations as mom, as teacher, as therapist, as friend, as wife. There's like this, yeah, it's a part of our daily lives. So that feels really important to highlight and I think that we have uniquely supported one another in those ways. How have you experienced, yeah, us like supporting you in your love of not-yet-believers.
Speaker 3:Yeah, oh, I feel like you guys have just rallied around me and my people that I want to know the Lord so much.
Speaker 3:Yeah, for my birthday we went to the beach and my brother is not yet a believer and neither is his girlfriend and they both came and I've brought them around, community and friends, believers before, but it just felt so different having you girls there and even like the extension of our circle and Michael Aaron's husband Mike came as well and, yeah, I just felt so ministered to you through you guys loving on my family and just the way that you welcomed them and yeah, you just were like so kind and so warm and yeah, like I know that you all have been praying for them and it just was really sweet to get to see you guys pursue friendship with them. And even Michael like dipped into some spiritual conversation and like just the organic way with my brother and I think you swapped numbers with my brother's girlfriend and to talk about cats. Yes, yeah, it's a great point of bonding.
Speaker 5:Cats lead to the gospel Shout out carrot, my cat, if you're listening.
Speaker 3:Oh my gosh, it's so amazing, yeah, but I just felt like I really felt like wow, I'm not alone in pursuing my family and for them to know Jesus, and yeah, I felt so grateful for that.
Speaker 4:I love that Wow.
Speaker 1:I don't know if encouraging is the right word, but it's something to like remember moments of us coming together and and and like realizing oh, like that was so easy, like it was so easy to be with you in that, and there's not a question that we want to, but the impact of us loving your brother is so significant.
Speaker 3:Oh, yeah, yeah, oh my gosh, absolutely yeah, I also think I didn't even want to do this podcast, and now here I am, like just taking up a little more as the base, like you didn't even ask me for it, take it all.
Speaker 1:Hello Jo.
Speaker 3:But yeah, I feel like, uh, shannon, I feel like you, so let us out in vulnerability and you guys built the like the transparent trust I think, before, like long before I feel like I really started to partake in it.
Speaker 3:I think um yeah, I was like, really over the summer, that I feel like the Lord started revealing more of like a coping mechanism for me of not wanting to take up space and um wanting to be small relationally and feeling most comfortable when I'm asking questions or I'm engaging others, and um, yeah, even like the shame and self-hatred that lives under that and feeds that um, and so I just feel like you guys were so patient in drawing me out and in pursuit of me and in holding space for me and um, yeah, and Shannon, you like having the vision of my glory and um wanting me to take up more space, like that feels really tender to me and some of um. I had some really sweet time with the Lord around this topic, um, while I was at a cabin and Aaron, for my birthday, literally had a picture of this cabin like painted for me. That's in my home, and so, yeah, the love and support and kindness from these girls is just unreal and I'm really grateful for him.
Speaker 2:Who would have thought this whole thing? We would just be like like revealing how much we love each other.
Speaker 5:People are like what is going on?
Speaker 1:Who do Like. Should we be listening to this? It's so lovey.
Speaker 5:Yes, you should, I wanted to say to Lauren. I was like, oh, you were, like it's so worth the weight of like letting you come out of your shell and being like oh, we're just gonna keep showing up for you and showing up for each other.
Speaker 5:She's very quick to be like no, no, no, what's going on with you? Wait, oh no, no, I'm good, I'm good, I'm good, I'm good, I'm good, and I think it's just like it's an honor to be able to like be a part of just sitting and waiting, I think for all of you guys. But, as you're saying, I'm like, oh yeah, you are, so you're such a big person in my life. I don't want you to feel like you're small, you know.
Speaker 4:Thank you, lady. Oh, you're welcome.
Speaker 1:Now I feel like we could just keep telling stories.
Speaker 5:I did want to say something about Jesus.
Speaker 1:That's great.
Speaker 5:Yes, well, I was just thinking about how the thing that I longed for the most was for people to like point me to Jesus and I like wanted good friends that loved me and saw me.
Speaker 5:But I, yeah, it's easy and suffering to be mad at God, which I am and have trying to work through but I think, as we're like talking right now, I'm realizing how much truly you guys are like the hands and feet and ears and like all the things of God, and it's so easy to miss, like, it's easy to come to you guys and say like, oh, I don't even know where God is, like what is he doing? He must have lost me or something. And then, oh, I'm talking to these friends that are speaking life into me, like God's word into me, and then realizing, oh, my goodness, like he is here. I'm wanting to do more of that and I'm realizing that right now, or just that, oh, yeah, god does, god hasn't left me. There's proof of just him using you guys as people, as sisters, as friends, to love me and walk me through this really hard time of my life.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so thank you.
Speaker 3:Jesus, thank you, jesus.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, any last thoughts before we close up. No pressure, but just want to give space.
Speaker 5:We wanted to also share with you guys kind of what our circle looks like when we meet, and so we meet every Thursday night, usually every week at seven to probably nine right guys, I don't know, we take our time.
Speaker 1:It's a struggle to get out.
Speaker 5:I just got a piano so we've been singing and worshiping together we're good to sing of last yeah um, and we have a big pot of tea, some sort of chocolate thing, and a beeswax candle it's fantastic. I'm just setting it all up. This is not required for any of y'all sitting on the floor or the couch to allow you guys into the moment dim lighting.
Speaker 1:No fluorescent lights. Yeah, we don't like that. What is that?
Speaker 5:um anyways and uh uh. We usually start off um with scripture. That's what we have been trying to do. I think it's easy for us as people who are really attuned to people or like we just can tell what people are walking in with, to just quickly go into like oh no, are you okay? What's going on? How was your day? But I think once we get there, sometimes it's easy and tempting to just stay there and not go to God like first, and so we've been trying to spend the first at least like 30, 40 minutes like reading scripture and going through that, which has been really sweet, just even asking questions. What are some of the questions we've been doing?
Speaker 1:Well, actually Lauren is the one who first kind of brought back like. Lectio Divina, and like reading a short passage, a few times, pausing, and then like asking what we're noticing about God ourselves and what he's calling us to.
Speaker 3:Yeah, what do you notice? Why do you notice it? I don't remember the last one. Yeah, Ben's got him. I can't eat him.
Speaker 5:Yeah, I love it. And then we will go into kind of like catching up with each other and kind of like we've shared in this time. I think all of us have had some heavy things that have gone on this year and it's been such a needed and sweet space from God to like share with one another and like be able to carry each other's burden. So sometimes we've set timers because we will keep going forever and sometimes we don't, but we try and give each person space to say like, hey, what's going on in your life? And I think people will share, and then it's pretty quick that people are responding and caring and encouraging, which is just really sweet.
Speaker 2:And then, oh, sorry, well, and I was just thinking for those who, like, don't know each other really well right off the bat. I was really helped by those questions. What are you facing?
Speaker 3:How are you?
Speaker 2:feeling about it and how are you bringing that to the father? And what are you fearing? Oh, fearing, okay, all the Fs we love the alliteration. So facing feeling fearing and bringing it to the father. So I feel like that's a really great way of sharing in like a framework to open up with.
Speaker 5:I love that and I think even with our text that we have, that goes on throughout the week like we kind of know when we're struggling or like something big or something amazing happened. So it's quick to like ask like, oh, tell me what happened here or whatever, and then at the end we pray for one another and, yeah, pray for those that we like love and wanna know Christ, and yeah, and then we leave, yeah.
Speaker 2:And then we linger, we linger and we play the piano.
Speaker 5:Then we play the piano and sing, and we did dance a little bit last time.
Speaker 3:But once again those things are not required in order for you to do it in a circle.
Speaker 5:Sometimes it just happens. Once you become friends and are in a circle, you just start dancing, you just do it, love it, and carrot is a part of all of that too my cat, the carrot, the cat.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 5:I sound like a crazy cat lady.
Speaker 1:Okay, a little bit. Thanks, friends.
Speaker 3:That's so tacky Wow.
Speaker 1:Thank you guys for talking about our circle and listeners. We hope that this is helpful. We hope that it gives you a glimpse of what you can experience and have and create, and I was just thinking about Psalm 27 that we will experience the goodness of God in the land of the living, and how moving into a circle space is like trusting that we can experience the goodness of God here on this earth. And, yeah, like that's such a reason to risk being a part of this.
Speaker 4:So, yeah, that's cool. Yeah, thanks y'all.
Speaker 5:Thank you, thanks guys, thank you for coming out and showing us your home.