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It's interesting... I've thought of this trip from my perspective, obviously, and seen all the answers to prayer--and God's hand in my late entry into the team--from my point of view. Today, though, we were talking and praying about the team, and about the trip, and the others were mentioning how they've felt like the team unity and the sense of one-ness has increased since I joined, and how there's so much less conflict and tension now. It's interesting.

But someone, I think it was either Dave or Sharla, mentioned that they'd known from the beginning that I was supposed to be part of the team, not Josh, and that they didn't know why God hadn't let me be a part of it. They commented then that they were starting to see it all fit together, like now they see exactly how much a part of the team I am, and how much they needed me to make the team complete--a couple of them used the term "the missing link."

I'm not trying to make myself sound all great, but I just thought it was a really interesting conversation, because we've all been seeing the same thing from different perspectives. I'm seeing it as, I needed to be broken and reach the bottom before God brought me back to the place where I could be a part of the team--both where I could appreciate it more, and where he could use me more, because more of my crap has been dealt with. For them, it seems to me that it's more the fact that they're realizing--and not taking for granted--the blessing of the team unity.

I don't know. I don't presume to know the mind of God, but I love how he works, and how he takes the exact same situation and uses it to affect so many people's lives, in so many ways.
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