Peer Pressure

It's Sunday night and time for home group. Arriving at the Roach Ranch we're greeted with the usual friendly faces of our home group peeps. We have been with this group for 2 1/2 years now and they are truly family. We have been through so much together: broken ankles, kindney stones, open heart surgery, another broken ankle, more kidney stones, back surgery, mission trips to Brazil and Belieze, yard sales, moving, even more kidney stones, children going to college, the same ones moving back home, and much much more. This group will help you get intimate with God and challenge you to keep growing every day. They will pray with you, for you, over you, and around you. All I can say is that we were placed together for a reason and God has blessed us tremendously for committing to this family.

We're not starting a new study until February so the agenda was all about fellowship, eating, and updating everyone on the progress towards the Ponderosa. That's when it started, "So, how's the house coming?" Chris and I went through our laundry list of things we need to do like cleaning out the garage, straightening the closets, boxing up the extras that we don't really need, etc...you know, all those things you don't get to until you HAVE to do them. Well, needless to say this group was not letting it go with this. "So, what is the date the sign will go in the yard?" Of course we didn't have an answer for this. Then it came..."OK, we'll be at your house Saturday morning about 9:30 to start packing and put a sign in the yard!" Well alright then, here we go. Knowing this, I spent my day off Monday cleaning out and getting the playroom and the boys' room "on the market" ready. Ella's room is underway and the others will have to come this week. Saturday's focus is the garage. If it hasn't been used in the 2 years we've been here, we probably don't need it! Here we go, peer pressure at its best.

Although it's embarrassing to have others see those places in your house that you don't want anyone to see, our home group knows us and loves us anyway. Another reason we love our peeps more than I can describe. So bring it on, it's intervention time for the Dorough house. The sign goes up Saturday!!! It's amazing what peer pressure will do, but at least it's positive peer pressure.