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Last night was probably was of the neatest experiences I’ve had in a long time.

For many of weekends during the summer I can be found hanging around the Cutshall family at their cabin on Half Moon Lake in Wisconsin. It’s one of my favorite places in the world. They’ve treated me like family there, so it’s one of those spots on earth where you just feel like home.

The past few years Bob and Jeanne have hosted the Heart of the City band at the cabin for an afternoon of hanging out on the lake. Yesterday was that day. Jason and I arrived a little after lunch to a cabin packed with strangers. A lot of people up there is nothing unusual, but I’ve never seen so many people that I just didn’t know. Now me being me I didn’t really talk to many of them, but they all seemed to be just really cool. It sounded like they look forward to that day all year round and it was really cool to watch all of the smiles on everyone’s faces.

That night, after most of the food had been eaten and everyone who wanted to was waterlogged from the lake, we all sat around the campfire. Eventually Dan and his son had started playing their guitars and his wife Sandy her flute. They played some really beautiful acoustic music for about 20 minutes and then started singing some songs that I knew. Now maybe singing worship songs around a campfire is nothing new to a lot of people… but this was a good portion of the Heart of the City band! Needless to say it was just a really cool and really moving hour or so where these gifted musicians played and sang glory to God around a fire under a starry sky in one of the places that is like home to me. It was sweet.

Anyway, just a really really cool night on Half Moon.