friday

friday was a good time, in the afternoon we had a 2-hour free worship session. i'm quite sure that a lot of the "kids" there received prophetic words from the L-rd. a few of them shared those but i think there were more that weren't shared. gradually the prophetic comes forth in these generations... friday night at midnight we had a sort of prophetic / intercessory drum circle session, this one not at all related to the YMJA activities. hanging out with adults! what a notion! that lasted 'til 3am. and... what is a drum circle if not a chance to get in hot water with security guards? though we had all the proper permissions and really nobody could hear us, one overzealous security guard came and threatened to take our instruments away around 1am. it was rather amusing because we knew there was no chance that would happen. all the more amusing, however, was the fact that while he was chewing us out for being "so loud," the loudest train ever came by and totally drowned out his voice. i have been going to this conference for 26 years and have been on that campus many other times. at no point, ever, did a train roll by campus this loudly. its horn was on full blast for at least a solid minute and it was nearly deafening. the poor security guard was completely inaudible. even so, we put our drums away, and continued for another hour and a half a capella. which was probably even better than if we had had the drums. friday night was also my big chance to stay up and hang out with melissa, my brother's girlfriend, who was at the conference all week but i barely saw her. so i went back to her hotel and we chatted 'til 5am.