The Journey...

Grant and I headed out this morning early to south Dublin to meet up with some of our teammates living in Ballycullen. It took us 90 minutes to go 20 miles. Welcome to the M50 motorway. Anyway, the plan was to head to Tim's connecting point for the most delicious breakfast rolls ever, according to Tim. This connecting point was a little place tucked away in a small plaza of shops called The Old Bread Shop just minutes from where Tim and his family live.

Once we arrived, the entire place had seating for maybe twenty and our crew took up 1/4th of it. It was a guys only morning filled with breakfast rolls, doughnuts, muffins, coffee, and hot chocolate. While eating and feeling our cholesterol dance, the line was never empty. The people just kept coming in to the Old Bread Shop. This is truly a local favorite among the Irish. Tim has found a goldmine in food and an amazing place to build friendships. It was cool to experience what he's been telling me about for some time.

It was in the Old Bread Shop where Tim got chatting with a guy and has since had spiritual conversations, and is planning to have this friend over for dinner with the family at some point. This has all been done with intentionality from the start, much like my frequenting Insomnia in Clontarf. Sometimes I think we've lost intentionality in much of our living out loud for Christ.

Anyway, I thought you might find it interesting to see how God's moving in the south part of our town with some of our friends and teammates whom we love and appreciate so very much.