photo katie lips wrote recently spending sunday morning beach church successfully dealt related guilt skipped church sunday morning spent eating pancakes sausage friends picnic table campground early summer getaways admit skipping sundays makes feel untethered luckily wednesday night church reconnect refocus jeff tisa's basement scrape wallpaper spare bedroom traditional church trick church minus special building gathered broke bread pizza seats table nourished powerful powerful bribed pizza physical labor sort off-topic pointed nourished basement directed combined knowledge muscle single shared goal ugly wallpaper worked shared what's lives shared prayer request relatives health problems silly expressions laughter joking teasing reveling safe place we've created singing hymns worship songs things pump volume long story renovate restore rebuild refresh long work walls clean refreshed wallpaper scraping suspect idea jesus gathered matthew love spite faults selfish tendencies jesus midst pizza eating wall scraping silly chatter conversation beautiful beach rough basement bunch believers tackle messy painstaking inch inch scraping longer wanted work prayer basement sanctuary prayer christian reaches time extends heart work includes hinder work promotes affirms lends meaning word work labor christian prayer life dietrich bonhoeffer 