chaos vs order

This week, I spent some time with people my age. The first group was a Christian meeting for university students, basically an on campus Bible study. The other one was a group of friends hanging out to celebrate a friends' birthday.
The first one was a perfect example of order, while the other one was kind of chaotic!
At the campus group, the room was 'set up' for the meeting to take place, then we followed a 'planned agenda' to bring everyone along some kind of spiritual conversation lines. There was an 'ice-breaker' activity, announcements, candy, we talked through a work sheet of scriptures that told us various aspects of discipleship, then prayed together and at the hour mark, left our separate ways. Everyone was very friendly, and welcoming, and it was a nice time.
At the birthday party, we all gathered at a restaurant, coming in our own vehicles, sharing a meal and conversation, and then hung out in front of the restaurant a little, then when getting to the cars, hung out a little while by the cars, too. We laughed together, ate together, froze together, and when we couldn't bear the cold any more, went home, many of us agreeing to get together the next day to do the same thing one more time. There were university students, grad students, a mother, some who work for a living, some who were unemployed (insert my name here!), some drinkers, some abstainers, some vegetarians, some vegans, some meat-lovers, some smokers, some ex-smokers, some chocolate lovers, some nacho sharers, some offering friends a drive home, another offering warm scarves while we shivered in the cold night air...good times, in chaos or in order, I will praise the Lord!