I spent the afternoon and evening with a close friend. We went to Cary to do some shopping and hang out. We had a great time.. and I managed to keep my wallet closed (for the most part). I didn't buy much, I kept a handle on the spending. As I went around the mall, I watched the various people and listened to my friend as we talked about life and school and work and the future. Talking about the future is fun, because both of us know that we can't plan too far in advance because God always seems to have other plans for us.
Well, we were on the way home and the music was playing. Whatever song was on happened to be about love. I was quiet and listening and realized that my friend had stopped talking. Without looking over at her, I said.. "What's wrong?" She looked at me and said.."how could you know? How did you realize that I needed you to ask me that?"
As we drove on, I began to give her one of my pep talks. She has really needed them these past few days as I have reminded her to be strong. As I was talking, she said to me... " You know I feel like the words you are saying is really God talking to me." I asked her why. She told me that she felt God was trying to talk to her and tell her to be strong in the situations she is facing and He knew that the only way she would listen was if I told her.
Hmm.. quite interesting. Well, as we drove on the car got silent again.. so I started singing. As we were almost home, she looked over and me and said, you know, you are one of the strongest women I have ever met. You set your mind to something and you do it. You give me these pep talks and encourage me to be strong. You are a wonderful example. As I thanked her she shared with me that her roommate felt the same way about me. I smiled to myself and was thankful to be viewed as a strong woman.
I haven't always been strong, but these days I am. I wonder why...
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" You know I feel like the words you are saying is really God talking to me."
We mentioned this in our Pastoral Care class...about how ministers represent the presence of God. One writer even hypenated it and said re-present God...in other words, every time we stop to talk to someone in a situation like that, it's a fresh presentation of God in that person's life.
I don't usually think of stuff like that...reminds me of the family guy quote I'm thinking about blogging about later. Anyway, it never ceases to amaze (or o'maze) me how God can (and does) take the stuff that we don't think about to teach us stuff about himself.
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