*I started this blog yesterday so
these were all things that happened on Monday morning. Had a busy afternoon and
never got to finish it. Please forgive me! *
Ok so I know I already blogged once today but
some days God is just so funny that it calls for more then one. Now I’m warning
you that I’m a little off the walls right now so if this doesn’t make sense
right away just promise me that you’ll continue pushing through to find little
nuggies. My day is so so so full of them so far and it’s still technically
morning!
So first things first, I got a grand
total of 4 hours of sleep by the time by alarm went off at 5:30 this morning. I
get to work and I’m jammin out in here while I’m brewing the morning coffee and
before I know it it’s a full on praise break in here. Now we open at 7 but I
look over while jumping around like a crazy person (because lets face it, I am)
at 6:45 and there is a woman at the door so I let her in and she was laughing
and told me that I’m very chipper this morning. So I just start telling her
about how great my God is. How He’s my healer and my provider and how I’m just
so completely in love with Him and we end up praying together and she buys her
coffee and leaves. All before we’re technically even open. Gonna be a great
day, right?
Maybe half an hour later another man
walks in and tells me that I’m looking awful happy for it to be a Monday and
that I have a very Friday attitude to me. I’ll take that man!
Right after he left another lady came
in. This one is a regular. Her names Sarah (large soy chai). Were having our
usual morning banter and she stops and I’m thinking “oh shoot. I guess were
done for the day?” I look over and she says “dude you’re going to India?” so of
course I just start blabbering about our trip and how excited I am about it.
And she goes to leave and calls ME a hero for wanting to do something like
this. I’m not the hero Sarah, that would be my God. I just follow Him wherever
He goes. He needs me to be his hands and feet. She looks at me like I’m
slightly crazy and I can’t really blame her at this point. See ya tomorrow
Sarah!
Anyone that’s ever asked me about my
day has probably heard me talk about Linda. She’s one of my favorite people.
She isn’t a believer (YET) but she’s so great and you will all love her. She
drops money in my India jar everyday but never really says much about it
because she’s rushing to get to work, but today, today was different. She asked
if she could go with me and I jokingly told her that of course she could. She
then told me that she’s always wanted to do something like that. And that ever
since she was little she’s had such a heart for orphans but because she knew
there was no money in it she chose to go into real estate instead. And now she
thinks that her time has passed her by and she can never do anything
differently. So she said she was just going so support me and then live
vicariously through me. Now Linda, don’t get me wrong because I love your
support and of course you can live through me BUT you have all the same ability
to go out and do this too. Age should never keep you from doing something the
Lord has placed on your heart. So she leaves in a hurry as always and I’m left
here just thinking and praying for her. Two hours pass and the shop phone
rings, I know that it’s going to be one of three people, my boss, a
telemarketer calling for my boss or Linda but Linda only calls in the morning
and she wouldn’t need to call twice in a day would she? Wrong. Guess who it
was? She needed some more coffee and was on her way back up here. This time
when she came in I actually told her all of the things that I mentioned earlier
and got this funny look on her face and got a little teary eyed. I asked her if
I could pray for her, she said no because she was in a hurry but that I could pray
for her after she left. Now that may not have been exactly what I wanted to
hear but it was definitely a HUGE step. I’ll take it Jesus!
Ok so in between Linda visits yesterday
I had another regular customer come in. He’s a younger guy and he is always
very nice so when he asked me how my weekend was as usual I excitingly told him
that it was great and I got a lot of much needed rest. He asked if I went to
church for Easter and I told him that I did and asked if he did too. He told me
that he didn’t and that he doesn’t really ever go because he works so late on
Saturday nights and likes to sleep in. I told him that I understood needing to
get some rest but that if he ever got a Saturday off then he should come to our
church sometime because it’s really great. He said he was shocked that I didn’t
look down on him or start preaching about how important going to church was,
and said that he’d think about coming sometime. I’ll take it! However it got me
thinking, how many times have people been on the verge of coming to church
possibly for the first time or maybe the first time in a long time and somebody
said something to them that turned them off to the whole idea? We as believers
need to remember that we first and foremost need to love them. Just because they
aren’t looking the same direction as we are doesn’t mean they aren’t deserving
of it. Remember that we were all there once.
As I mentioned before I had a crazy
afternoon and didn’t have time to finish this post yesterday well a big part of
that is due to a wreck I witnessed in front of the shop. I was the first to
see/hear it so I instinctively grabbed my phone and started calling 911 as I
ran out to check on the drivers. One was out and walking around but had a
pretty bad cut on his head and the woman in the smaller car was stuck in it and
had a lot of blood basically everywhere. I couldn’t get the door open and with
all that blood I wasn’t sure if moving her at all would be the best idea, so I
just stood there talking to her trying to figure out what was wrong.
Unfortunately I didn’t get much more then her name out of her before she lost
consciousness but thankfully the paramedics were pulling up to take over. They
ended up taking both drivers to the hospital and I don’t know that I’ll ever
hear from anyone to know how things turned out but if you can join me in
praying for Rachel and the man in the truck (didn’t catch his name) that would
be fantastic!
Well this is officially the longest
blog post of mine to date. I’m sorry that I ramble a lot but really I’m not
sorry at all because it was all things that I wanted to share with you. I hope
you found at least one little nuggie in there somewhere and I hope that you
make your Tuesday a great one!
As always if you’d like to support me financially
on my trip to India you can do so easily here, if you would like for your
donation to be tax deductible then you can also mail a check to our church
office:
Cornerstone Summit Church
869 Highway 105 Ext Suite
3
Boone NC 28607
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