I’ve learned to fully enjoy allowing the day to go by without having any expectations. It seems that on days that I’m able to honestly accomplish this feat that I get the most done that has been piled up and there is always a surprise event. Today I had two surprise events, one was getting the chance to have lunch with my husband. That is a rarity. The second was coming in contact with a young man that I’d ministered to a few years ago. I had become very close to his family and they had moved away so it’s been some time since I’ve heard from him.
After a few attempts over the years to get in touch with him via his siblings I figured he was busy living life and left it at that. However, today as I was on Facebook creating a new professional page (by the insistence of some colleagues) his picture popped up and he wanted to chat. I am never on Facebook long enough to chat that often so it took me by surprise, plus it was in the middle of the day. We went through the normal ‘chit chat’ and then he confided that he needed someone to talk to. Out of the blue it was as if I was talking to the young man I’d known so many years before only now the problems were bigger, deeper and more complicated. There were a few other ‘to do’ items on my list that I was looking forward to getting a handle on but I knew instantly that this was why God had given me this ‘free’ time and put me in front of the computer at that very moment.
In the end he asked about what had been going on in my life and I caught him up on all the drama, including the most recent emergency flight landing and ‘fatal disease’ false diagnosis. I commented that I had it all in my blog if he wanted to see pictures of the plane and he responded (paraphrased): “You have a blog? What is it with your generation? All of you have blogs…ha ha ha.” 🙁 This young ‘whipper snapper’ ( ha ha) is all of 22 years old and yet how glaringly obvious it is that we are of two complete different generations. 😉
Now I know for a fact that I have readers that are of the ‘younger generation’… should I say thank you for bearing with this blog? 😉 You know maybe ‘my generation’ is just more witty and hence we have a lot to say?
Regardless I’ll keep on writing!
Blessings
Shannon