God is Wierd

I'm not sure why I'm sharing this story with you but... here I go:

As I set out on my walk down Pac Highway to catch my bus late on Tuesday afternoon, I looked at my phone and realized I was a little behind schedule so I picked up the pace and realized that with a large duffel bag on my back this was a little more difficult than I realized.  So I started jogging and after a few minutes I was running down 240th like some kind of track star (at least I was in my mind...) oh, and don't forget the duffel bag.

And Lo! The bus pulls up, I'm still running and now sweating and watch the bus - in slow motion  - pull away.   After a few seconds of expletives and wiping off my sweaty brow, this african lady pulls out of the parking lot in this big clunker and offers me a ride.  I'm not really sure why I said yes because usually I'm pretty cautious about this kind of thing but alas - I got in the car. 

As she was driving me home, I found out that her name is Mary, she is from Kenya, she goes to an African church and she has good friends from the Congo and Rwanda!  Of course I told her briefly about my adventures to Africa and my greeting cards and she invited me to her church.  How wonderful and wierd is that?

Oh but the story gets better...

As I drop my stuff of at home getting ready to run to my massage I realize that I forgot my phone in her car!  Seriously???  For the love of God and all that is holy!

Thanks  be to this wierd God of ours, we exchanged phone numbers before we left!  I ran to the massage, used their phone to call her and arranged for a pick up.  Apparently she had called several of my family members to drop off the phone - ahhh, I can already here the lectures already. (thanks Casey)

Thanks to my wonderful neighbors who drove me to her house all the way in FW, I retrieved the phone. And both of us wholeheartedly agreed that God has his ways and for some reason we were destined to meet, if for no other reason, to remind us that his timing is perfect, His children know each other as siblings before and even if we have never met. ultimately, even if He is wierd, He's still God and He is so good!

BTW - the massage was totally worth it!