Random Encounters

"For I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord, "Plans to encourage not deceive.  Plans to give you a hope and a future." He's got the plans.  I don't know why we are so quick to run from them.

Have you ever had a moment and you knew you needed to stop because God was having His hand on the situation?  I seem to be having these more and more.  I don't know if this means I'm more spiritually in tune with Him or I'm just finally listening more to what He has to say.

I totally had one of these moments a little over a week ago with some friends down on the strip.  My friend was in town and brought his friends in town and of course that means we had to go to the strip and play tourist.  Except this time was different than all others.  It was calm and almost peaceful.  We sat a lot and talked about nothing and just enjoyed each others company.  As we were ending the night we all had to pee so we stopped at a bathroom and as we were all waiting for one another we ran into people from the school that they went to.  I had no idea why we were waiting outside a bathroom to try and flag down this couple, but my friend wanted to and I wasn't going to ignore it. 

It ended up being a really uplifting end to my night.  Now first off my friend goes to a pretty chill school.  It is HEAVILY God and Holy Spirit centered and pretty much amazing all around.  I have only met a few people from the school but I haven't met one that I didn't like yet, so I don't know why i thought this couple would be any different.  But they pretty much made my night complete.  I let my friend stand there and talk with them and somehow Australia was brought up, and YWAM and my trip, and what seems like everything that the four of us had connected to one another.  

It was a total reminder of the path that I'm on and how much I REALLY WANT to be on this path.  As we were walking away I told my friend I would love to be like them.  SOLID.  So solid, in a way that most aren't.  Turns out he's a surfer and she's amazing and I bet if we had the time we could have gotten lost in conversation for hours with them and it would have been amazing.  But it was a quick, probably not even 5 minute encounter with a couple I didn't know outside the bathroom in a busy Las Vegas casino. 

Pretty random if you ask me.  But if you ask Him, I'm sure He had it planned and totally blessed the end of an already pretty legit night.