Welcome to my head for just a moment...

Ok...I need to share something with all of you. I'm going to invite you into my head for a moment. Now...just to let you know it's not always safe here. So, hang on to all your belongings. Ok...here it is. The other night I went out to dinner with my husband, we had a bit of a wait. There was a whole lot of people waiting to get a seat. Now as we got called for our seat a thought went thru my head. What if we invited someone that was waiting for a seat? Someone we don't know. Complete stranger. We invited them to share a table with us. What would this look like? I shared this thought with my husband and of course he was all for it but I said No! people will think it's weird. So, this fear came into me. The fear of rejection...so I sit in this restraunt looking around and thinking...now here comes the weird part, so, hang on to your belongings. What if something horrible happened...like a bomb went off or a hostage sitution happened. What kind of relationships would form, who would you met from across the room. Someone who you didn't even take a second look at when you walked in. You would suddenly become connected with them and share this unbelievable experience with them. Now...what if we could do that with people we met all day long. How much better would our lives be? How much better would the world be? I know for me, I am afraid to step outside of my social circle. I'm afraid of the rejection I might get. I have to tell ya that this is something I have been working on. I'm working on this and when I go to the "food for thoughts" and help out there... something amazing happens. I step out of my comfort zone and meet these incredible people. I feel my heart growing and words just can not express the changes that are coming over me. Last night, I went to New Community to watch a guy I never met get baptized because one of the people I met told me this incredible story and it just touched my heart. I went and watched this man whom was homeless 6 months ago, had losted everything and hit rock bottom. Now, come up and give himself to Jesus. I felt this over whelming feeling spread thru my body and tears of pure joy come across me. Everyone watching this felt the same. Now, how can this be anything but God's work? I could feel God in the room and this connection with someone whom I never met before. Why can't we connect with people like this every day? What is so important in our every day schedules that we can't take a moment or two and connect with someone? I know what it is...it's pure selfishness. I do it everyday. I think it's all about me. While in the back of my head, I know it's not. I know this is something I will be working on until the day I die but everyday I do work on trying to make a connection with people. I know it's making me grow into a person that pleases God and in the end that is what it's all about. Take a look at Bob getting baptized last night.