Tuesday, January 4, 2011

"can i ask you a question?" "do you go to clemson?"

if there is one thing that i am absolutely sure of, it is this: God is so awesome, and He really does care about things i care about. one thing i absolutely love is meeting random people and finding something in common with them. sometimes it's a bit of a stretch, but today was absolutely one of the more fun times of meeting someone random. and God set it up for me, to plug a little fountain of joy into my morning.

first shameless plug: you absolutely must go to Passion 2012. it will most absolutely change your life. and you can meet people like tyler and anna, who are absolutely so kind and fun. a second thing i absolutely love is people watching, and if i can overhear a conversation, slap me silly, i'm having a great time. i overheard tyler today while waiting for our last session at Passion talking about his scarf, and it's absolutely awesome. but the story is more awesome.

so i gathered all the courage i needed, and this convo ensued:
Rebecca: "excuse me, can i ask you a question?"
Tyler: "do you go to clemson?"

WHOA! ok Jesus.

Rebecca: "dsajhoauebf avhau lfbadvaliudh jds!! yes!! how did you know??"
Tyler: "mutual friends...fca...blah blah..."
Rebecca: (tripping out, must keep cool) "gosh. where did you get that scarf?"

tyler got his scarf from his family group leader, who got it from kabul, which is absolutely unreal, because kabul is in afghanistan. tyler also just graduated from clemson and is moving to charleston to work for water missions international, which provides water and The Living Water to people who are absolutely dying for it. his friend, anna, goes to auburn and has that absolutely psychedelic scarf. her sister, katherine, goes to clemson and we have mutual friends. huh!

morals of the story:
1. shameless plug #2: go to Passion 2012.
2. meet people. especially when Jesus is leading you.
3. if you own neat things, give them to people, bc you might just get blogged about.
4. make much of Jesus.

this scarf i'm going to name سر چشمې which means "fountain" in pashto, the most common language in afghanistan. please refer to someone smarter than i for a pronunciation.

word of the day: absolute. what is absolute in your life besides the things that concern who God is and what He has done?