To go, or not to go?
For reasons unknown, I woke up crying not sure if I should I go to church.as I would be missing Spruce Hill Community Church (the Cowboy Church). The sermon last week was clearly God speaking through Pastor Boyd to me. As I'm writing this I realize that I was totally putting limits on God-- thinking that He couldn't speak to me through Pastor Eric’s Sermon in the same way He did through Pastor Boyd's sermon last week- silly me. At one point last week, Pastor Boyd was talking about how one may be suffering and the reason are not immediately obvious. This week Pastor Eric mentioned how Faith disregards apparent impossibilities. He also mentioned how God uses the weak and the foolish to confound the wise. All of this hit home in more than one way. This all supported by scripture and examples were given in the sermon (which is posted below for your listening pleasure). After the service I realized that I sat right behind a beautiful friend that I have not seen in a very long time. This made me extremely excited and this was only the beginning of the end.
I have been rather sad that the Steve Sprenger, the former missions Pastor had moved to Uganda and I had not yet met the new Missions Pastor. I finished speaking with the pastor and was headed back to my chair to make sure I picked up the huge mess I created by looking for pens during service. I cleaned up and found there were a couple think that I had left on the ground. After picking them up I was greeted by Dan, the new Missions Pastor. Little did I know that my day would be full of more excitement and the sermon’s relevance was only beginning. Homeward bound , I arrived at the bus stop realizing I missed the last bus and had an hour to wait. At this time I was hungry but remembered I had food at my house that needed to be eaten.
I started dictating the morning’s events into my phone with no regard for the person who was also at the stop waiting. The man overheard me dictating into my cell phone about the sermon and mentioned that he was also leaving from the RMC’s service. We chatted a bit about the sermon and mentioned that Mark 3 is a very powerful chapter. Finally arriving at Starbucks to get tea for tomorrow, I begin dictating into my phone heard a bartista say “Bonnie.” Indeed it was my beautiful friend Bonnie and we had a few minutes to talk. It was only after those few minutes that Bob1 arrived. but he explained that he can only stay for a few minutes because he was going to see the Philharmonic. After Bob 1 left I remembered that I had valuable coupons that expired today! I needed to go across the street from where I had just came from.
I remembered these few errands that needed to be run so I took off. The ladies at Q-doba were so fun to chat with and the lady who was Mexican was incredibly patient (the Church crowd must have already been through). I now had great food for work tomorrow and needed to quickly grab a pair of good walking shoes for work. Again I met a fabulous young lady who helped me pick out shoes. I was very indecisive about this because I actually do walk at work-- outside of work I spend the majority of time getting around town in my hot rod (electric wheelchair). After purchasing an item from my two-item list, I was headed home.
Crossing the last major street to get home I saw a man in a manual chair who looked very tired. I asked if I could help him and he asked if he could grab my chair and have me pull him up the hill on Union. We began talking when a couple stopped by and said, “We want you to eat with us, is Chipotle okay? “ How do you tell a whole family that they can’t bless you? So Mo (a person I met on the bus 3 years ago) and I headed to Chipotle. After the young (3rd grade) bilingual boy prayed in Spanish over the food, the parents explained how they were blessed and were looking for ways to bless others. Although the father and son knew English, the mother explained that her English was weak. We talked about God, Church, California, and theme parks. This was such an incredible day! Praise God for protecting and providing….Yes Yram, I saved plenty of room for the amazing soup left at my house. Oh and on my way across the street I ran into my niece! I am so ready for this week, weekends are too full….wait, that was only today. And I wondered if I should go to Church?!?
