I Can't Believe it Either

So I was having a very peaceful day at work thanks to my determination to just trust God when I got a text message toward the middle of the day which was sent out to several people at once asking who was available for a Bible study or babysitting. I wrote back with a sigh, "I can do it." I haven't made myself available for much of anything in a long time due to my health but I'm sick of standing on the sidelines. I dread babysitting so I was hoping to be in on the study.

Unfortunately, they had enough people for that so I was indeed assigned diaper duty. Well, I drove out to my friend's house (about fifteen minutes) and found parking then walked to her townhouse. She was finishing up a London broil she made for dinner. Soon, another person arrived, this one a mommy who had to leave her kids with her husband. We decided to eat because the person studying the Bible to restore herself to her former faith (she had been a Christian some time ago but had left) had not shown up and it didn't seem like she would. She has no phone to get a hold of her on so we just ate.

But lo and behold, after a while of sitting around eating steak with the caramelized cauliflower and jasmine rice, who should show up but our honored guest with her two kids (my charges for the night). She was really hungry so she joined us, then one more person came, whose birthday it was.

Well it turns out we didn't study the Bible because the kids were a little too wound up and could not be away from their mother. But the strange thing was that this person remembered me though I couldn't place her at all. When we were "introduced" last night she said, "I know Wendy. When I was in the teen ministry I used to admire her. I told my friends, 'When I grow up I'm going to be just like her.'" I almost choked on my food! I had no idea anybody ever felt that way about me, especially in the Teens. I felt I'd had such little impact on that ministry. Aw, chucks. That's so darn sweet!