A God Moment

I was going to have a totally different topic as my next blog but I had to write about the God moment that occurred this morning.

Before I left home this morning for some reason I took a few dollars in coins from the coin bucket to buy a drink. I don’t know why because I don’t drink sodas and very rarely use a vending machine. But nevertheless I put the change in my pocket book.

When I was coming up to our store a young teen on a bicycle approached me asking if I had any change to buy something to drink. He wanted to buy an Arizona Tea. I knew then why I grabbed the coins. It wasn’t for me. It was for him. I told him that I had just grabbed some coins this morning from our change bucket and would give them to him.

But I couldn’t leave it at that. I had to find out why this polite, young teen wasn’t in school. So I started to ask him some questions. It turns out that this is only his third time skipping. I had to make sure he wasn’t skipping because he was being bullied. That’s not why he’s skipping. It’s because school is borrr-ing.

I asked him what he wanted to do with his life – graduate and get a job. I asked him some questions: “How?” “How can you do that if you skip school?” “Do you want to end up homeless and living in the woods because you don’t have a job?” He doesn’t want a life like that.

I talked to him about how it seems like it’s going to be a long time before he reaches adulthood. I understood because I was once in 7th grade. But here I am nearly 65 and the years have flown by fast. The years are going to fly by fast for him too. So make use of them.

I encouraged him to buy his soft drink, then go to school and also find a teacher that he could talk to.

I told him that I would pray for him. I have prayed for him and will continue to pray.

It wasn’t by happenstance that we met. It was a God moment.