God has other plans..

Posted by GregQualls

February 24, 2008

Isn’t amazing how God works things out sometimes. I’m not necessarily a chatty person when I’m flying. I know there are some of you out there who look forward to taking flights just so you can talk to your seat mate. I’m not that person. I like to read or better yet sleep. So I wasn’t looking for someone to chat with on the plane today. But God has other plans.

After shoving my bag into the overhead storage I took my seat by the window. My seat mate commented about how he ripped his bags on his way to Africa a few months ago and had to duct tape them back together for the rest of the trip. Now you chatty types would see this as an opportunity to hop into a wonderful conversation about Africa and his trip. I don’t do that…I smile, nod, and say, “That had to suck.” I figure this is sympathetic, but keeps me from having to talk anymore.

But God has other plans. A few minutes later, my seat mate asks if I’m originally from Seattle. I told no that I live in Albuquerque and that I’m going to a conference in Seattle. He asked what conference. Now honestly I was thinking about lying and saying I was going to some UPS conference or something…but I decided to say that I was going to the Resurgence conference. At this point he told me he was going to the same one.

After talking about the conference a little, he started telling me about his ministry. He is part of a record label called Reach Records and a ministry called ReachLife. And for the next hour he showed me videos and had me listen to audio that his ministry has produced. I must say they are really using their culture to present the gospel in a way that people understand. You need to check them out at http://www.reachlife.org/. Pretty awesome stuff.

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