Immense Joy from Small Encounters

As I have expressed several times throughout these journal pages, I am praying for trust and complete surrender to God's plan and timing in my life, which leads into my story:

The other day I decide randomly, after weeks of putting it off, that I should probably fall back into the routine of waxing my eyebrows. I walk into a salon I've never been to in my life and see one woman (besides the employees). This woman immediately asks me what my shirt says so I glance down and read it aloud,
"ASC, Texas A&M University."
She asks, "Does that stand for Aggie Sisters for Christ?"
"YES!" I exclaim.


As she begins to tell me of memories of her own experience in Aggieland and in ASC, we fall into a beautiful conversation about love, loss and trusting the Lord.

Without any knowledge of the occurrences in my recent life she tells me about how in college she thought she had it all figured out, I've thought that before. She tells of how she dated a man that wasn't equally yoked spiritually with her for 4 years until she worked up the strength to call things quits her junior year at A&M, though she felt convicted to do it long before then. God? Why is she telling me my own story? Sure, mine was only 2.5 years but it has been all I've known in Aggieland, I knew better. She said she spent the next year learning to trust God's timing in her life, a journey I have recently embellished myself in, and that her senior year, a week before graduation, she met a man and knew it was right. She married that man and God flipped their lives upside-down because they trusted His love and plan for them. HOPE! What a beautiful story for me to hear at this particular time and what a beautiful woman to tell it, someone that has been there, understands and lives the life I desire to have one day.Twenty years later, they are still married and have two children. She was so happy, she radiated of Jesus. I am so thankful to have met Bridget, an Aggie, a Christian, and a small glimpse of Jesus himself into the relevance of my current situation.


Thanks for the reassurance, Lord!

Find the joy in your life, even if it's in a simple conversation with a stranger, they may become a friend.