God is funny...

I have pushed the rewind button to tell you about last Sunday. Then I will fast forward a little to Wed and well... enjoy the show.

Sunday January 20th, I saw a fellow AWANA leader at church and she was signing up for the Women of Waterstone Retreat at Glen Eyrie with Maggie B... (Tee hee. I am still so excited about that one!). So "K" was signing up at the table and I thought, wow how great! She is coming.

Now I don't know "K" from any other letter in the alphabet in my church. Just that she is in AWANA with me.

Then I saw her again and she was standing alone and I thought, Oh! Is she knew here? If so, wow she got involved quick. Then I felt the stirring of the Lord to go and talk to her.

You know, I hear what God tells me... and usually act on it. But sometimes not quickly. So I told God... Wednesday. I will talk to her on Wednesday.

So AWANA came and I saw her.. and my heart started to race. Why on earth am I getting so nervous?!? I mean we both have a heart for kids obviously, we are in AWANA!

"Hi, I don't think we have properly met..." I begin and we introduced ourselves... and instead of furthering the conversation... it ended. Probably my fault. But I still felt that stirring in my spirit to ask about the WOW retreat and see if she knew anyone who was going.

But I disobeyed God and didn't. I let my emotions get in the way... or my pride... or just you know... Heather. I let Heather get in the way of God.

So, when we left church Wed night I told Jake I was a failure and that I didn't get much more then "Hi I am Heather, Pleased to meet you, K." Into a conversation... and I tried to tell myself that I would just see her at the conference and everything would be just fine. I would approach her then and things would just be "fine".

God is soooo funny. Or rather, he likes to make us step from our comfort zones... which I really think he thinks is funny when we start to sweat. No really... Funny in a "best friend" kinda funny way.

Well, Now we are to this morning. A friend of mine (Homeschooled friend) is visiting our church and so I was a bit pre-occupied with finding her and getting everyone to their classes. I thought about "K" a couple times but really tried to stay focused on the visitors to the church.

Funny, Funny, God.

After Sunday School we headed to service and began worship, like we always do--but out of the corner of my eye I see "K". She was in a beautiful red sweater but something looked amiss.

"Well, I am just going to go GREET her when it's that point in service." I thought to myself.

Continuing to sing I glanced a few times at "K" who looked as though she was wiping her face... from evidence of tears.

My heart began to race, could this be why God was asking me to obey him and reach out to her a week ago?!?!

I leaned over to my new friend and said, "I hope you don't think I am rude, but I need to go HUG someone when we get to greeting time."

And so, when greeting time happened I left my seat and headed over to where "K" stood. I was intercepted by her husband who shook my hand and then I reached my arms around "K" and I said, "God wanted me to give you a hug and tell you he loves you."

Well, this must have been just what needed to happen because she started crying a little more and I said to her, "Do you want to go pray with me?"

WARNING!!!! TOTALLY OUT OF MY COMFORT ZONE!!

But she said YES and we headed to the prayer room at the back of the church. Praise GOD for this room!

I won't tell you what was so heavily burdening this beautiful mom's heart, but she was upset. She shared with me a few things and I shared with her a few from my life. And we cried... and we prayed.

Then I explained to her that LAST week God told me to talk to her and I didn't... then Wed I tried... and so on. She laughed and told me that she didn't know ANYONE that was going to WOW retreat and she was glad to know someone going.

So... if you ever doubt... God KNOWS what he is doing... and you should obey. ;)

In any event... Please pray for "K" and the situation she is going through. It's a big one... and she could use ALL the prayers she can get!