Random but still awesome.

I don’t know if I really explained my new job before but I’m currently working a side job doing security at this little Christian school near my house. I usually only work on saturday but lately I’ve been called in to get extra hours once or twice on the weekdays. On top of my duties as security I attend most of the home sporting events as game manager (aka dude that has to deal with anything that goes wrong at a high school sporting event. use your imagination.) Well tonight I’m working the saturday shift which is usually quiet at night because I stay until 10 and most everything is done by 7 or 8. tonight was different though. There is a play going on in the gym, Beauty and the beast. I watched the first dress rehersal and its amazing what these kids are doing. but thats not what I’m writing about tonight. Two parent volunteers were working in the front with me taking tickets and whatnot for the play. they both ended up striking up conversation with me and really wanted to hear about my background, where I went to school and the typical things other mothers tend to ask guys my age. but then the conversation continued into my testimony and where I went to church and who my parents where.

These two ladies wanted to hear my entire life story.

They had also just met me 10 min before.

They wanted to know all of that not only because I was around their kids working at the school but because I believe they genuinely showed that they cared about me. because I work at this school I’m “part of the family” and its only been 1 month. since I started.

I used to knock christian schools and how they were just public schools that cost money and prayed in class. I see now how wrong I was. These ladies asked me if I ever needed anything to just ask. They were showing the love of Jesus to a grad student that they didn’t know from adam’s house cat. and it was awesome.

I was blessed by a couple of ladies who took the time to get to know me. and this brought up a question in my head after we were done talking.

Do I take the time to really get to know someone on a regular basis. maybe its the new kid at school who seems like he needs a friend or a guy at work that doesn’t exactly hang out with the in crowd. Or maybe its a guy/girl in your dorm that you haven’t met or gotten to know. Trust me if you take the time to get to know them you never know what God might bring up.

I think we get too involved sometimes in a certain group of people/click and we never end up meeting new people and we miss out on what those new people might bring to the table. so take the time to get to know someone you don’t know this week. you never know what you might discover.

Sincerely,

me

 

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