Posted by Dena on March 10, 2003, at 20:12:43
In reply to Re: Sweet Dena » Dena, posted by Miller on March 10, 2003, at 16:30:07
Hi (Jyl) Miller (I feel like I'm whispering your first name!)
Thanks so much for your prayers for me. It seems that God keeps sending people to me so that I can reach out to them & take a mini-vacation from focusing on myself.
I missed one opportunity though. I had met some women at a coffee shop last Friday. As we were getting ready to leave, an elderly woman entered the shop & approached us. She was lost & asked for directions to a doctor's office. I knew where the office was (it was my own doctor) & I tried to describe to her how to get there. I could tell, however, that she just wasn't getting it, & she kept saying she was so bad with directions. I had a still, small thought, "Let her follow you. Take her there." But I pushed that thought away, because I wanted to go into a loal store before heading home. I tried again to explain the directions to her, & then "handed her over" to another woman, & headed for the store. Well, the store was sold out of what I wanted, & I kept thinking about that woman. I drove past the coffee shop again, but she had left. I headed home in a different direction, trying to find a short cut. I found myself at a light, looking straight at the doctor's office that she had been trying to find! I knew that I knew that God had wanted me to put my own agenda aside & help that woman. I knew I'd missed an opportunity to be obedient & to bless someone else. I've even wondered if she was an angel in disguise...
Interesting about you thinking of becoming Catholic. I was raised Protestant, but have been learning about the roots of Christianity, & I've been studying the Catholic church, myself. I'll share a website that's been helpful to me: "catholicoutlook.com" I love what the Church Fathers have to say.
Gotta go -
Shalom, Dena
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