Interesting Encounters

I thought I was running out to eat a quick lunch today. I had brought along a book I needed to read a chapter of but decided in the parking lot to put it back in my car, eat quickly and read back in the office instead of at lunch.

I ate fast food.

I didn't leave the establishment for over an hour.

It so happens that someone I vaguely recognized and knew largely only through other acquaintances recognized me and struck up a conversation.

The story of his life over the last 2 years is both excited and heartbreaking and I was blessed to have heard it over an hour long lunch conversation.

I was glad I had left my book in the car, glad for the random encounter at lunch, and blessed beyond belief by the honor of hearing how God was working in another man's life.

I wouldn't complain if every lunch was so worthwhile for me.