***I Missed the Bus***

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***I Missed the Bus***
Dec 28, 2008 at 11:46 AM
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This morning, God and my little one woke me up just in time to feed him and, quickly get out the door to the 8am service...this made possible, due to my husband having tweaked his schedule to keep the baby, so that I could weather the cold alone. :) After learning what time my bus would arrive, I found myself running, determined to make it, to not miss another Sunday. Half-way down the street, I realized my earring was gone and I'd left my bus pass upstairs. Phoning home and running, I found my husband waiting at the downstairs door, waving the pass. I started back towards the bus-stop, praying for "favor"...please don't let me miss the bus, I thought, gazing at the time on my phone. Out of breath, I was a few steps from my stop, when the bus came whizzing by. I wanted to cry. I was not happy. :) I called my husband, told him I'd missed the bus and asked what time the next one would be there. Knowing that it would be about 15-20 minutes, my husband told me I should return home and wait. Though I'd originally started back home, I felt that I should just wait...out in the cold, no less, though I didn't think it was terribly cold. Standing there, I could see someone approaching me from behind. He spoke, wished me a Happy New Year and asked where I was on my way to. After telling him I was going to church, he asked me to say a prayer for him, that he would make it into the New Year. I couldn't let that go. "What's your name," I asked him. "Kareem," he told me. After informing him that I definitely would say a prayer for him, I told him that I'd recently missed my bus, but that another one should be coming. To make a long story short, we ended up in a conversation, and I asked him did he know/believe in God. He said he did, but that he didn't believe he died on the cross. When asked why, he attempted to offer sound reasoning, which was really a misunderstanding in the way things went, but I understood his questioning. Something that God showed me as we spoke is that "Christians" can spend SO much time trying to drill someone on the word that we miss "ministering" to them through our testimony and our walk as a believer. I told him that I'd discovered that it was easier to tell someone why I believe, as opposed to trying to tell them why they should. After sharing my testimony and why my relationship with Jesus was so "personal," and seeing the look of astonishment on his face, I KNEW that I had struck a cord. I told him that I appreciated him questioning things, as opposed to simply going off of what others had told him. He was genuinely puzzled about some things, but I believe GOD made other things clear as we spoke. Then, in the midst of our conversation, he quickly hugged me, catching me off guard. I told him that he was going to get me in trouble. He wondered about "my boyfriend," before I announced that I had a husband. As if that wasn't awkward enough, my husband appeared, seemingly, out of nowhere. I thought, Oh my God, here I am trying to witness and my husband has probably seen that and is thinking something is amiss. Well, turns out, hubby didn't see that sudden hug and he knew not of what we were talking about, until I returned home and told him. I wanted to clear the air, just in case, knowing that my husband knows me better than that. I was so glad to have missed my bus. Even when praying for favor, God's favor and plan overrode mine. He knew that there would be someone passing by, looking for a store that, for some reason, had yet to open, though it normally would be from my experience. GOD KNEW that someone would require prayer and to meet a "Christian" who was "approachable" just as He was when he ministered to the masses. I believe that because of that conversation that I held in the early morning hours in the cold, God will continue to minister to this handsome young man that I cannot recall seeing in the couple of years that I have lived where I've lived. To that end, God has a plan that we will never tap into, until our will bows down to His. He knows and He cares for even the least of them to which some will never take the time to minister, witness, or encourage. I am SO glad to have missed my bus.

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Dec. 28, 2008 at 11:59 AM

Wow I love how God had you miss that bus....you were used by him my sister and you were the face of Jesus and he saw it in you. You were the bible he needed right at that time...you may never know what will happen to him and then maybe you will see him again as a faithful believer because of your love pour forth to him... the hug was one of pure love

Praising him

gloriaglows

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Dec. 28, 2008 at 12:00 PM

Oh Great Testimony Too!!!!!

gloriaglows

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Dec. 28, 2008 at 12:45 PM

Living in a rural community...riding a bus is pretty much a foreign concept...although I am familiar...I lived and grew up in Jacksonville, Fl...but it has been over 21 years since I have had to catch a bus...just another blessing in my life...that I have a car and can go on my schedule...I admire your determination and comittment to go to church...even when it means having to catch a bus in the cold...I know it must be frustrating when you miss a bus...but WOW! Your testimony demonstrates God's sovereignty...HE is in control...He did show you favor...you were given the opportunity to bear witness and be obedient...and you WERE...God will reward your faithfulness. Blessings!

mamadita

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Dec. 28, 2008 at 4:08 PM

I had the clear the pictuer of you running for the bus before i could respond lol. Thats wonderful how you can touch someones life in some of the simplest ways.