Bringing Jesus to Work

On Friday, God provided another super cool “God Thing” for me to focus on. Two of my girlfriends came to my classroom after school to help me hang posters, organize, collate, and file. First, even asking for help was a big deal, but what happened because of that is something only God could have orchestrated.

We were all busy working and chatting about both the important and the mundane. I kept thinking that my custodian was probably waiting for us to finish so she could come in and work. She popped her head in to check out what was going on and I told her it was fine if she came in to clean while we were working. She asked who my friends were and what we were doing. I told her that they came to help me get organized and that they were my accountability partners. She replied that accountability partners was a mouthful and said it was nice of them to come and help me. She cleaned up my desks and then left. Within seconds she was back saying, “Okay, you got me curious, I need to know what an accountability partner is.” I explained my take on what we did and then the girls added their input into exactly what it is we do together. As we talked, she came into the room and we all sat down on the top of the desks. She asked what church we went to and we told her LifePoint. She said that she goes there, thus creating an automatic connection. We talked about a lot of different things: her new marriage, biblical counseling, her take on women friends and how she did not like “hen parties” where women talk of nothing but meaningless comparisons. We talked about how God had brought the three of us together and that our accountability / friendship is based on being authentic and helping each other through life, that we don’t talk about other people or play the whole comparison game, and that we are each other’s support and truth tellers, even when it’s hard. She talked about how she might be interested in having women friends -- if it looked like that. We talked to her about ways she could get plugged into LifePoint. We shared our passion for helping each other and our passion for Jesus, as a relationship, not a religion. As she was leaving, I told her that she knew where I was and she was welcome to come and talk about anything, anytime. She sincerely thanked me and left. All of us were like, “Wow, that was awesome!” I could feel God in the midst of a public middle school classroom and I could see his hand in orchestrating the timing. We were supposed to meet at the park. I took a step of faith and asked my friends to come help me. God used that to touch one of his children. I am so blessed to have been a part of that.

Simply incredible. God orchestrated. Authentic moment.