This Life is Temporary

Over the past couple weeks I’ve been house/dog sitting for a friend. Oh boy, crazy first couple days. I was 3/4 certain that the dog was going to kill me for a while. I’m talking ears back, teeth exposed, barking and growling in ten minute cycles, etc. He was pissed for the first few hours, then just straight up angry for the rest of those first days.

I had to balance the dog’s set schedule around  my work schedule, fun times. Sometimes the dog and I could hang out all morning, sometimes he wouldn’t see me for a ten hour stretch.

On top of that, life while house sitting has been pretty good. I’m on a borrowed pc with no downloading/viewing Gb limitations, and I get a dog sucking up to me as I type. 

Recently I noticed something different going on.  Well first off I’m a Christian, and thats important to this story.

Normally during the university school year I’ll hang out with my non-believing friends.  After the year ends in April, I work for the entirety of the summer. During this time I get quite bored and even kinda depressed.  I found myself dreading the end of this particular school year, and not simply due to exams. 

I was at church one sunday morning in early May and out of nowhere one of my [few] christian friends from school walks up to me.  Now I hadn’t seen her since highschool and it was great to finally see her again.  Turns out she had spent the last two years in Europe with a Christian Missions group.  Not only that, but her family had just happened to decide to go to my church on that Sunday

The whole point here is that the one year that I decided that I was going to hang out with people from school during the summer regardless of the spiritual backlash; a christian friend is dropped into my lap. 

The best part, I can’t find any compatibility issues. No awkward silences in conversation, no need for something interesting to be happening while we’re together, it’s great.

Having a Christian included in my social life also helps keep me on the right page

As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another.  Proverbs 27:17

So the funny part is that I was wondering about what God has done for me lately, and immediately this friend popped into my mind.  The shear level of coincidence -  between me not working that weekend, her family deciding to go to my church that sunday, my dreading over the summer, and the latest slump in my spiritual life - was too high not to have been guided

This is mostly going to be a flickr/blog piece for anyone who is interested in following. There may be the odd drop about where on the globe this pc is based and how my world is going, but other than that don’t expect too much as this is my first, and probably last, blog.