Proof Positive, Part 2
I wasn't sure exactly what to call this little update.
I had it down to either More Proof that my Friends are the Coolest People in the World or Further Proof that God has Always Known Exactly What He's Doing.
Now, I have lots of really good friends here at Union, the type that I could trust with any number of things and generally count upon to have fun with in any setting. I love them all, and they're really great.
There's also a special class of them that I've really come to value, especially since coming back from Spring Break. And, much as this may disappoint the roommate who's always laughing at me for having a bunch of friends who are girls (really and truly, if you called me a "pimp" in front of any of them, they'd laugh out loud at you), I'm thinking specifically of the Jonathan-and-David-type friendship. There are three guys, specifically, in this year's freshman class, who are feel-good-about-loaning-each-other-stuff, student-film-story-swapping, singing-out-loud-to-stave-off-the-quiet-at-work great friends.
I love Union not only for giving me so many great friends in the first place, but for giving me such high-quality friends.
Now, here's the interesting thing. One of the guys I would consider among these great friends, David Kartzinel, was talking to me after church today - we ended up going to the same church almost at random (Ben Bailey invited me the night before, and David caught a ride with a friend of his I only formally met today after his ride to another church didn't show up) - and I mentioned what I had put in my last blog post, about thinking I should be a European correspondent.
His response: "Stop it. You're scaring me."
Here's the thing. David's been interested in the ministry for a long time, and in the idea of leading a church. I had mentioned before that I would have to make a habit of coming to his church, and he liked that idea. But, as it turns out, about the same time the job of those reporters in Rome started appealing to me, David began feeling a call to mission work and had the idea of leading a church in Europe.
Not only that, he met a man today at church who works in Great Britain for a missions organization, working with European churches.
Finding affirmation in a friend's calling... isn't God's plan amazing?
I had it down to either More Proof that my Friends are the Coolest People in the World or Further Proof that God has Always Known Exactly What He's Doing.
Now, I have lots of really good friends here at Union, the type that I could trust with any number of things and generally count upon to have fun with in any setting. I love them all, and they're really great.
There's also a special class of them that I've really come to value, especially since coming back from Spring Break. And, much as this may disappoint the roommate who's always laughing at me for having a bunch of friends who are girls (really and truly, if you called me a "pimp" in front of any of them, they'd laugh out loud at you), I'm thinking specifically of the Jonathan-and-David-type friendship. There are three guys, specifically, in this year's freshman class, who are feel-good-about-loaning-each-other-stuff, student-film-story-swapping, singing-out-loud-to-stave-off-the-quiet-at-work great friends.
I love Union not only for giving me so many great friends in the first place, but for giving me such high-quality friends.
Now, here's the interesting thing. One of the guys I would consider among these great friends, David Kartzinel, was talking to me after church today - we ended up going to the same church almost at random (Ben Bailey invited me the night before, and David caught a ride with a friend of his I only formally met today after his ride to another church didn't show up) - and I mentioned what I had put in my last blog post, about thinking I should be a European correspondent.
His response: "Stop it. You're scaring me."
Here's the thing. David's been interested in the ministry for a long time, and in the idea of leading a church. I had mentioned before that I would have to make a habit of coming to his church, and he liked that idea. But, as it turns out, about the same time the job of those reporters in Rome started appealing to me, David began feeling a call to mission work and had the idea of leading a church in Europe.
Not only that, he met a man today at church who works in Great Britain for a missions organization, working with European churches.
Finding affirmation in a friend's calling... isn't God's plan amazing?
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