Kimmie!

I was slowly making my way through the crowd gathered between first and second service.
About 400 leave the first service, to be immediately followed by roughly 500 attempting to enter the sanctuary!
So quite a swirl of people.
I just wiggle my way along.
No one talks to me, ever.

But one lady blocked my way.
She wanted to talk.
Too weird!
She is the mother of four of my students from long ago.
So, the most fearful creature know to any youth worker - A PARENT!
Turns out nothing was on her mind, she just wanted to talk.
As I said before, too weird!

But as I redirected my attention to once again getting into the church, I was blocked again!
I looked up into the most beautiful set of eyes.
Refocusing, I just could not place the face.
Then, she said, "Kris!".
And instantly I knew it was Missionary Girl.
Long gone from these pages, she had last been mentioned here, at her marriage.
Thing have gone well across the years for her.
And now she is pregnant!

So hard watching the fleeting manner of time.
Only yesterday she was a high schooler asking me about doing missions work.
And later harder questions about marriage and life.
Nothing like life coaching via the internet!
And someone you really do not know.

But it was so good to see her again.
Unless triggered, my vacuous mind remembers nothing on its own.
So, it was a delight to regain some pleasant memories, as well as, delight in her happiness!

It is good if you want to remember her in prayer.
February is her due date.

And I write this sitting in the surgical waiting room, as GG has her right knee replaced.
So MUCH prayer needed there, as well!