March 6, 2010
Sarajevo Story 11
Sometimes I just need to slow down and welcome the interruptions…
A couple of months ago Jess and I bought a season pass for skiing. It was very affordable, and with the equipment we were able to borrow, it seemed like a great idea.
However, life just gets crazy sometimes…on top of that, the weather doesn’t always do what you want it to do. We kept finding ourselves going out of town, and the weekends we were in town, we were very tired or there was no snow (or we didn’t have a ride to the mountain). Also, we had to give our borrowed equipment back.
So, last weekend we decided to sell the ski pass. With the season coming close to an end and Bible School right around the corner, it seemed our most logical option (Bible School takes place in another town over the span of two weeks).
A couple of weeks ago, we started asking around to see if anyone would want to buy our pass that had hardly been used. Last weekend, one of my Bosnian friends sent me a text message saying he found someone that wanted to buy it. Well, I finally talked to my friend on the phone at close to 10pm that night, and he told me that the guy would meet me at 9 in the morning the next day at the supermarket by our apartment. Selfishly, the next day was the first FULL day off we had in awhile. I was looking forward to sleeping in and doing nothing. But, of course, I had to say okay.
The next morning I woke up five minutes before 9 and planned to go the supermarket, sell the pass, and go right back into the bed and sleep a little longer. Well, it didn’t happen that way. As soon as I met up with the guy, he asked if I had time for coffee. I couldn’t say no. I had met this guy a couple of times in our favorite coffee shop and knew that this could be a good opportunity even though my bed was calling my name. So, I said okay.
All of this just to say…this coffee time was a wide open door to share the Gospel with this guy. He told me a story about a ski injury he had last year. He had collided with another person and sustained a head injury. If he would have been hit a couple of inches from where he was injured, he would have died. He told me that he believes in God and thinks He had something to do with this. However, he then began to tell me about how all of us are energy and stuff like that. So, I told him that I believed in God too, and asked if I could share with him what I believed.
I don’t know if anything will come from that conversation, but I truly believe that God was in it and ordained it. I remembered that it seemed like Jesus was never in a hurry. He welcomed the interruptions that came at him. Sometimes we just need to slow down because we never know what could happen in an interaction with someone. We should all make ourselves available to be interrupted every once in awhile.
I love this story ..so like what Jesus would do
may every seed bring forth fruit ..Thank you for serving Him there ..you shall reap in His time 
connie from good old tyrone
Thanks for the story. That is so true, we do need to slow down and see where God can use us.
Hey guys, that has actually happened to me before.. when I only planned on meeting someone real quick (when I had other plans for myself there soon afterwards) and ended up having a really long conversation. So glad that the Lord is watching over you guys. We miss you!
Andrew & Tiffany