"It's a small world after all..."

It's amazing how new people pop into my life. A handful of my friends I have made, I had an unseen connection with before I ever met them (ie. people who have a connection with other people i know). For example, I met Nina freshman year of college and her father met a woman who went to my church and we shared a campsite at creation before God had us be roommates. Then she was paired up as roommates with a girl I that I knew from brownies (girl scouts). That is my favorite story. There are others, like how I randomly met Dave, who was connected with Marc; and Dan who had a connection with an ex girlfriend of Dave and I'm sure there are others that would come to mind if I thought about it long and hard enough.

God never ceases to amaze me. Today it happened again. I made a new friend that just so happens to Melinda's boyfriend's roommate! I also find it interesting that on top of that we also have other random things in common, like the fact that he drives a white Mercury Tracer that looks identical to the one that I used to have, and he is left-handed too. Obviously, most importantly he is a Christian.

Tonight, the Bridge had a good message that as Christians we should practice self-sacrificial love and how hard it is to do. It's paiful, messy and lonely. I was able to reflect on times in my life that I had to love people who deeply hurt me and how it was awfully hard to do so at the time but the reward from doing it was awesome. It was a really good service.

Afterward Nina and I went to Max and Erma's and had a really good talk, or so I hope. Now we are watching a movie. Today was an eventful day...a good day.