A God Ordained Meeting

The coolest thing happened to me yesterday!! I mean the most random but most exciting thing ever! I don't know how else to explain it then... GOD!!

I went to dinner before work with Whitney and her boyfriend Chris. I have not seen Chris since freshman year of college when Whitney and I lived together. So it was really fun to catch up with him and see them together. They have been together going on four years! So we are sitting at Cafe Plaid talking. asking questions about school and what not. Well Chris asks me about my Christmas trip. So I tell him a little about it, but get the idea that because he is an engineer like me he would appreciate hearing about RDI. Resource Development International has been working actively on water, sanitation, education, and community development projects since 2000 in countries all over the world. I heard about them while I was in Cambodia and just got really excited about the opportunities that could arise with working for them some day. A friend that lives in Cambodia full time was telling me that they take volunteer interns all the time and I could come out and work for them in the future. It was one of the most encouraging conversation just for the simple fact that RDI does exactly what I want to do in my future! Well as I am telling Chris about this a lady in the booth behind us turns around and starts telling me that her and her husband were just working with RDI over Christmas break in... get this... Cambodia. I almost peed my pants. I told her that I was just there over break too and we figured out that we were there at the exact same time. Now how stinking cool is that. Noralea told me that her and her husband work with Cru (another Christian ministry) here on the Norman campus She asked me my name and ended up friending me on facebook right then and there. She asked me if I would have time to get coffee sometime in the future and I jumped on that like no ones business haha. As I was leaving to head to work I got to meet her husband, Ryan who had come in earlier. I shared with them that I was environmental engr. and they really liked that lol and I told them that RDI is doing the exact thing that I want to do some day!!

It truly blows my mind at how God is continually working things out in my life. The day before this happened I had sent in my application to go back overseas over the summer and the next day I meet husband and wife who are doing what I want to do someday!! That is not some coincidence. God really is working and pointing me in a direction for life. I am so excited to get coffee with Noralea soon. This meeting was just the thing that I needed. It was a great reminder that God has a plan for me. I might not even know what I am doing this summer but I am trust that whatever it is, it will be exactly what God wants from me! I love the way Jesus works in our lives and just getting to see the connections made through Jesus is awesome. There is no other way to explain the randomness of meeting Noralea then to say it was Jesus that put us at Cafe Plaid in booths right next to each other at the same time. My mind is blown each time I think about it. How God works and how big He is!!!!!!!!!!!!!