Sometimes, It's the Little Things.

God's super cool. Yes?

YES. There's no arguing that. At all. Ever.

Yesterday, God took something as super simple as pulling over to pray for a woman walking on the side of a freeway exit, and turned it into something incredibly encouraging. 

The story? Cool. Glad to share.

Jen and I went to coffee yesterday morning with some girls, to catch up and talk about how SO flipping cool Jesus is... We were on no time crunch. We just went with the flow of the morning. We sat and talked for about an hour before they had to leave. Then we headed home. As we're getting off the freeway, we see a woman walking alongside the exit ramp. Instantly our attention was drawn to her... Partially because she was wearing bright pink... But more so because it's not very often that we see people speed walking to get off the freeway.

We had seen her car on the shoulder a little ways back, and just felt like there had to be something we could do for this woman. We pulled over on the side of the road trying to figure out what we could do, what we could say, anyyything. So, we stopped, and simply began to pray that God would show us what to say or what to do. Cool God moment number one.

As soon as we finished praying, we began to look around for her... right as the Davis family pulls up in their Suburban right next to us. Impeccable timing. Moment number two. After explaining what we were doing randomly parked in the dirt on the side of the road, we hopped in their car and drove to where the lady had gone to call for help. 

As we approached her, she looked kind of hesitant to talk to us. I mean, I would too if a woman and two teenage girls started walking toward me smiling extremely largely... But that's okay. :) We asked her if she was okay, and explained that we noticed her on the side of the road, and felt the need to make sure she was okay and see if there was any way that we could help her. And seriously, moment number three was the smile across her face. She told us that she had run out of gas, and that she was waiting for her friend to come help her put gas in her car. 

As we stood there talking to her in the parking lot of this random Ripon restaurant, I couldn't help but notice the joy in this woman's life. Here she is in a super stressful, and irritating situation, and something as simple as a few girls asking her if she's okay, was enough to even more brighten her day. She was so excited to say how blessed she was to walk, to talk, to breathe, to live. This woman loved the Lord, she did, and it was SO cool how God took something like stopping to check on her to encourage her AND us. It was exciting. 

God is so faithful. From the beginning of the summer I have been praying that He would use me in Modesto. That He would work in and through me. That would He teach me how to be more like Him. And He continues to amaze me with the different circumstances in which He reveals Himself to me, the different people He uses to encourage me, the different people I have been able to encourage. This summer has been an incredible blessing and this woman was a perfect example of even the smallest things that God is doing through the summer that reveal His greatness to me and to those around me.