Connected

He had two earrings, drove a pickup and met me in the parking lot of his church. Steve had an infectious smile and an engaging personality. "I just had to stop and see what you were up to." I filled him in on the walk for Christ and gave him a Zacchaeus DVD. A few minutes later, we parted and that I thought would be the last I saw of Steve.

A hour or two passed and a reporter stopped for an interview. Lucy had pulled up across the street and so we moved to the other side of the road so she could interview both of us. Just as we got to RV, Steve pulled up with his wife Deborah who he got up out of bed to come meet us and a he brought us a beautifully carved walking stick made of hickory. As it turned out, when the article appeared in the morning paper, Zacchaeus, Steve and his stick made the front page under the headline "Walking for Christ!" Deborah made the paper too, but she blinked so the photograph shows her with her eyes closed. Lucy and I laughed at all the grief she was going to get from her "friends."

A few days later, we were in a campground in Quitman, MS and a gentleman, named Kyle, who had seen the article approached us. He was a co-worker of Steve's....what are the odds? He invited us to have dinner with his family and we had a wonderful night of good food and laughter.

Isn't it interesting to see how we are all inter-connected. Everyone affects everything...at least a little. So the decision we have to make is to do our best to appreciate each others contribution and enjoy God's tapestry called life.