A little Sunday Encounter...

I wanted to start with a warning but I realized that it is becoming so much a habit that it might be scary... but nonetheless (and that is one cool word!) nonetheless (yep. using it again) I warn you that what you will read might sound something like a sociological insight but nope, it is just simple me...

Last Sunday I was walking with my mum and we crossed on our way a couple that I have never seen in my whole life but obviously my mum did because she automatically had her hand out for a handshake and they started to have these random chitchats of how are yous and we miss yous and all ... Obviously I enjoy these... not! but I had to smile, get my hand and wave (I try to avoid handshakes, specially if people were walking... sweaty hands are not really my thing) and while mum was talking to the woman, the man started to talk with me and asking me what I am doing in life and things he will forget before a minute passes but he was so kind and sweet that something in that encounter made me think... 

A total stranger to me, had the freedom to talk to me without much of the creepiness of a stranger because he knew my mum (mum if you ever read this, you are beyond awesome and I love you ♥)...

Now I know that we need to know God personally and we cannot have a relationship with him based on our parents' one but there is something in there, in that small useless conversation, that struck me... Parents do have this ability to channel relationships into the lives of their kids, and a total stranger can in just a minute become someone we know and talk to without complications (and you get it, personally know that person (and it rhymes!))... because he knows mum, or dad for that matter... or rather mum and dad know him... And there lies one responsibility... not really one of education or one of exposure but more of a one that they need to know, truly know, Him and then things can start from there, from the meeting to the greeting (by the way it seems that I might just be a poet!!) to the talk and so on...

And then another event came to my mind. A few people I know now very well, I first got to just wave simply because they were the friends of a dear friend... and I thought, hey! wait a minute... I do not have to wait till I am a mum (not likely that I become a dad so we'll stick to me maybe becoming a mum) to be that channel, that friend that knows the Friend... 

I am not an expert in how this life functions, but I know that yes, we can know people through others and when someone will come and hit me with the idea that God should be "purely" discovered, I will just wave and introduce him to my best friend (because she is awesome and everyone should know her and she gets a heart or two even --> ♥♥ for you) and ask him/her if he got to "purely" know her or not... 

But what I really took from this silly little Sunday event is that to actually invest time in knowing Christ more and more so that if I cross Him while walking with someone, I will have a reflex to put my handout and wave and get things started from there!!

ps. If you want to get to know my awesome friend, leave me a hint and I'll see if you are worth it ^^