A Follow Up!

Hey ya'll!

 

I know I don't usually do this, but here's a follow-up for our last newsletter because God followed up on me and I wanted to tell ya'll about it! Yesterday I went to the bookstore at my community college to try to sell a couple of books back since I'm done with finals for this semester now! (and soo happy to say so!) While I was filling out a form to turn in with them I had an interesting conversation with the guy working there. "You're a believer?" he said. "Mmhm," I answered with a smile, but I was thinking how did he know that??

Then I noticed he was kind of looking at my big sparkly cross necklace. Ta-da! People really do notice what you wear. Like even crosses, not just modest or immodest. And they know what they stand for. It's not like I cuss or cheat or misbehave or steal, I don't regret how I've conducted myself in all my crosses, because whether I'm wearing one or not I want to bring glory to God! But I wear them ALL the time, and honestly I don't always think about it anymore. They've kinda become  more of a fashion statement to me now - because they're just so cute and country-style - not a mark of ownership that I do belong to God. But that's what other people see, whether they tell ME about it or not. It was a good reminder. I thought it was weird too that it came up right after we wrote our newsletter on modesty!

He went on to ask what was my favorite book, at which point I had a very blonde moment. "The Bible," I answered... with a little l.o.l. ;)

"Haha of course," he says, "like what book?" 
"I don't really read anything else," my blonde moment continued with a big cheesy smile.

"No, like what book in the Bible?" Ohh! drr! I thought for a second and said Proverbs, because in that feeling-so-stupid moment I forgot that II Timothy is actually my favorite and is matter-of-factly the book that is falling apart in every Bible I've ever owned! He just totally took me off guard I guess. I don't have conversations like that with random people very often, even though I wish I did. Asked who my favorite character was and I said probably Peter, even though I've never really decided. We talked for a minute after that while they checked on my books and I wished I could be bold like that, to even bring up the conversation with people I KNEW were "believers," much less people I couldn't tell that might jump down my throat! One of my Bible class teachers asks a question, "If you believe this story, (God's Word!) and that you're a part of it, what in your life, right now, needs to change?"

I need boldness.

 

Thanks for reading!

 

keep smiling,

 

autumn clare