Sooo, to add on to the other post on another day…  I had to say that this was also another awesome story told in the seminar.

My instructor had been taking a flight from somewhere to somewhere (I know, I didn’t listen to that part, but hear me out).  She got on the plane and just prayed that someone would sit next to her that would wnat to talk about God.

This lady came stomping down the aisle in a grumpy fashion.  And she immadiately thought, OK Lord, maybe not this flight, but the next one! :D  But she didn’t even know what was going to happen.

The beginning of the flight started off with trying to break the ice with her and getting her into a conversational mood, but efforts failed and she kept praying that God would work in her to speak out and talk.

Well food time came, and she had to put away the book she had been hiding behind in roder to eat her food– so my instructor engaged conversation again.  This time, they got into my instructor’s passion– she was currently going to Biola.  The lady asked her what her major was– she simply replied that she had just switched from being a socialology major as she disagreed with some of the morals and whatnot.

The lady nosed a bit further by asking, what did you find unethical.  And this is the amazing part, my instructor decided to only elaborate on one of the many things she found unethical– she said that she found the usage of electro-shock therapy to be wrong, unworthy, unhealthy, and deadly– and that no one should have to go through that.

Apparently the girl she was talking to ended up in tears.  She was sobbing and all her walls have been broken.  The conversation furthered and she eventually came to know the Lord on this flight . Apparently she grew up in the south hating Christians, and when she was a tennager her mom was in an institution and had been killed by electroshock therapy.

I am absolutely blown away at this.  What are the odds that my instructor would choose to bring that topic out, that she went to school, that she was on this flight, on this seat, open for discussion and awake, with someone who didn’t want to talk, didn’t want to be there.  It is clearly God working in these times, and all my instructor said was “Lord, guide me.”

She brought up a great point.  This is what allows our faith to grow.  We can read the books, deepen our knowledge– but ultimately the Great Commission tells us to go and tell the Nations! and this will fulfill our need for community and friendship and will give us great joy to see our Brothers and Sisters coming to know Christ!