Wednesday, April 6, 2011

The girl and a car

She walked in and quickly asked for a coffee. I asked her if she was hungry and would like something to eat and she said, “I don’t know, maybe.” She seemed tired and much likes someone who had been, or was on a long journey. She was a girl and a car and a long journey she was most definably on.  I went back to begin preparing her coffee and found myself extremely excited with anticipation and intrigue on getting to know her story. This girl and a car, as she so referred to herself on her blog site, was the most interesting part of my day.
She was from Northern Maine and had recently graduated from NYU with a degree in journalism and communication and left New York for the adventure of a life time, a major road trip. She was traveling alone, just this girl and her car, well now she was anyway. She had a travel companion but she recently flew back home, to get back to her job. She was only allowed two weeks off, unlike the girl and her car, which had a seasonal job of sorts and was allowed all winter off. In Maine winter lasts almost all the way through May. Here in Texas, it must seem like summer. It was an amazingly beautiful April day in Schulenburg Texas and in walked the girl and her car into The Shop Downtown. She had been traveling on I10 with her next destination to be Louisiana and detoured off the Interstate in a small little town called Schulenburg, where she also found a girl in a shop named Christine that also writes and was just starting a new blog.
Was it a Coincidence?
 I don’t think so.
The night before I had woke up around 2:00 a.m. and had heavy on my heart to start writing, “blogging if you will”, the interesting people that God seems to bring into The Shop Downtown. I knew that I had to start this immediately, but my intentions are always fairly good, and somehow life just seems to distract me. However, this day was different, because the obvious was so obvious that I could more likely fallen off the face of the Earth then not been obedient and write. So, write I am.
Her story, this girl and a car, is pretty simple. She is young, vivacious and just set off to the nation, and she could just leave, so she did.
“FREEDOM!”
 Now, how she ended up in my small coffee shop in the middle of nowhere, “ No Target having”, Schulenburg Texas, now that was God. He brought her in; I am completely convinced of it. She was on a journey, just like I am on a journey and he used our two journeys to encourage one another.           
We talked for hours. We asked questions and shared our love for writing. When I asked her the question, “Are you a writer?” she answered the same way I would have, she laughed and said, “I would like to call myself a writer, but don’t know if I should.” I am not sure what this meeting meant, but I like to call it a divine appointment. I don’t know if I will ever see the girl and a car again, but I do know that she made an impact on me. I began to write, that night, I began to write this, this simple little blog about the day the girl and a car came into the shop downtown. Again, I don’t know what it means, but I do know that the chance meeting that day moved something in my spirit that had fallen asleep and I began to write again. We are all on this miraculous journey and we are all connected in one way or another and if we will stay open to the voice of God and the strange ways that He may choose to communicate to us, it is an exciting adventure, fun and exciting!
So, today I close with the simple advice to “stay open to divine appointments that may be planned for you, for it will be in these simple appointments that you may truly hear the voice of God and travel further towards your destination.”  We are all on a journey and all need to take a road trip once in a while, whether it is hopping in our cars and taking off, or merely sitting in a shop and taking a journey with a young girl for a few hours as you visit sitting in a small coffee shop in a small town in the middle of nowhere.