Day 17: "You have to do something about it"

"Wake the dead,

serial sleepers slay with words unsaid . . .
Rise up oh sons of God,
and sing the song that hides behind your teeth
These ears have longed to hear . . ."

House of Heroes - Serial Sleepers

Today as I was walking to the Oval I was wondering
what in the world would happen next.

Do you ever just lose the ability to even
guess what the next situation will be
in your life?

Maybe I'm not alone on this one but with a little bit
of time before work I went out
and had a couple of rejections
when I saw this person sitting at a
picnic table and maaan . . . it was like a light was shining on them ya know.

I told myself I would check and see if anyone was sitting in front of
Hayes Hall because I felt like maybe there was someone there waiting but
there wasn't.

Afterwards I wondered about the other person I had seen.
Maybe they had left ya know?

They hadn't.

I asked this girl who ended up being from China if she wanted to do
a survey and she was all about it!

What looked like studying from afar ended up being her listening to her jams
on her good ol' ipod :-)

She put the ear pods away and we got down to it.

She believed Jesus was her Savior which was cool but she felt only 90% sure
she was going to Heaven.

After some solid talking and Word we got all that clear which is sweetness
and we started to talk about other things.

She mentioned that the Bible in China is really hard to read and told me that
I had to do something about it.

I was taken aback a little.

Ok. Sure.  Where do you go from there?

I told her that I had just talked to a friend about Chinese Bibles the day before
and let her know that there is a good translation in Chinese already.

OH!  She also didn't know that there was a Chinese Church in Columbus so that
was cool.

We got to talk about Jesus quite a bit and before I left she told
me again even after all the talking that I had to do something
about the people in China.  There are too many other people influencing
the Chinese she said and I had to do something about it.

Talk about pressure eh?

As I was walking away I remember a thing that happened at SICM a year ago.
I was praying and China flashed in my head.  It was spelled out in white letters
against a black back drop.  I was freaked out at the time and have since
figured that maybe God was just seeing if I would be willing to
go since I wasn't really about the whole idea of going to a foreign land
at that time.

The only other moment I can remember seeing a message in the same way was
when I got completely redirected to go to some other place and a series
of crazy cool things happened that made me know for sure that I was
supposed to be where I ended up.  Namely, the Short North at a Diner
where I was supposed to talk to someone.  That's a WHOLE other story though.

Shessh.

Do you ever feel like your plate is full?
I know others have done plenty more but still . . .

. . . is it possible to get signs to go to a couple of different countries
years before without knowing exactly how it's supposed to work out?

How about teaching at Central Catholic High School somewhere
before or after all of that?

Nomad is all I can think about.  I know it.
I'm gonna be some sort of crazy Nomad.

With that I'm off!

Fare thee well my dear friends and God bless you all :-)