against my 'better judgment'

i did some funny things today.



i skipped a quiz to hang out with a friend.

later on, while i was driving away from this dear friend's house, i turned right around and went back to spend another couple of hours with her---(and this is big--you know me--i can be pretty selfish with my time!)

these decisions seem like non-issues...but sometimes, the things that i 'might' do are just things i could do to make someone's day, but i end up avoiding. like i want to go home now and eat dinner with the fam, do some homework and go to bed at a reasonable time. instead, i stay in mississauga and have a really good conversation with someone i love, and i'll be able to sleep even better tonight because of this.

but God does work in mysterious ways.

then i went to pick up anton at the GO station. when i got there, some kid was borrowing his phone, so i waited a bit, and wondered if this kid needed a ride...
turns out he did. good thing he didn't puke in my car...
but that definitely was weird. you don't normally go out of your way to drive some strange drunk kid home, halfway across the city. (haha, i wouldn't have done it if anton wasn't there!)
except, if i hadn't listened to this little voice in my head, if i didn't drive him home, he would have ended up passed out on the street somewhere, or dead. he wouldn't have realized that there are kind people out there, and that not everyone is a jerk, and that despite how low he's fallen, there's still HOPE. he wouldn't have heard the name of Jesus in relation to his own situation. hhmm.... (the problem is, when he wakes up tomorrow with a hangover, will he remember this conversation!?)

and does it really make a difference, in the grand scheme of things? what's one kid who got home safely when so many others are waylaid by various tragedies?
i'm not that excited that i did this (oh, i'm so great, i drove this guy home, wow, good for me)

but, i AM excited that i was able to step out of my comfort zone and make someone's day.
and i AM excited that i was able to talk to this kid about Jesus. he sure needed to hear something good!

and i AM excited that my friend, with God's help, is going to make it past the tragedies.

i know where this kid lives.
maybe i'll drop off a bible and the church's phone number/address in his mail box...