time.”
At that very moment, I took on my full identity as a spiritual
parent to this young woman. I began to share the humiliating
details of my personal story with this beautiful college senior
who was stuck in a middle seat and had nowhere to go for the
next few hours. She listened intently, and we quickly became
friends. It is not cliché to say this was a divine appointment. It
simply was.
God was not on her radar before that plane ride. He existed,
perhaps, but she had no idea that God wanted to be her Savior,
or Father, or Friend. She certainly never considered God as
someone who cared about her dating life. But she clearly
understood me when I told her that “no man will ever fill the
hole in your heart that only God can fill.”
Before we deplaned, both going our separate ways, I asked if
she would like to meet for breakfast at Denny’s on the
following Tuesday morning near her campus. She seemed very
relieved that I would follow up with her.
The following Tuesday, and the Tuesday after that, we met
to talk and pray. God used me strategically to speak to her on
the plane and at Denny’s, to invite her to enter into a
relationship with Him, and to give her the confidence to be a
young woman who didn’t need to sleep with her ex-boyfriend
(or boyfriend, for that matter) in pursuit of true and lasting
love! I believe God reached down from heaven to speak to her
through me. And because of our encounter, she and God, and
she and I, have been friends ever since.
God talks to you and me by reaching down into our hearts
with His love. God talks because He made us in His image; He
created us to communicate with Him, just as easily and as