So cool GOD, you are so COOL!

I believe with my whole heart that God knows what you need when you need it. Today I am both physically and emotionally exhausted and God met me there with some truly refreshing encouragement from a stranger!

To set up how this happened, we have a gym at work and each month there is a member of the month and you have to answer questions about yourself. Three of the questions are biggest life accomplishment, funny fact, and life motto. So I struggled with what to write down, how can I be bold but not too bold, and life accomplishment I’m only 28 – sheesh! So here is what I wrote…

Accomplishment: The kids that I mentor in Cabrini Green, the relationship that we have and the hope for their future!
Funny Fact: I will do anything to make the kids I mentor smile…this includes some pretty insane dancing!
Motto: Don't dread the hills in life, celebrate that you were given the strength to climb (I was basically trying to say, life will be hard, but rejoice because God has given you the strength to overcome – in my somewhat PC work jargon)

So the encouragement part....a random guy came up to me in the cafeteria today (there are 2500 people in my building), he walked straight up to me and said Camille, you don't know me...but I wanted you to know that I saw your profile in the gym. I read it and I was very encouraged by what you do with those kids in the city. Thank you for being an encouragement.

I was taken back, pretty shocked and thought to myself whoa God, you just found me on the most emotionally and physically exhausted day I have had in a really long time and reminded me that the work I do for you matters. It was a huge reminder that God has all of this planned out and that HE has an impact; that we cannot understand! I think with SLAM especially, I only think of the impact it has on the kids, but who knows, God is so huge and awesome and He revealed to me today the impact it could have on people I don't even know. So the encouragement I found here is that at times though we may grow weary, God has a plan much greater than anything we could ever imagine and though we may only get to see snippets, it's AWESOME when we do!!!!