My February 14 aka Valentines day.

Well, I have a fiance. But she is about an hour and a half away and i cant make it down there till sunday night, so we postponed our valentine stuff till then. Which is fine. Disappointing but fine. So I went to work, then had some errands to run, then I came back to the office to pick up some things before I have worship practice. Luckily I checked my email and saw that about 5 of the 7 people had cancelled on me. I was a bit frustrated, but thats life, things come up. So no big deal. So I called my fiance, we chatted for 30 minutes or so, she tried to talk me into coming down for the night but I just didnt really have the money and it just wasn't feasible. So, I hung up the phone once again frustrated because I couldn't spend time with the gal I am gonna marry, but I knew it before hand, so no biggie. Well I finally get all my stuff together and go outside. I look to the left then right....and I couldn't remember where I parked. But then I remembered, and it just wasn't there. Well, I had parked in the Mexican restaurants parking lot, because I thought that I was going to be there for a max of 20 minutes, but that had changed because we didnt have practice. So worst case it was stolen, bad case it got towed. So I went inside the restaurant, ate a taco so I wouldnt be as mad when I talked to the manager and after I was done spoke with him. The manager said yes, it had been towed and had waited till 6 to tow it, I left my office at about a quarter after 6. good timing. Horray.

So I called the tow service. $120 wow. That sucks, and I dont have that in my bank account so I planned on picking it up tomorrow, after I get my pay check. So I decide to hoof it to main street. So I can get a cab. I go hang out at shesha cafe. As I wait for the cab it then dawns on me that I will need cash to pay the driver. Trying not to be angry, I walk down to the 7/11 and take some money out of the ATM. As I walk back to the cafe, in my flip flops, I put my hand in my pocket and discover I had a 10 in there the whole time. Great.

So finally, after I stand outside for about 45 minutes, the guy pulls up. As I get into the car me and the driver, Steve, start to chat, I am asking about his job and how everything works. He tells me he is on hour 2 of a 12 hour shift. He does this 4 days a week and is married. He then tells me its nice to pick up someone that isnt drunk and doesn't need to stop every 5 minutes to throw up. He then tells me that some of the drunk people tip him the most because they really dont realize what there doing. He then asks me what I do and I tell him I am a worship pastor/youth pastor at Northstar church. We chat a little bit about that. He doesn't say a whole lot after that. As we pull up I have already decided to give him the 20 that I took out of the ATM and not the 10 I already had for my 8 dollar fare. As I give it to him I said "Im not drunk but I do want you to keep the change," he looks at me and says are you sure and I said yup. Then he said, hey I've been meaning to get back in church, where is yours at.

So, for people who doubt Gods sovereignty and his plans for our lives, well I think this is a pretty good example. Im not saying I, myself, am some great Christian and good a this Christianity thing, and yes it sucks that I will end up shelling out 140 dollars that I really dont have to spend. But I know that this was somewhat a test, a test of patience and a test of me trusting and following God. And I think I passed, and I know God will bless me for it. Heck, he already has started to, I got to see the end of "Abominable" a horribly bad movie on Sci-Fi. Hilarious.
Happy V-day everybody.