Nudges

D'you ever get that nudge?

You meet a person and you just have to know more about them. That probably is giving the wrong impression. Its more like you meet a person [or see that they are online on facebook chat] and for some reason, not because they have any kind of external draw, but there is instead a certain magnetism to that person. You just need to talk to them and see what they are thinking. As much as we might like to blame that sort of thing on that person's personal qualities, I believe that it is much deeper than that. Sometimes God places people in our lives for a distinct purpose, and He knows that we'll screw it up if we are just expected to know that they are important, so He makes it a little more obvious.

He nudges.

I was very recently online and saw someone online who was a friend of a friend who had befriended me on facebook but I had never really talked to. Yeah. Earlier in the evening, part of the shoddy wooden scaffolding of cope I keep in my mind to keep me sane had toppled, leaving me in emotional shambles. Nothing huge, just one of those times when the weight of life is dropped like a ton of refrigerators on a very sketchy scaffolding made of two by fours and hammered together by 10 year olds with a rusty hammer. It doesn't really hold up. When it tumbles, it hurts, but you rebuild and move on with life.

So I'm online after the structural disaster and see this acquaintance at best, and get this feeling that I need to talk to him.

Nudge nudge.

So I do it. I told him that it was a random impulse conversation, and moved on. Within minutes, we were in deep conversation. Two people who didn't really know much about each other, other than that our connection is one we both trust, sharing in a random conversation. We talked about problems we were both going through, we talked about cussing in prayer, we talked about spiritual hunger. We both needed that conversation, and yet neither of us had any reason to have it. We both walked away from it a little bit transformed and full of peace.

Thanks for the nudge.

I tell this story to encourage you to obey these feelings, these impulses. God has a perfect plan that involves people and events, and if you aren't listening to what he is saying you might miss it. So next time you get that feeling like you need to talk to someone or you need to go somewhere, and it doesn't make much sense, look at it and see if it isn't a divine nudge, pushing you in the way you should go.

Thanks for reading.