Still Amazed at the places God puts me

Today I had planned to have lunch with a good friend of mine (Brent or I'm Taken). My retriever side had been missing his company and wanted to stay in touch, especially since he is in the same town. Brent, if you're reading this, we should probably still stay in touch more. After I'm sure much debate in his mind as to where we should meet and eat, McAllister's was the final call. Which is good because I couldn't think of anything, and when he mentioned it I couldn't think of anything that would be more fitting.
  
The time was well spent in good, friendly inquiry of the other's life. We covered just about all of the bases, past, present and future concerns, discussing what it may be that the Lord has for either of us, and the anticipation of those things. The conversation I'm sure could have lasted much longer. I'm thinking now of all the things that have happened that we could have discussed, dang. Well, the time was well spent wither way.

You may be asking yourself...     ...."What does this have to do with the title of your blog Chauncey?"... "      "...Well, I will tell you. To understand fully you will need some background information. The past about a year ago I was in a discipleship program at Pine Cove called the Forge, not a whole lot of time to get into all of that if you have questions we can talk. In this program we took a trip to Israel, again, not enough space on the blog to contain that trip, sorry. On trip trip we had a very special tour guide, a man of God who has deeply impacted all of the lives of the people who were involved with that trip. His name is Marty.

 Marty has had an impact on my life personally in how he was used by God to speak into my life, as he did for all of us. But what he said to me I have seen played out first hand. Marty told me that although my name is "Chance" that I don't take chances. Now, as he says this in my mind I'm thinking, "Marty, you don't know me, I do crazy stuff all the time, surely, you must be mistaken". He continued, "you need to take chances knowing that God has ordained those and that actually there are no chances because God is in those and will use those".

This is what he said to me a year ago this week. As we have seen with the last blog I put up, this has played out nicely. That the Lord will show me things for people, and to the outsiders, it looks like I'm taking a "chance" in that, but that Lord has ordained those things for those times, and as we saw, He uses that. This blows my mind, often.

Background info complete. While I was sitting in McAllister's today, just earlier, I see a current Forgie pass by, then another, and my mind goes through this process as follows: oh, a Forgie. Oooh, another one, oh wait, this must be their speaker lunch. Who is there speaker this week? Marty! Is he here, yes he is here!

  I had a short but sweet reunion with a man who has taken the Lord at His Word, and continues to faithfully point others to Him. I giddily (I know, not really my style), related to Marty what the Lord had been doing, and hopefully encouraged him through that. I offered to have another reunion while he was in the area, hopefully with the whole 806 clique in attendance. Then I let him go to pass on his legacy with his current disciples.

I am still amazed at the places God puts me.

-Chauncey