prodigal son

I realized that I had better start documenting the crazy and amazing times that God has powerfully showed up in my life. There are too many to count. Here is one.

I was on a greyhound bus travelling about 17 hours north of Vancouver to work at a Christian camp one summer. I was going to meet up with some university classmates.

On the bus, I overheard a dude a couple seats back talking to the person beside him. "I haven't been home in years. I'm going home tonight."  He explained "I left home many years ago on bad terms with my family, haven't spoken to my dad in years. I haven't told him I'm coming home. I'm just gonna show up at the doorstep. I got nothing on me except the clothes I'm wearing. I don't know what my dad's gonna say."

The bus was in the middle of nowhere driving down country roads.

Meanwhile in my head I'm thinking "ok buddy, this is practically word for word the story of the prodigal son".  I happened to have a book on me written by Max Lucado about the prodigal son and the story of Jesus. God clearly told me to give the book to the dude.

The story of the prodigal son is a story representing Father God's love for His children. Our Father, always welcomes his children home when they turn around and come back to Him with sincere hearts.

So I was gonna walk over to him and say "Hi, God wants you to have this book."

But those were the old days, days when I was scared to do stuff like that. So I sat there with the book in my hand and a bookmark in the place about the story of the prodigal son.

I kept thinking about how to give him the book.  I decided to put $20 inside the front page of the book.  I kept trying to get up to give it to him.
The next thing you know I heard him saying that he was getting off the bus in the middle of these dirt roads to walk to his house.
As he walked past me, I said "uhhh, here you go, this is for you."

He said: Thank you!

I don't know the rest of the story but God does. God simply asks us to do our part and He does the supernatural part. He asks us to listen to the Spirit and obey.