"Why do you look for the Living among the dead?"

So this is just kinda a quick update to the last post basically. i had the opportunity to talk to a really cool guy today on King Street. He was just chillin outside ODB, playing his guitar and harmonica and after i just listened to him for awhile i started talking with him about music and how he learned to play guitar and harmonica at the same time, etc. So we talked off and on in between songs and it was really cool just to see such a genuine human being who had such a joy about him, even though it was evident that when it came to materialistic things he wasn't exactly well off.

Anyways, as conversation progressed, we talked about everything from Johnny Appleseed to Doc Watson and then to deeper things like the way we as humans treat other humans with such disdain sometimes. i mean, both of us could think of a time within the last few days when we had just realized how much we take for granted. He spoke of seeing a man a few days ago pushing his five-year-old son out of the restaurant, and just feeling a sense of deep sympathy while also realizing that he so often just takes the ability to walk for granted. He made a very intriguing comment tho, he said, "It's so hard not to put yourself and your own interests above other people." And it's sooo true. It's really easy to talk about putting others before yourself, but in practice it is far from easy. The coolest thing was that the conversation just getting deeper and deeper until it just naturally flowed into conversation about God and His relationship to the world we live in. He listened as i told him my thoughts on God and the way i see Him work in my life, and i don't necessarily think he agreed with what i said, but he at least respected what i believe.

All that to say that what Bald Guy said last night was so true. It's tiny living. It's just being available. You don't have to worry about when to say things as much as you just have to be ready to say them when it's natural. And when you have something like the Gift of God to talk about, it's really hard to go wrong with timing.