Before you go to church today, read this please

From Gordon Macdonald,

An hour before, when we’d picked our seats in the almost-empty sanctuary, it had never occurred to me that, even in seat-selection, one might actually be experiencing the mysterious guidance of the Holy Spirit, who might have had this future conversation in mind.

The rest of the day I kept recalling that serendipitous encounter. What if I’d resisted the impulse to connect with the man in front of me? What if I’d not invited him to sit with us? What if I’d not been responsive in that service-ending conversation?

Gordon once asked me to sit with him — at dinner — and a blessed time it was for me to be with him.