God Moments
We had finished picking strawberries and were headed back to the car. A young couple with three small girls came by us and asked us to take their picture. We struck up a conversation, and learned that he was James Skipworth, the Children’s Pastor at Christ Community Church here in town http://www.cccsumter.com/james.htm. We did the typical Southern conversation of finding out where each other was from and he mentioned that he lived for a while in Tampa. I told him I was born in Wauchula.
His wife Cindy spoke up and said, “My mother was born in Wauchula!” “Really?” I replied. We started unraveling her mother’s background. Cindy said, “Her grandmother was Flosse Crews.” I held out my hand and said, “Howdy cousin. Your great-grandmother and my grandmother were sisters.”
It really was a God moment for me. You never know who God will put in your path - maybe family you didn’t even know you had.
These two thoughts - isn’t that what church is supposed to be? Family you didn’t know you had? Second thought - if you are part of the body of Christ, you do have family you’ve hever met. But you will, in a place called heaven.
