well, on saturday, i was on my way to Risteyspaikka youth meeting, where i was leading worship in the evening (which involved getting three buses).
So, i got to the second bus stop, and a guy sat on the bench started to talk to me. Obviously, he was talking in Finnish, so i said something along the lines of "Anteksi, olen englantilainen. Puhun vahan suomea."
So then he began to talk to me in his broken english. As i sat next to him and he continued talking, i could smell and hear that he was kinda drunk.
We talked about random stuff for a bit.
Then Jari (the guy) got his phone out and asked me if i knew the song he played on his phone - it was "Turn your eyes upon Jesus" and he told me he believed in Jesus - pretty cool, although not at all what i was expecting. He also played "Silent night" which he also had on his phone. He then asked me to play my guitar (which i had with me). So we sat in the bus shelter, singing what words we could remember of silent night. The other people around were clearly slightly freaked out by what was going on - they probs figured i was drunk too.
We talked about Christmas, God and the Jari's Lutheran background for a bit, and then my bus came.
I'm not sure how much of it he would remember, but i'm pretty sure God sent me there to spend about 20 minutes just talking to Jari.
As it says in 2 Corinthians 2, "Through us, He [God] brings knowledge of Christ. Everywhere we go, people breathe in the exquisite fragrance." (the message)
bless you
john
