The Children With Lead Us....

Hello There.....

There is this man who comes into Starbucks on a regular basis. His name is Charles (which I completely love...for some reason that name is just so awesome to me), and usually he comes in, orders either a tall coffee or a glass of ice water, then he sets up his laptop and sits there for hours typing. Then, he pretty much keeps to himself the whole time. I'm not really sure what I used to think he was doing. I guess I thought he was playing FarmVille or something like a lot of our other customers do. For some reason it just never occurred to me that he may be writing something.

After a couple hours, he came over to the counter and ordered a pastry. This was a surprise in it's own because like I said all he orders usually is coffee or water. And he says to me, "I'm getting some good stuff done today."

So I asked, "Are you a writer? Are you writing a book?"

"Yes." he says. "It's about our spirituality and how most of us disconnect with it."
Then he proceeds to tell me about his book. How he has a bunch of people's stories about their spirituality, and how he is trying to reach out to my generation because my generation is a lot like his was. We are trying to connect to our inner spirits and a lot of our generation are trying to do this through drugs.

"This is where my generation went wrong." he tells me. He says that this is what he wants my generation to understand that all we need to do is not be contaminated be all the media and drugs and basically bad crap out there, and we will accomplish our destinies. Then he says something that was like a well needed smack in the face.

"God said that we would be led by children. That a child would lead us to our destinies. That's your generation."

BAM.

Electric shock wave through my body. This man is serious! He is for real right now! He truly believes in my generation. I am completely astounded. Goose bumps are running up my arms, and I'm feeling emotional. This man believes that God has not only a purpose for us, but a destiny that will affect our whole world. He says that he knows that he will be led by us!

I was so surprised by this man's faith. He not only believes this but he is trying to help us get to it!!!

Can you imagine what the world would be like if we were all brought up with this being what our parents taught us? I mean, this must be something that I was never told, because could I have possibly missed that Sunday School lessen? To believe in myself. And to believe that God has a destiny for me to accomplish, and that all I have to do is listen, and not be distracted by all the useless crap that travels through my eardrums without my permission.

My soul is mine to protect and I should be able to choose what gets put into it, right? I mean think about all the useless, horrible things that we listen to everyday....whether we want to or not. I have a say in this!

It is completely and entirely eye opening to me. I am so convinced in the power that God has placed in me. Me. Come on. You know you do it to. You have times where you think God gifted this person or that person, but darn it he gifted all of us!!!!! Including you, and me. It's inspiring to hear that there is a purpose to this big crazy beautiful thing called life, even if it's just a pit stop to where we're all really headed.

Thank you Charles, for being Charles, and giving us all some hope.

I challenge everyone to change something....let's go after our destiny, and do it by listening to God speak. :D

Here we go...

Wilbanks