Four rows back.

I forgot to blog about this originally, but it kept coming up in my mind, so I figured I should write about it! On my flight to Australia, God did something awesome. For some reason Lauren and I ended up not sitting together on our flight from Denver to San Fran. I'm not going to lie, I was a little upset. I had just left everything that I had known in my life and now the one person I was relying on was taken away from me (well, like four seats behind me...haha and yes, that was kind of exaggerating). Little did I know, God was working in huge ways already and I hadn't even left the country. I sat next to this lady named Ruth-Anne, but she told me I could call her Rat. haha She was headed home.

We ended up talking the whole entire three hours of the flight. At one point she told me she felt bad for continually talking and told me I could do something else. The time that we weren't talking lasted maybe five minutes before we headed straight into our conversation again. If I had to guess, she was probably in her mid-sixties. She had a lot of connections with YWAM in her life and was very excited for all of the adventures that God had in store for me. She kept talking about how her calling was to help others figure out their spiritual gifts and encourage people to use them. She worked very closely with her church and was very, very involved.

We talked a lot about her family too. Her love for her family was so evident in the way she spoke about them. It was beautiful. I could so clearly see how much God was just poured into every inch of their family. haha At one point, she was trying to remember a certain worship song. She knew the words "amazing love" were in it. We ended up singing almost the whole song together... on the plane. God knew exactly what He was doing by sitting me by her. "Amazing love, how can it be? That you my King would die for me. Amazing love and I know it's true. It's my joy to honor You. In all I do, let me honor You."

She talked a lot about her grandkids. She reminded me a lot of my Grandma Bud. :) You could tell she loved and lived for these kids. After a while, I talked to her about my G'ma Bud. She reassured me that she would be so proud of me and all that I'm doing to dedicate my life to Christ. It was exactly what I needed to hear.

God truly provides in unexpected ways. :)