lunch

so i found myself today sitting in my uusual "alone spot" at Uni (which I am the first to admit is not really the nicest spot on my campus, but I like to call it mine) eating my lunch, reading and replying to emails, when this guy just came up to me, asked me if he could sit down and ask me some questions.

At first I wanted to tell him to go away and leave me alone, but I don't know whether it was his exotic (lol) American accent or the fact that I had to kill time for an hour before my next class, but I invited him to sit. His name was Garett, and he was from Billings, Montana.

What followed was really quite an amazing part of my day. I knew straight away that he was one of these Christian students who travelled to another part of the globe on some sort of "mission" to share their faith.. so to begin with I was a little quiet. However, as we got into things, I really started to feed off the discussion. We talked about religion (obviously) and whether God forgives people who don't believe in him. And if everyone has the chance at the end of their life to ask for forgiveness, and therefore be welcomed to heaven, then why should we follow God during life?

Our discussion evolved onto talking about religion vs science, and the validity of the bible, and how accurate it may be? We talked about whether God wants a personal relationship with us or not, and how individuals should treat this supposed relationship.

I think by this stage, Garrett was satisfied with the discussion we'd had, and so we started talking more about his time here in Australia, and I shared my stories of my trip to the states last summer.

And before I knew it, it was time for me to go to class, and I had to leave Garrett.

Needless to say, after what really was a rewarding experience, I decided it was a good day.