"A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be."
- Douglas Pagels
"Strangers are just friends waiting to happen." - Rod McKuen
"A friend can tell you things you don't want to tell yourself." - Francis Ward Weller
Saturday on the Street (SOTS!). We all gathered in St. Paul's and got ready to walk to Renaissance Park for a very eventful day. Ainsley, Andy's daughter, came and I got to play with her for most of the time. When we got to the park, we met up with several of our friends. This Saturday I became closer friends with Ainsley:) We got to run around and sprinkle pixie dust on each other so we could fly to Stone Mountain and back to the Park. That was pretty eventful. After we flew to Stone Mountain, she taught me how to play hopscotch and Jamaica joined us as well! I got to introduce Ainsley to several of the people there, like Vinny, Eric, Jamaica, and Eddy! She was a little shy at first but she was so polite and always said hi. It just puts a smile on my face when I see that even girls like Ainsley enjoy the presence of everyone.
The second quote suited me very well for today because some of the people I met at the park were strangers, in fact, I am constantly meeting strangers! But the way Church on the Street and everyone else should view meeting strangers is to view them as "friends waiting to happen". You never know where the conversation might take you. Who knows, it might change your life, like it has done to me. I thought of that while I was playing with Ainsley and that's one of the reason why I kept introducing her to more people. Then Eric and I got to talk about God for a while and that was awesome! I love talking about God and sharing my faith and being able to say what I believe in and have an awesome conversation about it, well that is pretty spiffy.
After SOTS was over, a few of us went back to the park and had food that another ministry was cooking for the yearly community picnic- it was really good! After that, Lauren, Andrew, and I went to Little Five and just looked around. It was a relaxing ending to an eventful day:)
Jenny Sample
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