Table for 16

Tonight I sat at a table of fifteen women, realizing I only know one of them and the truth is that I don't know her all that well.  Brenda was celebrating a friend's birthday tonight at Chili's and invited me to go with her.  As we were all gathered at a big table, conversation touched on several different topics.  I was enamored at the work gossip thrown around the table and the venting that seemed to get them all worked up.  Throw in a couple cosmopolitans and you've got a rowdy crowd.  I had no connection whatsoever so I had the pleasure of people watching with an open invitation!  It was great entertainment but even more than that, it was a great experience.  I sat around a table with fifteen women who were all very different from the next, listening to their life experiences from battling cancer to flatlining during childbirth.

I don't know how I ended up at that table and I don't know the plan God has for me. I'm still not sure what the reason was for being so drawn to this family in Texas but I do know that it's an adventure.  I'm just learning to embrace it as such.