Several years ago a classmate from high school reached out to me on Facebook. One of his first questions to me was, "How are you doing spiritually?" I was a little shocked by the question as no one had ever asked me that before and my knee-jerk response was, "I'm good!"  Actually, I didn't know what "doing well spiritually" or "I'm good" actually meant. I just said it.

Months later he was in town and had invited a group of classmates to dinner to reconnect and reminisce. After some small talk he said, "I want you all to know the important role you played in my life during high school."  He then went around the table explaining to each of us the role we played in keeping him from committing suicide. He also mentioned that he had read through the Bible book of John with one of our classmates who was at the dinner.

As we were all leaving and saying our good-byes I walked up to his car and asked him, "What book did you read with Cindy?" He told me and to this day I cannot explain why I responded the way I did, "Would you read it with me?" He immediately said he'd be honored.  A week later after texting back and forth he shared the gospel with me and I prayed and asked Jesus to come into my life.  Shortly after that he began meeting with my husband and me to help us grow in our faith over video calls - we enjoyed it so much we continued meeting weekly for over two years.

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- Linda