Real Conversations

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Background: I was wearing a t-shirt with large dragonflies all over it when this conversation took place.

cashier: I like your t-shirt! I love dragonflies!
me: Me too! I actually have an entire collection of them, skewered on straight pins. (laughing nervously, realizing how weird this sounds.)
cashier: Oh, really? Cool! I have a collection of cat whiskers!

I had nothing to say to that. She totally won.

A real person... could never be conjured up in my mind, no matter how long or hard I thought about it...

Laundromat

"When I heard that, when I heard how God had healed her, I felt like I'd won the superbowl! I was so thankful!"

To reflect on the goodness of the Lord with someone you barely know... is rare and sweet.

Kids
On God sending the fiery serpents down on those slavery-preferring Israelites:
child one: "That's not nice! He (God) shouldn't have done that!"
child two (the one who was trying not to listen) : "He had to do something! They weren't believing in Him anyway!"

unless we turn, and become as children...

More Kids
At one point at work, I raised my arm to make a hand gesture...

"Oh, eww. Gross. I can see your armpit. Gross. Put your arm down!"

There is something reliable about the fact that kids always say what they mean... and I checked my armpit... there was nothing really offensive about it.