I'm in Minnesota. For work (bleh). On the short flight up here, I wrote four blog posts. Work out for my thumbs!! Ha ha. And now, I'm in the hotel room with one more to go. :)
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So I got off the plane and into a cab. I quickly learned that my driver was very friendly and had a thick accent. I too was feeling friendly. (Unusual. You may not know I'm kind of shy and prefer writing here to talking!). Anyway, I asked the driver where he was born. (I learned the hard way years ago not to ask "where are you from?" because, um, the answer is Minneapolis as much as it is Chicago for me!). "Ethiopia," answered the driver. Ahhh. Now we have something to discuss!
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I asked him when he came to the states, if he had returned to Ethiopia since moving here, and what he thought about America. He was very open, so I went for it: "what do you think about adoptions from Ethiopia?" No hesitation. "I think it's great," he said. "The one concern I have is that the children might lose a connection with their home country." I told him I believed that adoptive families I knew were interested in preserving that culture for their kids. He loved that. We had a great discussion!
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Then we turned to the church. He was Presbyterian and now Lutheran and it was clear how important his faith is to him. Clear because he made it clear. And I made it equally clear. We talked about the church and how we've all gone astray and how there is only one thing that really matters: a personal relationship with Christ.
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What a gift to me on a dreaded work trip -- A God connection between two strangers who showed just a little bit of love for each other in a 20 minute ride from the airport. Isn't God cool?
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