Fun fact about me: I am terrified of doing things alone most of the time.
Just minutes after making plans to go to some of our middle schoolers' softball game my teammate told me she couldn't make it. BOTH my teammates told me they couldn't make it. That meant I was going it alone. To a softball of girls that I don't even know super well and in a part of Floyd County that was completely foreign to me. As I went to bed last night I secretly hoped that my alarm would forget to go off so I wouldn't have to go to this game alone. Needless to say, my alarm went off, I got some Starbucks, turned on some Jesus tunes and headed to good ole Check, VA.
When I got into the parking lot this morning there was NO ONE there. Check Elementary fields were a ghost town. What a sigh of relief that was! No softball for me today! But leaving right away just felt wrong (mostly because I had just driven 45 minutes to get there, but God was also yanking on my heart not to just desert these girls). So I sat in the parking lot and read my Bible while I waited for some sign of a softball game in the area. I can across Deuteronomy 31:8, "The Lord himself goes before you and will be with you; he will not leave or forsake you. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged."
I was definitely afraid, and definitely discouraged by 1. being there alone and 2. it seeming like I was in the wrong place at the wrong time. But as soon as I got down reading that verse I watched three mini vans full of the girls I knew pulled into the parking lot. Talk about a God moment! I moved my car to the fields, sat in my car, prayed some, manned up, and went for it. The first girl I saw FREAKED out when she saw me, and in all honesty that one moment was all I needed to verify that was most definitely NOT in the wrong place at the wrong time.
During the freezing cold game I got to sit with some really awesome moms who so loving shared their blanket with and got to chat about life while we watched their daughters dominate the game. I got some funny looks when they found out I was a college student but I like to think they thought I was pretty cool (: When I left the moms THANKED be for coming. Like, for real?! That was definitely the coolest for me, that as I walked out the moms on the bleachers were thanking me multiple times.
Leave it to God to take a situation that I was super afraid of going into and turn it into something totally awesome!
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