Now the good news

A group of us went for lunch and one had to go to the autoteller to get money out. So we went over to the Sirtakis where there is a machine. While we waited and whistled (as you do) I noticed a chap with a handful of little blue diaries. I thought "What a lot of diaries that chap has! I wonder if he is distributing them?" Just then a student went by loudly protesting that he was muslim. "And?", I thought. Then the chap approached a student fairly near me and offered him a blue diary, so I sneaked up to hear.

Well they were Gideons (Gédéons), Gideonising the university. So we had the briefest of chats, he gave a New Testament to all in my group and we scuttled off to get our lunch while we could and there discussed thankfulness for food, safe travel etc.

One of the group is a believer from Korea. Another is Orthodox from the former Yugoslavia. Another is Russian and we have never talked about these things before. I'll have a look at my Gédéon NT and see if there is a reading plan in it, and if there is I'll have a chat with them about it and encourage them to read it.

Even a gloomy day has glints of grace.

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