Mercer!

This weekend the youth group from Belpre Church of Christ went to a big youth rally called Winterfest.Before leaving for this weekend i started reading Irresistible Revolution by Shane Claiborne and it has really made me think a lot about life and helping the poor and outcast. So this weekend when go to Winterfest God set someone in front of me and made me think a lot about this subject.
At Winterfest between sessions your group has time to walk around Gatlinburg, TN and just look in the stores and different things. When walking around Gatlinburg with some girls from the youth group we saw this guy that was in this little shopping park, that had a ball and was doing all kinds of tricks with it. So one of the girls was watching him and we had stop while one of the other girls was in a store and the one girl asked the rest of us if we were interested in going and ask him if there was anything that we could pray for, for him. So we all kind of just sat there not really answering her for about the next 5 minutes. In that 5 minutes God was speaking to me. He said this to me " Delaney see that guy, you need to go ask him. I am giving you an opportunity to do something that you enjoy doing and something i have given you a desire to do." So when God was speaking to me i still just sat there. Then the one girl was like i will be back i am going to go give him some money ill be back. So when she said that i got up and was like wait i am going with you because i knew God had given me this opportunity to live his kingdom and i needed to take it. So we went and talked to him! His name is Mercer and he travels around to different places to do tricks with the ball he was playing with in the park that day. So we got to talking with him and asked him why he did what he does and he said that he does it because he loves bring a smile to person faces and it brings a smile to his face. So he just travels around to put smiles on peoples faces. (How cool is that!!!!) So when we were done listening to him tell us about what he does, we asked him if there was anything we could pray about for him. So he told us that he walks every where he goes and wanted us to pray for safe travels and that he doesn't get hit by a car or anything like that!
God put him there i feel for me to learn a lesson then! Isn't God just awesome all the time :] So when you get a chance please pray for Mercer and safe travels for him! Also when you get the chance sit down and listen to the words of Follow You by Leeland and Brandon Heath!