All over the country Campus Life directors are showing up to ball games, band concerts, plays, after school clubs, and lunch rooms, doing their best to reach every young person one at a time.

This past Monday I was accompanied to the lunch room by a fellow Campus Life staff member. This past weekend that same staff member had attended a funeral for a former CL student from their previous ministry area. The young man was tragically killed in a drunk driving accident and the toll the weekend took on my co-worker was clear. Yet into the lunch room we went, determined to meet new students and spread the word about Campus Life.

In between the first two lunches we were sitting at a table talking when students began to slowly filter into the lunch room for the next lunch period. Several students joined us at our table and soon enough we were shaking hands, exchanging names, and getting to know the young men we were sharing the table with. Soon enough my co-worker turned a corner with one of the young men and they began to engage in a pretty serious conversation. Eventually it surfaced that this particular young man had been struggling with drunk driving and was sharing this very struggle with a man whose life had just been dramatically effected by the same exact thing. At that point my co-worker was given the perfect opportunity to share his heart, his grief, and God's desire to free this young man from his destructive behavior.

My guess is that if we were to go through our days a little more in tune with God's Story, situations like this, "divine appointments" as they're called, would begin to pop up more and more. Jesus reminds us to "have eyes to see and ears to hear" and the author of Hebrews encourages us to always be loving and hospitable to strangers because we never really know who we might be taking care of. Can you imagine how much your life would change if you walked through every day looking intentionally for people around you that need to hear what you have to say?