I knew it! There are still decent people in the world!

I had an interesting thing happen today. Some people reading this already know that the place I work is being remodeled into another company that appears to have no further need for me. Today at work I had a little elderly woman ask me, "Are you switching over to the other company?" I said, "Probably not. I don't think they will be keeping a lot of the full time people." She seemed genuinely bothered by this. "Well," she said, "I wish you good luck." I replied, "Don't worry about me. I'll figure something out. God is good!" This is where the exchange got interesting. She tells me, "Well, I'm an atheist. I don't think He's bad, I just don't think He's there!" We both had a little laugh over that. It would have been fine to leave it there, but then she really surprised me. She looked me in the eye and said, "But I hope He has a good thought for you."

The point here is this. I will never make any apology for believing the way I do. I wear my faith like a badge. The world is full of people who choose to be "offended" by it and go so far as to try to eliminate it from every place imaginable. There are numerous people who look for reasons to hate someone else. "You're Pro-Life? I hate you!" You're Pro-Choice? You're a murderer!" "You voted R instead of D? You're an idiot!" It's madness!! This woman could have chosen to be one of those people. Heck, for that matter I could have chosen to be one of those people. But the amazing part is that neither of us did. We couldn't have been any more different spiritually. But in that moment, two people chose to accept each other, and even more than that, to support each others' respective beliefs. That's the America I remember. Where the heck has it been?