My bedroom is on the lower level of the house. I am very happy to have a window, but the view is of the window well. We have been talking about what to do to dress it up when my mom found pictures of “fairy gardens” in one of her magazines. This is basically a miniature garden set in a pot with assorted little scenes. Interestingly, a few days later, my cousin dropped my parents an email including a picture of a fairy garden that she was working on that my parents had given to her mother. Then my sister sent me an ad for a class to make one of the gardens hosted by a local garden shop. As I looked at the ad, I thought I recognized the name of the teacher and did a little research. The teacher was in fact the son of some friends I had when I lived in this area previously. He was just a little kid when I moved away. I signed up for the class super excited to make the garden and connect with the young man. Unfortunately, I had to back out of the class as my dad was just getting home from the hospital. Today, my mom and I decided to get a pot of flowers to put on the front porch and headed over to the garden shop. We told the lady at the counter that we were looking forward to making a fairy garden, but could not make it. She said the teacher was there and called him over. It was the young man that I knew as a young boy. We chatted a bit about where the assorted family members were now and I knew I was staring at him. I apologized and said it was just so funny that I remember him when he was little, so he squatted down low to see if that was better. He did look pretty much the same, just taller! It was pretty funny.

I Found God today in the interesting circumstances to connect with a young man and seeing how he grew from the small boy I remembered into a young adult.