Today was one of those moments where I'm just humbled by God.

As I've mentioned on my blog, my neighbor used to be my neighbor.

10 years ago my young family was living next to Mary and Greg and their children.  Greg was in a BAD car wreck and the place we lived in had a strict set of guidelines of lawn care.  So for several months I was taking care of both of our lawns.  I knew Mary had a full load on her hands. 

Some things happened to where we moved, but I left my lawn mower with them because they didn't have one. Figured that was the last I'd ever hear from them...

Fast forward 10 years later, and I find out that the house we bought has a familiar neighbor in Mary.  Life had taken some curvy roads for her and now Mary and her husband Mike were my new neighbors! 

Then a few weeks later we were down in the Village of Batavia handing out invitations to the community for our Vacation Bible school, and who did my son and I run into?  Mike and Mary!  We gave them the invite and they brought their daughter to the VBS.  She loved it, they came to church, they loved it... and it was all capped off this morning when both of them were baptized!

How much did I play in this scenario?  Really I don't know.  Would they have shown up at LifeStream Christian Church anyway's? Maybe.  But what role do I know I played?  I wasn't a jerk!  Imagine if the situation was different and I was one of 'those' neighbors?  Imagine their reaction to my church when we gave them an invite, if I was one of 'those' neighbors.

Its truly humbling to see how a seed of being nice, blossomed into what I witnessed this morning. You never know how what you are doing today will play out 10 years from now...