During our breakfast we caught up on life. We hadn’t spoken for about 6-8 months. The cool part of our conversation was when he shared that he thought God was using me, the last time we spoke, to tell him something.

It was another morning over breakfast and he was telling me how he was unhappy with his current job. My friend had quit pursuing his education and went into facilities management because he was good at it and it was an easy way for him to make a living. He really is talented at fixing things. I will never forget what he told me once, “Frank, necessity is not the mother of invention, poverty is the real mother of invention. Now that you are back in college and hanging around me you will learn this stuff!”

He was right, hanging around him I got to see the guy work in every trade from plumbing to auto mechanics. But I never thought my friend’s real talent was in fixing things. His talent is in fixing people. Connecting people to their spiritual self and helping then grow closer to God. When we met 8 months ago I shared with him that I thought he was in the wrong career field and that he should seek to get more involved in his church and pursue a job there as the church grows.

This morning he told me how that conversation was the beginning of a series of events (which I won’t go into detail) that led him to changing careers and going back into ministry.

It is so rewarding when God shows you that he is using you isn’t it? I am thankful for the many friends in my life that God has used to speak to me and I am equally thankful when God uses me to speak to them.