Last weekend I decided to stay home while most people went out. It was a normal day. I was laying outside listening to music when suddenly I heard a car horn over the music. I ignored it at first but when the noise persisted for about 10 minutes I took my headphones out to see if I could figure out what could possibly be going on. There was a man in his car yelling, “hello?!” repeatedly. Finally, I said hello to him and asked him what he was at our house for. He was looking for our ministry host to edit a paper for him. I told him our host wasn’t home, but he preceded to ask me how long we would be staying in Ethiopia and where I was from. It turns out he knows people in Atlanta, which isn’t too surprising because somehow everyone in Ethiopia seems to know everyone in the entire world. After a few minutes of small talk he asked me if I would edit a paper he was writing in English. I hesitated because honestly it seemed a bit weird, a man showing up unannounced and asking me to edit a paper, but I agreed. He gave me his laptop and left. Talk about trusting a stranger. I started to read the paper and it was suddenly clear to me that he spoke English much better than he wrote it. “This is going to be a lot of work,” I thought. The paper was about a previous Ethiopian emperor Halie Selassie. He was a well educated and well traveled man of faith who changed the course of both Ethiopian and African history. Because Ethiopia was never colonized, he helped many smaller African nations get on their feet independently and started many pan-African organizations. He was even a close friend of John F. Kennedy and was asked to comfort Mrs. Kennedy and their children in Washington after the president’s assassination. After editing this mans paper about Emperor Selassie, I came to find out that the man who asked me to edit it was a close relative of the previous emperor and that the paper I edited was going to be sent to every Ethiopian worldwide and was going to be read at a political gathering in Washington DC in just a couple of weeks. You literally never know they ways God will use you. I am consistently amazed the way He uses me in ways I could literally never imagine.
