Walk in my shoes- Things happen to the best of Us

Appointments are made by God in normal, typical, and in unusual ways. I enjoy God appointments that take me by surprise. One such appointment occurred not long ago when my wife and I strolled over to a bookstore after watching a movie.
I was in the history section, just browsing, and I noticed a table was set up along with some chairs, so I knew the area was probably used for book signings. In fact I heard the store pa system announcing a book signing would take place in 5 minutes.
I continued browsing when a tall, well polished man sat down at the table and a sharp and well dressed woman sat down in a chair on the other side of him.
A very pleasant "Hello, how are you?" greeted me from the man sitting at the table.
I went over and we all introduced ourselves. The man was the author of a book called "Walk in my Shoes-things happen to all of Us" and his name was Destry Dokes. It is a book about change, the worst kind, the change that is forced on us by events such as Hurricane Katrina.
As we talked I shared with him that I had been involved at Katrina, first as a shelter team leader/volunteer responder at the Baton Rouge River Center Shelter in Sept and Oct for Victim Relief Ministries and later as the Katrina Team Project Director for Victim Relief Ministries with operations in the Family Assistance Center in Baton Rouge and the 9th Ward Operations.
Further as Destry was sharing his passion for helping people he shared that he was from Lakewood Church in Houston that was also committed to responding to the needs of people in the community and wondered if I had heard of his church. (We were at a bookstore in Dallas)
I grinned and said- "victim Relief Ministries is working with Lakewood and we have nearly 100 trained volunteers from the church and have another training session coming up soon!"
We laughed at the way God moves to put people together!
I recommend you buy a copy of "Walking in my Shoes" and you can check out
www.destrydokes.com for more information.
As this blog is dedicated to "Ready to Respond" I will close with a quote from his book-
"Do not invest all your energy in the size and impact of your storm. Instead, address your storm, embrace the change and live your life."
Continuing to journey with you-
Edward