'Chance' meetings part 2

Fun story- just a glimpse of God being himself and allowing us to enjoy it!

Our first day in Paris we were between the musée d'orsay and Luxembourg Gardens at a little café.  It was a late lunch and everyone was hungry.  It was good!

Not a bad self shot!

Megan's meal

My salad

When we were almost finished eating, a nice older American woman started up a conversation with Kristin.  She asked how we liked Paris, how long we were there, where we are from - the usual questions.  Eventually she got that we are living in France for language school for work and will move to Cameroon afterwards.  Chris explained that we are in the ministry and will work there.  She asked if Kristin would write her an e-mail from Cameroon, that she had never gotten an e-mail from there.  As we looked for a paper for her, I pulled out our prayer card because it has our e-mail and info on it.  She was excited and intrigued about the goal of using local arts and music and marrying scripture and the gospel with it. I asked for her name and what she did. She said it is Sybil and her husband is Martin and that they were writers.  I probed a bit and she said they were comedy writers in California, but now lived in New York. She gave us her e-mail and left with her husband. She was just a nice lady and kind to our children.

After she left, Chris said, 'I wonder...' So we googled Sybil and Martin, comedy writers, and what do you know, they are fairly famous sit-com writers.  Sybil Sage wrote one of my favorite Magnum PI episodes!  We found that she now makes ornate funeral urns and still writes articles occasionally.

That was just fun and random and we enjoyed briefly meeting this woman.

But....

On our last day in Paris, after saying goodbye to Dirk and his family, we took the subway back to where we left the car. And who do you think we ran into in the nearly deserted August subway system? Sybil, Martin and their son.  How fun was that?  She remembered us and was surprised as we were at the 'chance' meeting.  We admitted that we had googled her and enjoyed her work.  She seemed truly pleased that we admired and appreciated it.  I hugged her (good to hug Americans!) and told her it was God ordained, not chance, and that the best part about meeting her was that she is just a regular person and was so kind.  We all enjoyed the moment.

Just before saying goodbye to Dirk

Why did we meet Mrs. Sage? Twice? We may never know, but I am again thankful for God's fingers in our lives in small and large ways.  He is good. All the time.

The 2 stuffed animals who made it in the car- proof they were in Paris!