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[This post is part of our “Give away the gospe<\/a>”\u00a0series. Eric* writes from his personal experience.]<\/p>\n One day three years after receiving a bone marrow transplant, I was in the cancer clinic for my annual check-up. As I sat in the lab, a young nurse came to do routine blood work. I asked her, \u201cAre you taking a vacation this year?\u201d<\/p>\n She replied, \u201cYes, I am starting my holidays day after tomorrow.\u201d She went on to say that she was leaving on a trip to Dubai to see a friend. I asked her how long the flight was, and she told me that with layovers and flight time, the trip was almost a full 24 hours. I asked her if she liked reading. She said she did.<\/p>\n So I pulled a copy of By This Name<\/a><\/em> from my book bag and said, \u201cI was given a copy of this book several years ago. It\u2019s a book written about the world\u2019s all-time bestseller, the Bible. I liked how it answered some big questions about life. I\u2019ve been giving them to people just like you. It\u2019s about a 15-hour read, a great book for your trip. I hope you like it as much as I did.\u201d<\/p>\n She thanked me, I wished her a good trip and we parted like two ships passing in the night, stopping only long enough for God to allow a transfer of the most important cargo, the good news of God\u2019s amazing grace.<\/p>\n Two years later, my wife and I were back at the cancer clinic for my five-year checkup. The first step in this process is to go for blood work. With 30 people in the waiting room, and a number, what would be the odds that out of the seven technicians that I would end up being tended to by the same girl I had given the book to two years ago?<\/p>\n As she came to my chair I greeted her like I knew her and she looked at me rather strangely, and simply said, \u201cHi.”<\/p>\n I told her, \u201cThe last time I saw you, you were leaving on a trip to Dubai.\u201d<\/p>\n She said, \u201cOh?\u201d but showed no further recollection.<\/p>\n I said to her, \u201cI\u2019m the guy who gave you the book.\u201d<\/p>\n Her eyes opened wide and she said, \u201cIt was you who gave me that book! I just loved it and I gave it to my brother and his wife. They read it, and loved it too. Do you have any other books like that?\u201d<\/p>\n This story is just one example of how opportunities to share the Gospel abound, if only we train ourselves to keep a lookout for them. Going on a vacation is an excellent time to read a book and discover the life-giving message of the Bible. It\u2019s like taking a journey within a journey!<\/p>\n (* All names changed as per GoodSeed policy.)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Photo credit: Hajime Nakano on flickr<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [This post is part of our “Give away the gospe”\u00a0series. Eric* writes from his personal experience.] One day three years after receiving a bone marrow transplant, I was in the cancer clinic for my annual check-up. As I sat in the lab, a young nurse came to do routine blood work. I asked her, \u201cAre … Continue reading “Take a journey within a journey”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,14,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-by-this-name","category-give-away-the-gospel","category-testimonies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodseed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodseed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodseed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodseed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodseed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=589"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodseed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4992,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodseed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589\/revisions\/4992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodseed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodseed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodseed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}