The Gift of Mingling
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Some people can walk into a room full of strangers and leave with six new friends, three phone numbers, and an invitation to somebody’s family reunion.
Then there are the rest of us. 😄
In this episode of Scattered Moments, Matt confesses that while he’s perfectly comfortable speaking to a room full of people, put him in a barber’s chair and he can exhaust his entire supply of small talk before the cape is fastened.
Fortunately, he married a professional mingler.
From Darlene talking her way out of his speeding tickets to inviting a timeshare salesman to church, this humorous reflection explores the strange differences in the ways we connect with people—and the danger of allowing our personality to become an excuse for keeping others at a distance.
Jesus continually noticed the person others overlooked. His conversations were often simple, spontaneous, and ordinary—and sometimes those ordinary conversations became life-changing encounters with grace.
Maybe loving our neighbor doesn’t require becoming an extrovert. Maybe it begins with something much smaller: noticing someone, asking a question, listening to the answer, and being willing to enter a moment we didn’t plan.
Even when that person happens to be writing us a parking ticket.
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