PROJECT GET ER DONE went live on the net not even 48 hours ago and has 123 hits. that is 123 people that will spark conversations with strangers. this is awesome. and i havent even submitted it to vita.mn or cities pages or put up posters in all my favorite local businesses, i can't wait for this thing to expode all over minneapolis so when a stranger bums a cigg to a person on christmas day they can spark a conversation with a stranger who is a chain smoker and can't afford a cigg and all this person wants for christams is one cigg and someone to talk to becasue they are having a bad day. this chain smoker is having a bad day. and if stranger person never would have bumed ou tthis cigg to cain smoker and sparked a conversation and listened to why chain smoker was having such a bad day, if they never met, chain smoker was going to go home and drink booze, by himself on christams day because his mom just died, his wife left him last week and his only child is i nthe peace corps in africa...aka drinking alone on christmas...aka that is why god sent stranger to talk to chain smoker to make his small wish/pray for getting a cigg (sparking conversation) come true. becasue if stranger never talked to chain smoker...when he drowned his sorrows with booze maybe he got drunk and he need to DRIVE to a gastion drunk and on his way to a gas station he hit a family of people driving home from grandmas house BECAUSE IT IS CHRISTMAS AND THEY ARE CELEBRATING THE BIRTHDAY OF CHRIST OUR SAVIOR. BUT god knew that he could save a minivan full of sisters and brother of christ, on christmas, if he just led stranger to chain smoker, they sparked a conversation. becasue of this connversation chain smoker not only has a cigg to smoke and a new friend from a conversation, but becasue of gods mighty love that brought them together on the 2011 birthday of christ, now chain smoker will never get drunk becasue he is now on his way to an A.A in the basement of grace church becasue stranger doesnt drink, but he smokes ciggs like me, and god saved chain smokers life, and a mini van full of people, all threw helping stranger spark a conversation on a bus. Now instead of that bad situation happening, he is now in the basemnt of a church hanging out with a bunch of sober christians (or soon to be christians) on christmas. He is not alone. Now he has a bunch of sober friends that are heling him, with the help of god, to stay sober and live a healthier life, a life free of drunk driving and drunk accidents that could kill people. And not only are encurigin him to stay sober, but now he has a place to go every wed night at 7:30pm at grace church (hennipen and 28th, minneapolis mn, this is the A.A meeting I go to and these people keep me sober and we chat about god), he also is now going to church with them on sunday and on friday nights he is supporting my favorite cafe by buying coffee (not booze), the nicolette (also a real place on nicolette and franklin) and now he has a sober place to here live music for free while drinking cheap tasty coffee and meeting more fun and interesting people while supporting local business. Now he is supporting local business too. We need to support local businesses/esbalishments/churchs becasue if we didnt we didnt local business would fail and close. If this happened we would all be forced to (this is taking it to the extreme) drink star buck coffee, buy clothes from walmart (dont get me started on walmart), see U2 concerts at the Target center and go to mega churches in blaine (wasting gas to drive there and polluting our earth). So thanks to god and a little conversations chain smoker is now: sober, happy, drinking coffee from the nicoltte cafe (or corner coffee or any other locally owned cafe), buying vintage second hand clothes from Black List Vintage (1st ave and 26th), seeing my band play for free at the Blue Nile (Franklina 20th), and going to A.A meetings in the basement of a local church 2 block from his apartment so he doesnt have to waste money on gas driving to a non local mega church far away in a burb. YAY GOD, YAY STRANGER, YAY CHAIN SMOKER, YAY PUBLIC TRANSPORTION, YAY LOCAL BUSSINESS, YAY NETWORKING AT CAFES, YAY A.A MEETINGS, YAY SPARKING CONVERSATIONS WITH STRANGERS. Sparking a conversation can change someones life or safe someones life, or save them from themselves. But if you never ask that one guy on the bus how he is doing, you would never get the chance to hear what he had to say on a cold Christmas night when he thought he was all alone. No becasue God sent them to one another chain smoker now knows that he will never be alone. Even when he is walking on the street he knows that God is with him holding his hand for the rest of his life - day or night - warm or cold - walking solo or with friends...friends that he now has had for 5 years and he is surrounded by all of them at a Christmas dinner at a homless shelter. He is not homeless though. Instead of drinking alone in his apartement, he decided to spent is 5 year anniversary of being sober, also Christmas day, serving food to homless people on Christmas. So that he can tell a lonely homeless alcoholic that he is not alone...because stranger was almost homeless or dead 5 years ago to the day but becasue of a starnger talkinng to him on a bus he is now spendig his Christmas with his son at home eating food and exchanging gifts. He is standing next to his son serving homeless people dinner telling them that they love them and God loves them and the address to Grace church so that they can go to an A.A meeting and not be homeless next Christmas. And stranger and peace corps son did not exchange gifts this year. They spent that gift money writing a check to the peace corps, a homeless shelter and the humaine society, so that they could help other people and creatures of God enjoy their Christmas in a new way becasue they have food on their table and that cat at the humaine society is alive for Chrsitmas thanks to their donation. So after chain smoker, who no longer smokes, and peace corp son are done volunteering at the homeless shelter, they go to a Christmas church service with chain smokers long time friend, neighbor and current employer, starnger from the bus. The three men have a blast praising God and go to bed and pray for every stranger that they met on the street that day, they go to sleep sober, safe, warm and have sweet dreams about their loved ones whom have past away (like chain smokers mom aka peace corps grandma) and tell them in their dream: "I love you grandma, I am so proud of your son, my father, for the ways he is spreading gods love TO STRANGERS, i love my father so much and am so happy to see him so vibraint. Grandma, I love you I miss you and i know I am talking to you in a dream, but I want you to know that I thank God everyday that I had such a cool grandma and I will see you in heaven when God come to bring me home to see you." Now these three men are all sound asleep in there own beds so if anyone of them did die in their sleep their loved ones could have comfort that he is at peace wherever he is now, the better place. Thank you Jesus and thank you strangers for sparking conversation.
Maybe you are not a smoker, a bus rider, a Christian, maybe today is not Christmas...BUT you are all human. Most of us have the capability to talk. All of us see stranger on the street. So next time you see someone that looks like they are having a bad day, simply approch them and spark a conversation. Becasue we live and we learn. We all lead very different lives and we all make mistakes and learn from them. So you sharing your story about a lesson you learned can help a stranger becasue he or she now has learned a priceless lessson by sparking a conversation with you and they never had to go through the hardship of making the mistake that you made. They also taught you a lesson. Lessons are pricessless, conversations are pricessles, having a stranger is price less and MOENY IS WORTHLESS. You are not paying this person on the street to have a conversation with you and the lesson he or she just taught you is priceless becsaue you can't walk into a store and by a lesson sitting on a shelf. You lerned this lesson from a mistake yuo never had to make when you decided to finally talk to that one person you see everyday at the public library. Lesson = priceless...money=worthless...strangers=hidden gem. I want you to open your hearts minds and souls so that you can see and hear this gem that is sitting next to you at the library. This priceless gem could change your life. Or maybe they are writing an essay and cant talk. Doesn't mean they are not a gem, it just means they are busy. So spark a conversation when you see this same gem at a cafe two days later. Point is you do not have to fall into any certain label or steriotype to spark conversation with strangers. So don't be scared, ask someone how they are, listen, and learn a priceless lesson from a beautiful hidden gem.
Talk, listen, learn, talk to another, listen and not that peron now knows a strangers lesson that you told them. it is a chain rection.
"put out fear and they'll feel fear, it's a chain reaction, put out love and they'll fee love, it's a chain reaction..."
so instead of fearing everone you dont know open your heart and open your mouth, put out that love and let that LOVE spread like a WILD FIRE all becasue you SPARED A CONVERSATION WITH A STRANGER!
Thank you so much for reading this blog. It is free, priceless just like allthe lessons you will learn from people you dont know, but will know if you talk to the.
i love you, god loves you and now go give some love to a stranger.
love always,
hannah
-cloud cult.
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