I looked over and saw her, sitting at the table, eyes glued to her computer screen and focused on what she was working on.
I felt that nudge inside to talk to her, but I was doing my best to talk myself out of it. “She looks busy,” I thought. “And how would I start a conversation?”
I sat in that coffee shop, knowing that I wanted to share the gospel with this girl and take an ordinary conversation and make it a divine one. Then I remembered what I had talked with a friend about a few days earlier. She had suggested interviewing people as a way to start conversations.
I grabbed my pen and notebook, wrote down a few questions, walked over to the table, and began talking to the girl, who introduced herself as Leela*.
The conversation felt so natural, and it brought me joy being able to get to know her story. As it turns out, Leela became a believer in college.
One conversation led to another and another, and now I’d consider Leela one of my best friends in South Asia.