The faithless amongst the faithful

Something rather extraordinary happened at work last Friday. There is a lady who sits over the wall from me, who I chat to perhaps sometimes more than I should. There's a lot more to her than meets the eye (as there usually is) and there's quite a lot of "stuff" in her life (sometimes I just shake my head and wonder how she manages it). One of the things we chat about is writing and poetry, because we both like to dabble in it. She gets more done than me (which wouldn't be very hard), but she also only works part time (at least that is my excuse).

So, last week we were chatting about The Little Red Writing Book and I happened to mention that I was going to a conference at which the author, Mark Tredinnick, was speaking, that being the Faithful Writer conference run by Matthias Media and CASE. At this point she became really quite interested and asked me about the details. I explained that it was a Christian thing, briefly, but she was totally unfazed by that. So then I sent her the link to the conference, which clearly sets out the reasoning and the programme for the day, so that she could look at it, expecting her to become a little less interested. A couple of hours went by, during which I thought she just hadn't got to looking at it yet or had decided it wasn't for her, and then she came around to my desk and showed me her receipt. She'd REGISTERED!! So, now I have a work colleague coming to the Faithful Writer conference with me, and it's not like I was even trying to invite her along. It's weird. But God does weird things.