Meeting D

Ever meet a person that you realize right away has the potential of a huge part of your life?
For me that would be my small group leader D! a little background: I have been at a new church FOR EXACTLY A YEAR NOW!**** When we first started attending this new church we signed up for a small group in our town of woodland which failed after a few months. (For details please click HERE). Well my chronic neuroticism had me contemplating all the negative thoughts about searching for and joining a new group. I hated the fact that I had to start all over again and try to warm up to complete strangers based on the one thing that we have in common, our faith!
The first time I met our group leader D I thought, “This guy is cool as ish!” He is a great leader, humble, down to earth, loquacious, inspirational, funny, compassionate and genuine. On the first day we stuck around and just started talking to him, asking questions and just engaging in conversation. We have been doing that almost every week, just sticking around after group to talk to D.
Today he dropped me a message on facebook just to see how I’m doing. To me this is huge especially coming from a church where the only time I talked to my pastor was to hear a complaint. I’m glad to be part of a group where the leader wholeheartedly cares about his small group members.
I’m not sure if D will be a big part of my life (perhaps the mentor relationship that I have needed for so long) but as for now he seems to me like a cool guy who genuinely cares and I really do appreciate that.