Close encounters of the friendly kind

Today, because it was a glorious cool morning I decided to walk to my regular Tuesday morning tutoring session. It's a one mile walk and very pleasant.  When I got to her apartment I found my student outside waiting for me. so we sat on a bench for a while enjoying the sunshine. As we were talking a gaggle of cute highschool age girls walked by and one of them challenged me to a game of "rock, paper, scissors." I won three out of four rounds and she gave me a 'play it forward' card. I suspected it was some kind of church group but nothing more was said and they went cheerily on their way.  After the tutoring sesssion I walked home through a park that is on the way to my place. It was very quiet and shady and the ducks were having fun in the fountain pool, so I decided to sit on a bench and enjoy the day. It's something I can do since I'm retired. While I was sitting there, two attractive high school age girls walked up and asked if they could share my bench. They started chatting very pleasantly and we had a great conversation. It turned out that they were with the same church group that I had gotten the card from earlier and they were downtown doing some mission prohects. I'm not sure what they thought when they first sat down. Maybe they thought I was a homeless person?  We discovered that they go to the same highschool as two of my grandchildren and generally had a good fun conversation after which one of the young ladies asked if she could pray for me. Of course I said yes, assuming she meant later in her devotions or something. Nope, She had us stand up and hold hands right there in the park. She proceeded to pray for a good five minutes. I think this girl has the makings of a fine preacher some day. All in all it was a lovely, blessed interlude on a Tuesday morning. I'm so glad I decided to walk today.