Truth be Told...

Ok, tomorrow is a pretty big day for me. I start my first semester of Arabic school!! Wow weeee. This semester is the first of four, and when I complete the school, I will have been in Jordan for about 3 years. It's an overwhelmingly AMAZING thought to me. I sometimes just stand in awe....it's awfully funny to me the places God puts us in sometimes! The places we least expect, the places we think don't fit who we are, the places that may not be the easiest...but that are truly the BEST and the most AWESOME for us. Really cool.

I could go on about my thoughts on all that, BUT i wanted to tell you a story about something that happened this weekend that kind of rocked my world..

It was Saturday, just flew in to the country two days earlier. Jet lagged, and lacking in groceries, I went to the local store to buy some fruit, vegetables, etc. Instead of bringing my wallet, I stuck 15 JD (Jordan Dinar, about $21 USD) in my left pocket. Got my stuff, went up to the register to pay. Went to get my money out of my pocket, and it wasn't there. Amy was with me too, and she didn't have it. And it wasn't in my other pocket. I thought I had either dropped it or...someone had stolen it. AHHH! But then when I thought all was lost, one of the guys behind the counter said something to me in Arabic, which of course i didnt really understand. So then He said something else and....VOILA! He held up my money! He had found it on the floor, picked it up, and RETURNED IT TO ME. I was in shock when I left. He could have kept it, never said a word, or someone else could have found it and done the same. But he chose honesty. WOW.

It may have been a little moment in time, but it showed me that some of my stereotypes of Arabs are very wrong, to be honest. And it showed me that I can still believe that people can choose to do the right thing, and people still do. Pretty cool :)