being showed up

i hate it when GOD puts me in my place. tonight i wanted to steal an idea from doug pagitt and solomon's porch and have a group discussion on the scripture that we will use for next wednesday's view service. solomon's porch does this each week and they call it bdg. i liked the idea and thought it would work well with the personality of our group. i announced it last night after "the view" and hoped that a person or two would show up since i had not mentioned it before. the plan was to discuss the book of jonah and together figure out some of what GOD wants to say to us from the story.

the problem is that this morning i was asked if i could provide a ride to the group. it was a person that i really thought would be a lag on the conversation. i wasn't expecting much from this individual and wasn't really excited about being "stuck" taking him there and back. i don't know why i'm so stupid. i should have learned from past experience not to underestimate people. hopefully i have learned my lesson this time because the comments my friend added to the conversation were incredible. if anyone was a "lag" on the conversation it was me. my friend was amazing. i'm not sure that i've ever understood jonah until now. how can i be so consistently stupid?