You never know how or why God will place certain people into your life. My freshman year of college, I ran with a pretty close-knit group of friends. We’d go to parties together, hang out at the local malls, attend various events on campus and even formed an intramural softball team.

One night, after attending a party on campus, Devin (a girl in our group), had one too many drinks. I’d left the party before most of my friends and was back in my dorm room listening to music and talking to my boyfriend when someone knocked on my door and told me that Devin was lying out in the quad, stinking drunk.

Well, this was the month of November and if you’re from the midwest, you’re kinda used to snow being on the ground……which it was. So I said to the person who’d knocked on my door, “Devin’s lying in the quad? And you just left her there?” The person replied, “She’s grown and not my responsibility.”

I could not understand how one could be so concerned to knock on someone else’s door to tell them about a friend who was lying in the snow drunk, and not do something yourself? So after hearing that bit of news, my boyfriend and I left my dorm to help Devin. And when I said she was drunk, I mean she was drunker than a skunk.

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