At ACW today at UIC, I happen to sit down with an older Indian man and started having a conversation with him. It turned out that he was the father of the worship leader, and drove to UIC to support his son. We had a good introductory chat, though tbh I was slightly awkward and kind of broke away from him. Somehow I also won the extreme rock paper scissors game in a room about 100 (felt really weird having them all chant my name; I also only played rock the entire time), and the father rushed over to give me a strong handshake to congratulate me.

After ACW he found me and we started talking again. I asked him the question "how did you become a Christian?" I replied that it was a curious thing, since he grew up in an Indian Christian family, but he was an atheist. After his father died, he did everything he could to erase God from his life, going as far as to marry a Hindu woman. Turns out God wasn't done with him, and brought his wife to Christ. After that it was a losing battle and he turned back to God, along with his son and daughter.

He looked me in the eye and asked me a question, "after everything that has happened in your life, can you deny that God is in control?" It was like he was reading my mind, and I could only nod in reply. He followed up with, "everything that happened to me defied logic! Nothing made sense! That is how you know that God is real."

It was by God's grace that I was born. This miracle defied all scientific reasoning, and my mom's decision to keep me defied all logic.

After everything that happened to me in high school and college, any other person would have fallen away from faith. Anyone and everyone. I tried really hard to run away from God, even to go as far as hating Him and blaming Him for everything. Yet no matter how far I ran, He still found me. Where shall I go from your Spirit?
 
Where shall I go from your Spirit?
    Or where shall I flee from your presence? 
  If I ascend to heaven, you are there!
    If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there!

After sharing his brief testimony, he gave me his business card and asked me to call him so he can share the rest of story, as well as his son's testimony. Needless to say that I was very blessed by the conversation, and really saw how the power of the Gospel and God's Spirit working in the students and student groups at UIC.