Prophetic Words?

Alright, so the other day I am at Menard's working and I see this guy looking around at different lights. So, as we are trained to do, I asked if he needed any help. He responded to me that he was just looking at more lights since he and his wife just purchased a couple of lights earlier in the week.

So with that I went about my business. Until...

A few minutes later he stops me and says,

"Happy new year."

"Thanks" I responded

Then he goes on to say

"It is your year to be blessed. In 2008 you are just going to be so blessed, Josh [This use of my name by a stranger might have been amazing but I saw him look at my name tag]. So just start thanking God ahead of time because right now he is going to bless you in more ways then you could imagine. God is standing right here in front of you so start thanking him now."

Unsure of what just happened I simply again said "Ok, Thanks" then smiled and walked away.

And that was that.

So I went back to stocking but I was now deep in thought.

My first thought was... I wonder if that was actually for me? Was it prophetic? Was that guy an angel (probably not but maybe).

But really just maybe he says that message to everyone. Like a fortune cookie message: General enough to use on anyone, and essentially something that everyone like to hear so everyone wants to claim it as their own.

So I decided I would try and find the man and ask him if that message was just for me or something he told everyone.

But I never found him.

So first I talked to my "wise old" friend/mentor :) about it. And he said he would ask similar questions about the message. Yet, it doesn't hurt you either way. "At best" said my friend, "the message is a specific word for you and then you will be blessed" and "At worst, you praise God for blessing you even though you seemingly won't have a super blessed year". I agreed with that thought but it still didn't mean I wants curious about the man and the message.

He seemed to be a nice guy. No loon. He was genuinely happy and seemed convicted about his message (so that checked out ok). But I still didn't know if he told everyone the same message.

So then I went home and told Catie about it. She was convinced that it probably was a message just for me. But either way she said it didn't matter.

Never the less I was not satisfied with those responses.

The next day I told my co-worker the story and she said that the man was the husband for a Menard's walker (like a mall walker) and he had said the same thing to her and even started the conversation with "Happy New Year".

I was kind of bummed.

So I still don't know what to do with the message for being blessed. I know I will have blessings this year. I am going to have another child so that is a blessing in itself. But really, what do I do with a general message given by a guy I don't know how gives then exact same message to many different people?

I tell you what I should have done/should do.... pray about it. I seem to do that last a lot of times (bad idea).

But anyways, I know as a general idea that God loves to be praised and I know as a general rule that I don't thank God enough so really there is nothing to lose.

Yet, I still don't know what I think about Christians spreading a fortune cookie messages. It works well but it is kind of a bummer when you find out that he says it to everyone.

Any thoughts?