I’ve hinted, referred, and obliquely referenced various matters, most recently just the other day when I said I’m taking a break from blogging. I’m trying! But in keeping with my “good gossip” policy (in which I repeat anything nice said about a person, especially to the person himself) I do want to comment on one really nice thing that happened this evening:
No less than fourteen! people in the hospital parking lot asked if they could help me tonight as I was changing my tire. Mind you, this is in a space of maybe forty minutes. (My spare was flat, too. Yes, I know… brilliant! I had to wait for my husband to bring me another tire.) No sooner would one get out of sight before another would approach. I get pretty cynical sometimes, but somehow when things are really bad, when I’m quite tired and emotionally wrung-out, it seems like God will send me some encouragement. There’s a lot to be thankful for, starting with the number of really decent, thoughtful people who have better things to do than stay outside on a steamy New Orleans July evening getting their hands dirty… yet offer to do so anyway.
Faith, Increased
By on July 23, 2009 2 Comments
Gotta love people.
I’d just bought my first car and was driving “around” Keesler AFB– I think I was in one of the use-to-be small towns that melted into Biloxi– on the freeway and hit a screwdriver.
BOOM!
Sunday afternoon, I have NO idea where I am. I manage to get off the freeway without hurting myself, right past a park, take the first right, stop to check it out. Tire’s flat as my joke telling.
And then the Church down the road lets out.
I had half a dozen older gentlemen in suits over there helping me inside of ten minutes, while their nicely dressed ladies fluttered at me and thanked me for my “service”.
I’d been in the navy for less than a year and a half, at that point, and all of it school– also felt horribly under dressed, in blue jeans and a t-shirt, but they never let it on it was bad at all.
They also didn’t comment on the Rosary on my rear view mirror, although I’m pretty sure they were Baptists.
God bless folks. People can be so good, sometimes.
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Good to know you’ll be on to spread nice news. Wish more journalists would follow your lead.