Rose42 wrote:
There is no such thing as a coincidence. Of that I am certain.
A few years back I went to a auction sale, found something that I wanted; to get it I had to buy
everything from here to there. Since it considered poor manners to leave your junk behind,
I loaded up everything and went home. Amongst the "junk" was a tire and rim for a chevy
pick-up, large 5 bolt pattern, which I had no home for. A few weeks later I was coming home
from work at 2 something AM, when I saw a beat up old chevy pick-up with a very shredded tire
parked in front of a closed Casey's store.
Turned out that the driver had no spare, no cash, and barely enough gas to make the 90 miles home.
I told him that I would be right back and not to worry. Much to his shock I returned with that homeless
tire and rim and helped him put it on. He felt terrible because he had nothing to offer me,
until I told him that the only payment which I would accept was for him to help someone else
someday. He shook my hand and promised that I would be repaid.
All I did that night was to repay a favor that had been done for me, on the same terms, long ago.
Godspeed to the truck driver who planted that seed in my heart so many years past.
I have repaid that debt many times, on those terms, and in so doing warmed my heart many times.
My only hope is that that "favor" will make it around the world some day, and live on longer than I do.
Was that all just coincidence?