[guide.chat] friendship prayer
- From: "harold kitching" <harold.kitching01@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "guide chat" <guide.chat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2012 14:42:34 +0100
: Friendship prayer : WHAT COMES AROUND, GOES AROUND...
WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND... One day a man
saw an old lady, stranded on the side of the road, but even in the dim light of
day, he could see she needed help. So he pulled up in front of her Mercedes and
got out. His Pontiac was still sputtering when he approached her.
Even with the smile on his face, she looked
worried. No one had stopped to help for the last hour or so. Was he going to
hurt her? He didn't look safe; he looked poor and hungry.
He could see that she was frightened, standing
out there in the cold. He knew how she felt. It was that chill which only fear
can put in you.
He said, 'I'm here to help you, ma'am. Why don't
you wait in the car where it's warm? By the way, my name is Bryan Anderson.'
Well, all she had was a flat tire, but for an old
lady, that was bad enough. Bryan crawled under the car looking for a place to
put the jack, skinning his knuckles a time or two. Soon he was able to change
the tire. But he had to get dirty and his hands hurt.
As he was tightening up the lug nuts, she rolled
down the window and began to talk to him. She told him that she was from St.
Louis and was only just passing through. She couldn't thank him enough for
coming to her aid.
Bryan just smiled as he closed her trunk. The
lady asked how much she owed him. Any amount would have been all right with
her. She already imagined all the awful things that could have happened had he
not stopped. Bryan never thought twice about being paid. This was not a job to
him. This was helping someone in need, and God knows there were plenty, who had
given him a hand in the past. He had lived his whole life that way, and it
never occurred to him to act any other way.
He told her that if she really wanted to pay him
back, the next time she saw someone who needed help, she could give that person
the assistance they needed, and Bryan added, 'And think of me.'
He waited until she started her car and drove
off. It had been a cold and depressing day, but he felt good as he headed for
home, disappearing into the twilight.
A few miles down the road the lady saw a small
cafe. She went in to grab a bite to eat, and take the chill off before she made
the last leg of her trip home. It was a dingy looking restaurant. Outside were
two old gas pumps. The whole scene was unfamiliar to her. The waitress came
over and brought a clean towel to wipe her wet hair. She had a sweet smile, one
that even being on her feet for the whole day couldn't erase. The lady noticed
the waitress was nearly eight months pregnant, but she never let the strain and
aches change her attitude. The old lady wondered how someone who had so little
could be so giving to a stranger. Then she remembered Bryan ..
After the lady finished her meal, she paid with a
hundred dollar bill. The waitress quickly went to get change for her hundred
dollar bill, but the old lady had slipped right out the door. She was gone by
the time the waitress came back. The waitress wondered where the lady could be.
Then she noticed something written on the napkin.
There were tears in her eyes when she read what
the lady wrote: 'You don't owe me anything. I have been there too. Somebody
once helped me out, the way I'm helping you. If you really want to pay me back,
here is what you do: Do not let this chain of love end with you.'
Under the napkin were four more $100.
Well, there were tables to clear, sugar bowls to
fill, and people to serve, but the waitress made it through another day. That
night when she got home from work and climbed into bed, she was thinking about
the money and what the lady had written. How could the lady have known how much
she and her husband needed it? With the baby due next month, it was going to be
hard....
She knew how worried her husband was, and as he
lay sleeping next to her, she gave him a soft kiss and whispered soft and low,
'Everything's going to be all right. I love you, Bryan Anderson.':)
There is an old saying... 'What goes around comes
around.' Today I send you this story, and I'm asking you to pass it on. Let
this light shine. God works in mysterious ways andsometimes puts people in our
lives for a reason.
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