Out and About

 

I hope you are having a wonderful weekend. It has been lovely here. The weather is just perfect.
I had one of those days this week at the grocery store. I keep thinking about it so I thought I would share it with you. Have your read those stories where adversity makes people rise above themselves and do great things for their fellow man? That isn't me. Trials make me draw into myself, and shut the blinds and keep people at arms length.

I don't know if maybe not being to see made me miss signals that people give off but now that I can see, I see things that I didn't notice before.

 

I was going to the grocery store and there was a woman struggling to get a shopping cart. I asked her if I could help her and she said, " No she could handle it." So I waited as she then struggled to get her walker in the basket. I stepped forward and held the basket as she finally managed to get it in the cart. Then again she struggled to move the shopping cart towards the automatic doors. I was afraid she was going to fall down, so I helped her just a little bit as she finally got in the store. I went out grabbed my basket and started in myself. She was waiting for me and grabbed me and hugged me. She then said, " Thank you so much people don't help people anymore and this is my first time out by myself after surgery."  "I told her that I was getting groceries and I would keep my eyes open and if she needed any more help, I would help her." She said thank you and I went on my way.

 

As I went zooming along trying to get stuff done so I could get out of the store and get back home. I could hear one of the shopping carts that you can ride in and it was making that sound of a truck when it backs up. It tickled me to know that. As I made it down the pet aisle the gentleman riding the grocery cart with the  back up noise was sitting right where the brand of cat food I buy was located. I stood off to one side and the gentleman was getting his cat food.

He looked at me sideways and asked"  if I had a cat?" I said, "yes, too many cats and he told me his cat was 20 years old. "  I grabbed my cat food and he said rather wistfully, " Was I very busy today? " I stopped, and I looked at him, and said, " No, not very busy do you need me to get you something?" He began telling me about going to his eye doctor and how he had a cataract in his eye and how he couldn't see at all."

I was shocked that God had given me this opportunity. We talked and I told him of my experience. He kept asking me questions and I kept answering them. He said, " They are just waiting for me to die because the eye doctor told me I was too old to have surgery." I told him the name of my doctor and that I had seen lots of people lots older than him in the office."

 

About then he says, " I want to show you something. He starts fumbling with his pants. Like below the belt part. I started to panic to myself and started praying " Oh God, help me here, please God don't let me see anything." I started backing up so slowly as to make a run for it. You know how old gentlemen of certain age sometimes like to show you things you don't want to see? Or is it just me? Well anyway, he says " Look right here, and I looked. What he had was a rope and it was tied so tight around his hips, I mean tight in a knot. I said, " Gosh what is that? " He said, " I have a hernia and the doctor won't send me to the hospital to get it fixed. and he said I have a second one in my belly button."  I gasped, " Does it hurt?"

He said, " It hurts like hell sometimes I can hardly stand it." He showed me his swollen ankles because his heart doesn't beat hard enough, but he told me he lives in the mountains and has been drinking mistletoe tea  for that and it was really helping. My phone rang and he went on his way and I went on mine.

 

I have continued to think about him. He was a sweet man. He had a accent and as I thought about him I think it was Swiss. I continue to be amazed how nice it is to have divine appointments again. I am so glad that I can see how God can take my life experiences and use them to bring comfort to others. I am glad that even though my list of things I thought were important that I thought needed to be done that day, I am glad I stopped just for a little while.

 

Thank you for reading along today, I know this is pretty wordy. I guess it made me happy to see that Romans 8:28 continues to work in my life, even when I least expect it.
Have a wonderful day,
~Kim~

 

"And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose."