Unexpected touch of kindness
Had an unexpected bout of kindness touch me as I was driving to work.
I was running late today (as if you can call being in the car at 7:30 a.m. late) and waiting at a light when my phone rang. It was one of my current colleagues whom I’d known at my previous job.
She said she was on 95 and saw a car just like mine on the side of the road. She wondered if it were me, if I were OK and if she could give me a ride to work.
As I was at the light right before I turned onto 95 myself, obviously I was OK. But I was just so overwhelmed with love right at that moment — that someone cared so much about me to want to help, if I needed it.
It meant the world to me.
I saw her later as I was talking to one of my friends in the courtyard. I was kind of stressed out during the conversation. I saw my friend walk toward me, and I smiled at her. She smiled back and put her hand on my shoulder and kept walking.
I felt healed in some way. I really did. It dawned on me that she probably knows a lot more about me than I might believe, and that she understood me right at that moment more than anyone else in the world ever could.
When we worked together the last time around, I was convinced she didn’t like me and/or thought I was an idiot. But we had connected — I mean really connected — last Friday night, and I realized I had an ally on my side all along. We both just tend to keep a wall around ourselves in the professional environment, and we realized we think the same things and feel the same ways about things that we otherwise wouldn’t even talk about.
Anyway, it felt good to be “gotten” today. That someone out there quietly has my back. That I don’t have to stick to so-called friends when there are genuine people out there in the world who like me just fine the way I am and don’t go out of their way to drag me down to the level where they insist on living their lives.
Thank you, God. I felt Your presence today. I needed that. Bless her wonderful, wonderful heart.