LindaBforbabies wrote:Ladies, please share on here with a random act of kindness you have done for a complete stranger in the last little while...
I will mail out a brand new outfit...might be nwot ... I will give you a few days before randomly drawing a winner.... can you please add a number to your post... hugs
How sweet of you to do this!
Here's mine:
Me and my friend Shawn (a woman not a man lol), we were out on Saturday afternoon, it has now been 3 weekends ago. We were driving through the parking lot and Shawn saw a lady who looked to be in trouble, she was behind her car kneeling on the ground, face all red and contorted, and we just didn't know what was going on, thought maybe she was having a heart attack or who knows what.
I jumped from the car while Shawn found a place to park, ran to the lady who was making this pitiful sound, like screaming but not, I don't know, and I asked her what's wrong, what's wrong and was she having a medical emergency and what could we do to help her. She was crying so much and it was hard to understand her but we sat there on the ground and talked for a while, she told me she was ok but that she had pulled over into this parking lot because she just got a call from her husband and her son John who is 22 and in college in Charlottesville, VA (we were in Frederick, MD); that he had been in a car accident and was in an induced coma and on life support and that was all her husband knew.
By this time Shawn was there too, and we all three were sitting on the ground by her car and she told us she had her 5 year old in the car and had been taking her to the pediatrician because her daughter was sick. Mainly she was shaking, crying, very upset as anyone would be and I can't even imagine.
She told me and Shawn that it was ok, she would be ok, and that we should go because she was a stranger and we didn't even know her. I told her no way we were leaving her and her daughter like this, and that stranger or no we are all God's children and brothers and sisters in Christ. She started crying again and said she didn't know what to do. So we sat there for a few moments and I said how about we pray, can I pray for your son; and she said yes. And so the 3 of us sat on the ground and me and Shawn both had our arms around this woman, and I just started praying out loud. Don't even know all I said and it was heart wrenching and all 3 of us were crying because the lady was interjecting in prayer and kept saying things like please Jesus, don't take my son and then, if you take my son please take good care of him and then just crying and it was just so horrible and the entire situation has really had an impact on me ever since and I can't stop thinking about what happened to her son.
The lady, her name is Amber, we stayed there for the longest time, her daughter too, just praying. Lots of people drove by but no one stopped or anything even though I know we all must have looked like quite a spectacle. Amber said she was ok to go but didn't know what to do or where she will go and I think she obviously just wasn't thinking straight. So she called her husband back and I talked to him and we made arrangements to drive rest of way to pediatrician's office and the husband would drive there. Amber, she insisted she would be ok but me and Shawn were still worried so we drove behind and followed her. Once at the doctor's office and safely inside we left her. I gave her my phone number before I left and told her I would be keeping her son and her family in prayer and she said that she would call me.
She never did. And that is ok and I understand. But I can't stop thinking about it and wondering what happened and how her son is doing. All I know, he was in Charlottesville VA, his name was John, her name was Amber, and she had another son called Grant. Never found out the husband's name or anything else. I wish I could know what happened but regardless, I have been praying everyday for John, and for all of Amber and her family.
Just a huge impact this has had on me and there is so much we forget about and take for granted in life, and we fight with friends and family over pretty stupid things when it all comes down to it. Life is so precious and this has certainly made me remember that and to be thankful for all God has blessed us with.
Each and every little thing, each act of kindness and caring, and just like you giving away this outfit when you don't have to do that... it's things like all of this that get me and I'm sure all of us through the day to day in a world which seems so filled with nastiness, selfishness, dislike and sometimes even hate people have for each other. And reminds me that there is still much GOOD left in this world, and even though seems it's only the bad we always hear about, there is still much good, and many caring and kind people.
all i had was $20 and i really could not come back to that light so i fold the money and have it to him, I saw him opening the money and waving at me with a huge smile in on his face. He made my day 100 times better!
