Thank you!

It was a tough morning. One of my kids needed something and I drove 50 miles to take it to them. Trying to help out. Bought lunch. Ended with being yelled at–again.

Driving home, I was pleading to God to bring someone who gave a damn that I exist, across my path. I stopped at a Circle-K on the way home. A random woman walking out of the store actually engaged me in a polite greeting.

My wife passed 11 years ago. All of our friends have abandoned me, because I am the third wheel. There are so few social events where one can meet a proper, godly woman. Even churches segregate men and women after college age.

I cannot remember the last time a lady, who was not a server, store clerk, in a social setting where she had to be polite, church, or at the DMV, initiated a conversation with me.

Thank you so very much. You will not ever, on this side of eternity, know what your kind greeting meant to me. I’ve felt invisible for so many years. People look right through me as I am not there and pass me by without any acknowledgment of my existence–even if I greet them, many just walk by. But without any prompting, you greeted me. I may never see you again, but I am grateful.

How just a simple, polite greeting can change one’s day. My soul was parched for anyone to acknowledge me. Your words were that cup of cold water I needed.

May God richly bless and reword you for stepping out of your comfort zone to say hi.

MT 10:42
And whosoever shall give to drink unto one of these little ones a cup of cold water only in the name of a disciple, verily I say unto you, he shall in no wise lose his reward.

Proverbs 16:24
Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones.

Job 4:4
Your words have helped the tottering to stand,
And you have strengthened feeble knees.

Prov 31:26
She opens her mouth in wisdom, And the teaching of kindness is on her tongue.

Prov 12:25
Anxiety in a man’s heart weighs it down, But a good word makes it glad.

MT 25:34-40
34 Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: 35 For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in: 36 Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me. 37 Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink? 38 When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee? 39 Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee? 40 And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.