Day 121j: When the Light came in the night … (August 28, 2019)
And onward & onward I walked, past the St. James United Methodist Church in Marriotts Ridge (with its bold sign proclaiming quite correctly that we have all been “Sent forth to LOVE”) as the sun began to set. I plodded on into the darkness for what seemed like a small slice of eternity – first on State Highway 99 and then its sister State Highway 97 – looking for anywhere to lay my head down for the night. I stopped to rest at a long-since closed Dunkin Donuts shop and was wondering whether I should simply stay put and hunker down there for the night or plod on into the night when Ivan drove by and asked me if I was OK. I told him what I was up to and that everything was indeed AOK, whereupon he told me stay put for a few minutes and drove off speedily (“I’ll be back … I promise.”). I frankly wasn’t really planning on going anywhere anyway, so I easily sat down on one of the store’s patio chairs and waited for him to return. And return he most certainly did, with a bottle of ice cold water and an ice cold Coca-Cola to boot. And then he wished me well, this latest in along series of serendipitous angels, and departed into the darkness as quickly has he had arrived …
“To the world you might well be only one person, and yet to one person, you can easily become the whole world. Kindness is the golden chain by which we are all intertwined and in which the entire world is encompassed. Remember this today … and Be Kind.” ~ via Goethe
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