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abundance
this morning i drove to work so i’d be able to leave in time to get to my eye appointment in the city. the train comes in just a little too late — it pulls in about when i should be pushing the elevator button downtown. so, driving it is.
i had to stop for gas and wanted coffee so i figured i’d go to a station along 280, but i picked the wrong exit and ended up driving around the suburbs finally finding an easy to enter station just before the place where i could get back on the highway! rock on.
i pulled in and pulled up to the first pump on the third island from the street. as i set things up to pump away, i heard a woman yelling, ‘excuse me!’
she was pretty far away and i couldn’t hear her well, so i didn’t understand that she was yelling at me. finally it sunk in and we shouted across the gas station lot. she asked if i would buy her some ‘food items’. you know, i was going to go in anyhow to buy myself some coffee and a doughnut (knowing full well it was an awful choice of breakfasts), and she wasn’t asking for money, so i agreed.
we met up at the door when my car was finished being filled and i bought her just over $8 worth of chips and drinks and a sammich. she’d asked as we went in about how much i was willing to spend, and asked if she could get ‘a couple’ drinks.
i felt good about being able to share in this way. i’m in a place right now where i *can* do this and there have been times in my life when i wasn’t. just six years ago i stopped drinking much beyond water because it was too expensive, and stopping for a cup of coffee was luxurious to say the least (that was when mom started sending me *$’s cards so i could treat myself — for which i am still grateful). now that i’m living in abundnce, why not share it? i would have felt very different about the exchange if she’d asked for cash, and would have refused.
it was a nice way to start the day. we should all be reminded of just how much we really have and how easy it is to help others and make a connection. it was a nice gift she gave me.