收到一支玫瑰花以及Angels Among Us

送花的是位卖花的墨西哥老人，一句英文不会，每次回家的路上见到他，我总是打开车窗给他一个微笑。周5，他特意从花桶里拿出一支玫瑰送我，遗憾，当时没有现金，否则会掏钱买一束的。

一路上很感动，想到看过的这篇文章：

Angels Among Us

He was driving home from a meeting this evening about 5, stuck in traffic on Colorado Blvd., and the car started to choke and splutter and die -

Jim barely managed to coast, cursing, into a gas station, glad only that he would not be blocking traffic and would have a somewhat warm spot to wait for the tow truck. The engine wouldn’t even turn over. Before he could make the call, Jim saw a woman walking out of the “quickie mart” building, and it looked like she slipped on some ice and fell into a gas pump, so Jim got out to see if she was okay. When he got there, it looked more like she had been overcome by sobs than that she had fallen; she was a young woman who looked really haggard with dark circles under her eyes. She dropped something as Jim helped her up, and he picked it up to give it to her. It was a nickel

At that moment, everything came into focus for Jim: the crying woman, the ancient Suburban crammed full of stuff with 3 kids in the back (1 in a car seat), and the gas pump reading $4.95. He asked her if she was okay and if she needed help, and she just kept saying “I don’t want my kids to see me crying,” so they stood on the other side of the pump from her car. She said she was driving to California that things were very hard for her rightnow. So Jim asked, “And you were praying?” That made her back away from him a little but Jim assured her the he was not a crazy person and said, “He heard you, and He sent me.”

Jim took out his card and swiped it through the card reader on the pump so she could fill up her car completely, and while it was fueling walked to the next door McDonald’s and bought 2 big bags of food, some gift certificates for more, and a big cup of coffee. She gave the food to the kids in the car who attacked it like wolves, and they stood by the pump eating fries and talking a little. She told me her name, and that she lived in Kansas City. Her boyfriend left 2 months ago and she had not been able to make ends meet.


She knew she wouldn’t have money to pay rent Jan 1, and finally in desperation had finally called her parents, with whom she had not spoken in about 5 years. They lived in California and said she could come live with them and try to get on her feet there. So she packed up everything she owned in the car. She told the kids they were going to California for Christmas, but not that they were going to live there.

Jim gave her his gloves, a little hug and said a quick prayer with her for safety on the road. As he was walking over to his car, she said, “So, are you like an angel or something?” This definitely made him cry. He said, “Sweetie, at this time of year angels are really busy, so sometimes God uses regular people.” It was so incredible to be a part of someone else’s miracle. And of course, you guessed it, when Jim got in his car it started right away and got him home with no problem.

Sometimes the angels fly close enough to you that you can hear the flutter
of their wings