Something brief and very random, but something that I feel I should share with the world about my personal growth.
The last time I lost my phone, (which was at college) I remember throwing this HUGE fit. I was crying, digging outside in the snow for hours, and getting really impatient with the fact that my lifeline was no longer attached to my hip. I was rather pathetic.
Today, I lost my phone again...but instead of having my blood pressure raised over it, I have been calmly retracing my steps. I didn't break a sweat, and told myself that I could always get a new one, and that the important contacts that I needed in my phone would not be hard to get again. Besides, I need a new phone/plan anyway, so why not now?
My mom facebooks (I love how this is a verb now) me and tells me that a girl calls her saying that she has my phone, so now I am just waiting to be united with it once again.
The moral of the story...in my journey, I have really learned to just let things happen and if things go wrong in my eyes, I know God's always got my back. Even if it is just losing a cell phone. It's material. I can get a new one. It's not my lifeline. It's not as important anymore.
God really worked on my heart in so many ways, and tonight was just Him showing me how I have changed. Nice assurance.
As I wrote this, the girl came into Duos and gave me my phone back. She said "If I ever lost my phone, I would hope that someone would go out of their way to return it to me." I was touched, and she looked like she was only 16. How wonderful of a reminder it was to live a recent version of "The Good Samaritan."
How can you be a Good Samaritan and go out of your way for others? Do unto others as you would want to have done unto you.
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