― Henri Nouwen
Yesterday, I
was reminded of just how fragile life can be and how precious friendship
is. After meeting another mom for
yogurt, I was driving home with my children when I was involved in a fender
bender. No one was injured, thank
goodness, but I was shaken up. I called the
friend who had just been with me and she came back and stayed for an hour while
the paperwork was done. She entertained
my children and made me feel a whole lot better. When it was time to go, the fender that fell
off my car surprisingly did not fit in the back of my car, so she put it in her
van. Later that evening, she texted me
to say that she had just gone out to her car and seen my fender again. It made her smile because earlier when she
had told her husband that I had been in an accident and that she was going to
where I was, he asked her, "How do you plan on helping?" She said she was going to offer moral support
-- a gift of kindness that was just what I needed. But as it turns out, I needed her van, too.
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