Someone is looking out for us
July 20th, 2010 (01:00 am)Imagine that you have to fly somewhere for a very important business meeting. This is the kind of meeting that you know with absolute certainty will change your life. The only problem is that you just paid all your bills and you have all of $150 in your checking account. You had to wait until you got paid the Friday before your meeting so it was going to be a last minute flight. The day you get paid, (which by the way was far less then what you expected) you try your hardest to book a ticket, but all of the last minute tickets are over $500. You know you have to go to this meeting and the idea of driving half way around the country is something that had crossed your mind, but frankly it scares you. Partly because you can’t drive more than four hours without falling asleep and the other reason is that speeding tickets attract you like the plague.
Now you are driving around doing a variety of errands and you realize that you have no gas in your car. So you pump a little gas with the money you have left in your wallet before you get paid again in five days when a mysterious call rings on your cell phone. You answer it and it is a woman that you have not spoken with in six years. She used to be a part of your networking group many years ago and a former customer of your insurance agency. She called you because she was looking for an insurance question and thought that you might lead her in the right direction. So, after a few pleasantries, you ask her what she is doing now. She had mentioned to you that she sold her accounting practice and working part-time for a local airline doing customer service. After telling her about your plane ticket dilemma and about your up-coming cross-country drive, you finish your conversation and promise to get together to catch up over coffee sometime.
Ten minutes later your cell phone rings just you are dropping you daughter off at one of her summer camps for the afternoon and it is the same woman you just spoke with just ten minutes ago. She asks you what time exactly you needed to be in Atlanta and you tell her between 10am-12pm. She says to you, “How about 11:07am?” After a little confusion as to what she was talking about she told you that she had just started with a new airline and one of the perks is that she has 15 buddy passes to use each year. Since it was her first time booking a ticket using her employee intranet, that she wanted to try her first one on you to see if it worked. She then went on to tell you that the ticket (last minute) would be $59 one way and total of $118 round trip using her buddy ticket.
In a state of euphoria, you give her your credit card number and book the ticket. How is this possible? How can you go from a state of panic that you would have to drive across the country to attend a critical business meeting because you can’t afford a last minute plane ticket, to a freak conversation with a person whom you have not spoken with for six years who just happens have just started work for a local airline? Then she calls you back after your initial conversation to offer you one of her buddy tickets for a price that would be impossible for anyone to get who does not work for an airline. Within 15 minutes you can now go to your meeting and still have enough to take a friend out to lunch.
I tell you this because it is a true story. Sometimes in life, angels are looking out for you. You always have to believe and have faith that everything will work out. It doesn’t always work out in your favor, but you have to keep believing. Eventually, someone will listen and put people in your life to move you forward. This is just one amazing example of how the right people are put into your life at the right time to help you. I don’t believe in luck. I think people make their own luck. In this case, however, maybe I should buy a lottery ticket!
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