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CelticRoz  |
Posted: 09-Jan-2007, 04:03 PM
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Roz
Group: Celtic Nation
Posts: 6,930
Joined: 09-Nov-2003
Zodiac: Alder
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I tried to be a good soul today. While out running errands, I saw to large mixed breed stray dogs running lose. since I can't handle seeing stray animals out on the loose, I tried catching and trapping these dogs on my own (very stupid idea, really). Needless to say, they would not come near me or any other human, so wondering if they were feral. At the same time I had the animal control people on the phone to tell them about it and where these dogs were, so hopefully they caught them. I just hate to think that the owners may have lost their dogs or worse yet, they get injured or killed. I am always looking out for animals on the loose.
Then I went to Wal-mart. Hubby is sick and so I had to pick up a Rx for him. While there, I noticed this one young man waiting on his Rx and he seemed very sick. Sadly he was alone and I watched him carefully and the pharmacist interacting with him, who I thought could have done a better job in patient care and others there avoiding him (30 years of me working in the medical field caught up with me there so I was ready to act and not stare). He got his Rx and I told the clerk to keep an eye out on this young man as he appears to be very sick and was there some way we could help him. His cart was full of stuff he needed to help him feel better. I finally went over and talked to him and asked him if he needed help. he said he felt like he was ready to pass out. I asked if he had the flu. he said no, but had a severe sinus infection, high fever that is raising his blood pressure so high he had the shakes. I was probably taking my life in my hands, but I offered to give the guy a ride home as I felt he was in no condition to drive, let alone be shopping...(I had my pepper spray with me)! Anyway, I hung around him to make sure he was taken care of. Turns out the guy was a nursing student and knew what to do and was going to call his uncle to come pick him up. But Wal-mart kept an eye on him and got someone to drive him home as well. Gosh, I just felt so badly for the guy. so all that was my heartfelt *trying to do an act of kindness* for the day. If you any of believe in pray, please pray for this young man who was so sick. I can't even believe he was out alone trying to take care of himself. My gosh, I would have done it for him. 
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| Brendan |
Posted: 27-Jul-2007, 08:33 PM
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Servant
Group: Celtic Nation
Posts: 37
Joined: 07-Apr-2007
Zodiac: Hawthorn
Realm: Suffolk County, Long Island, New York
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 I must share this with you folks and this seems to be the right place...
When I was about 24, My stunning wife @ 22 and our 2 children 5 Y/O girl
and 2 Y/O boy, were at my side and expected the paths I was venturing to be straight and true and for their best as always it should.
I Uprooted my family from the northeast (Long Island NY) and moved down to Georgia ,basically on a whim. I was skilled at 2 things, Delicatessen clerk
and plowing snow. Of course the demand for either was nill in this land we were
venturing.
Had I mentioned I had sold everything I had owned to have the money for this trip
and gathered the pitiful stash of a couple of hundred US..? This was pitiful..
I think the sum of everything I'd owned at this time was ...anyway you get the picture. So Off we went and what a wonderful feeling to be off to a new life!
Long story short... We lasted about 4 weeks. and the vehicle I had owned was a 1966 VW bus, Great on Gas but I had to push start it... So everything I loved in the world along with a rediculously cheap record player were headed back north.
Well we ran out of money and gas when I had hit Philadelphia in the blackest snow storm I had seen in a while at about 4:30 in the AM I had to pull over in front of a closed service station, no money...with babies....and no heat...and no one around...
Thank goodness they opened up at about 5:30! But I must tell you this was a frightful hour in my life. I went into the station and there were about 4 patrons
and the clerk inside. I went in with my "High Quality" Phonograph and started the sales pitch. To my displeasure no takers.... I didn't know what to do so I swallowed the lump in my throat and lowered my price with the explanation that was real and honest and still no takers... So... I walked out with my phonograph
and my heart in my throat and behind me one of the patrons walked past me and got their gas and took off and another walked out and walked up to me and said
" this your car?" I nodded yes, he looked in and looked back at me and reached into his wallet and pulled out $25 US and made sure that none of the other patrons were watching before he shoved it in my hand and closed it and started walking away..abruptly? I just was shocked and immediatly started following him requesting his address so I could square this debt. he looked over his shoulder
trying to get away clean and said "Lad.....You'll know one day this will be your task for that day... now get back to your family and be on with you."
Now I have to tell you everytime I think of this moment, and by now its thousands of times, it makes me choke up a bit and certainly puts things in perspective.
So Now My stunning wife @48 and I are "Empty Nesters" and have made a stable
financially sound life for ourselves and our children and Grandchildren now.
I will never forget this moment....It secured and confirmed the taste of honor and
morality that exists in the world around me.
I'm a better person because of that moment.
I wanted to share this with you..
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Health 'n Laughter,
Brendan
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