Great post! During my career I saw the best and worst of humanity and the best far exceeded the worst. Perhaps I am naïve or a fool but I think most people are good and decent. I always think of people as good unless they prove otherwise and have seldom been disappointed. This world has more than a few decent people but is full of them. Another great story I read today. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...ivery-driver-five-days-storm-SUV-crashed.html
Yesterday at Walmart...I was blow away.
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I've had a couple show-stopper breakdowns on my bike miles away from home. Both times someone stopped and offered to give me a ride. Needless to say I was very thankful.
That's an amazing and heart-warming story. (And who doesn't need more of those these days?) I'm not sure about angels myself, but it's clear they aren't necessarily of the ephermeral "wingy" variety that we often imagine them. Sistema1927's quote from Hebrews says it all, I think.
Of course, your obvious love of cats might have an effect on your karma, too
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Stories like this brighten my generally dim view of human beings.
Thanks for the uplift.
Thanks for the uplift.
Does it count when someone ahead of you is digging around in the pants or purse for more money and you cover their purchase, just so they will get out of your way?
I've done that a few times.
I've done that a few times.
SuperMan
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"paying it forward" is a concept most people don't get...those that do and practice it get much more out of life...
Bob
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I've helped the stranded, stuck, broke down, overheated and out of gas but far and away my favorite vehicle assist was dropping dimes into the meter just as the enforcer was reaching for the citation pad.
The looks I got were priceless when they discovered I wasn't the owner.
The looks I got were priceless when they discovered I wasn't the owner.
wheelgun28
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Very nice stories here
Now I find myself asking how can I be a better person?
Now I find myself asking how can I be a better person?
Just asking yourself that has already made you a better person.
I wasn't going to post this because it didn't happen to me. But I believe it is important. A family that used to go to the same church as my family went to a national park for vacation. They had two daughters, 14 and 8. There was an observation tower in the park. The two girls climbed the tower. The parents stayed on the ground and watched them. When the girls started back down, they began racing. The father was just about to yell at them to stop horsing around when the 8 year old tripped and fell. She was about two stories up when she tripped. She rolled under the railing and fell to the ground. The parents ran to her thinking she had died in the fall. As they got to her, she sat up. She was unhurt. Not a mark on her body. Her parents were amazed. Their daughter looked at them with a huge grin and asked: "Did you see them?" They responded with: "See who?" She said: "The angels that caught me." Yes, I believe in guardian angels.
As a certain playwright wrote, "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are spoken of in your philosophy."
With all our modern technological and scientific sophistication, we need to be humble enough to realize that we don't know everything. And likely never will.
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Since I do not believe in any supernatural beings, have never seen any
evidence of these, I simply think human kind has compassionate people,
more than we realize. Just because we can't explain something doesn't
mean it was some supernatural force.
In the Animal Kingdom there are lots of examples of animals helping others
in peril. Nothing supernatural about that.
As a side note, once in the grocery store checkout the lady in front of us
was short on money and started to put back items. She was less than
$20.00 short so I paid, it was Thanksgiving week. She waited until I
was through the line and then ask if I was an angel from heaven. I smiled
and said if I were an angel it would probably be from the other place.
evidence of these, I simply think human kind has compassionate people,
more than we realize. Just because we can't explain something doesn't
mean it was some supernatural force.
In the Animal Kingdom there are lots of examples of animals helping others
in peril. Nothing supernatural about that.
As a side note, once in the grocery store checkout the lady in front of us
was short on money and started to put back items. She was less than
$20.00 short so I paid, it was Thanksgiving week. She waited until I
was through the line and then ask if I was an angel from heaven. I smiled
and said if I were an angel it would probably be from the other place.
gregintenn
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LOL! ...and the you have my wife's aunt. Someone in front of her at a fast food drive thru paid for her order. She was telling us about it later. She didn't mention how nice it was. She said she'd have ordered more if she'd known that was going to happen.I love doing that at drive-up windows.
Everybody is good for something, even if it's just being a good bad example.
LOL! ...and the you have my wife's aunt. Someone in front of her at a fast food drive thru paid for her order. She was telling us about it later. She didn't mention how nice it was. She said she'd have ordered more if she'd known that was going to happen.
Everybody is good for something, even if it's just being a good bad example.
Lucifer was also an Angel.
gregintenn
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You are correct, sir!Lucifer was also an Angel.
I was having breakfast in a now defunct diner in Hanover, PA and when I went to pay the owner said some good soul had already paid for my breakfast. During the course of the morning I heard a story about an older (presumably older than me) couple who sometimes came into that diner with their grown son who had special needs. The impression I got was that these people were not affluent. So I asked the owner for an envelope. I put enough Golden Dollars to pay for a good breakfast in the envelope, sealed the envelope and asked the owner to use them to help pay for breakfast for this couple and their son.
