Great Day

"When you start thinking that everything is a coincidence, then you take credit away from God." I sat just starring at her while she leaned over to eat her fried chicken. "He knows what he's doing," she went on to say. I was in awe which is a feeling I'm getting more and more often. All this wonderful revelation was wetting my appetite for I have been desperately asking God for some sort of answer since my January 31 fiasco. Her words have given me sooo much confidence in the past few days. I really needed someone like her to say that for it has been a tough few months. As she went on, I was just starring out the window watching the cars go by. To me there is nothing more peaceful than to be at a fast food joint eating and watching whatever may go by outside the window. I'm weird, but oh well, no apologies here.

As she concentrated more on her food than our talk, I looked to my left. I noticed underneath the window painted advertisement an old couple. They had been eating at the very corner of the place when I had arrived and carried my meal to the table a few feet from them. The older lady saw me and smiled; I smiled back. They were already finished and out next to their car. At first sight I thought he was opening the door for her. As it turned out, she was opening the door for him; she was sitting him in the rear behind the driver's seat. I was baffled. All I could think about then was how I didnt want to grow up to that age to have my wife or someone do that for me. I loved the charity and patience she showed, but at the same time I wish that it didnt have to be that way for him,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,or me.

Then I awoke to my senses and realized how perfect she was for me. Of every woman God could have chosen, how perfect it was to have matched me up with someone so compassionate, so understanding, kind and gentle. I was blessed; the whole idea gave me a sense of calmness. I must of stared at her for more than 10 straight seconds. She never noticed; she was too busy eating........

I had been eating a few minutes earlier when someone smacked me in the shoulder. I was momentarily pissed! Its not fun to be eating in perpetual bliss to only have someone come startle you like that. Pleasantly, I noticed my mother walking around the other side of the table. She's a sass at times, but I by far get more of it from my Dad than her. I've got her thick hair and eyes, but I didn't inherit her piety toward God. I've gotten more of her feminine attributes than did my brother. However, I'm bolder than he is........I guess that has come from my "who gives a shit if you live 25 yrs or 100 yrs" attitude toward life. I've found that fortune favors the bold. Trust me.

As it turned out, she didnt go to work that morning. Instead she had played for a funeral. A little old lady was having her funeral and my mother has always seen it fit to use her musical talents at the bequest of our, well her, parishoners. We're Catholic.......thats what we do : - ) Anyhow she thought it fitting that her funeral be on the First Saturday of the month. Its part of a devotion to Our Lady. This particular parishoner was a pious one at that. She suffered a great bit in the final twenty years of her life. I knew her; I always gave her the utmost respect. Anyhow, this began the "God is in control" talk; it also began my second serving of fried chicken.

I wonder if there is a chink to that statement--does fortune really favor the bold? History says "yes"! Then again, not all of history is recorded. Has there even been a time when boldness gave way to Divinity? Afterall, today I noticed a birthday on a screen. It cant be! Two minutes later, he phones HR to only repeat two names. Oh my God! I sat starring at my monitor much like I did at my mother this past Saturday. The second sign. The relative pair I see again. Chance? There it is .......her birthday,,,,,and then echo the names of her and her mother. Wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Is it a coincidence? No,,,,not after what my mother told me this past weekend. I've believed and faltered, and now I believe again.

I speak in generalities for one day I know I'll be explaining myself.