Today, I was impatiently waiting at at one of those red lights that you begin to think might be broken because it is taking so long for the light to turn green. I was getting grumbly, aggravated, and all in all anything but serene. I was inching up closer and closer to the person in front of me wishing they too were turning right, so we could get a MOVE ON. Now, it is not like I had anywhere pressing I needed to be. In fact, we were on our way home from the YMCA. The only think I had to get to was Smaller Child's nap, and lunch for me and Larger Child. (Clearly, very very important and life threatening...)
So, I was waiting at this light... Then, I look over to my right, and in the parking lot for a fast food restaurant is an older woman, I would guess maybe 60's, getting out of a truck, and wrestling a wheel chair out of the bed of the truck. She then opened it up, and wheeled it around to the passenger side. I was expecting maybe a husband to be on the other side of the door, but she reached in and wrapped her arms around an even older woman (probably 80's+). She lifted the woman, and placed her gently in the wheel chair. She then finger combed the thin grey hair of the elder woman and caressed her cheek. The elder woman reached out, and they embraced each other for several seconds. Right about then, my light turned green.
I caught just a few seconds of their lives. It was a small vignette into their world that I would not have witnessed had that light not been red, or if the car in front of me was turning right too. It was just a brief moment of human to human interaction... two souls touching one another in the most tender and caring way... and I was there to see it, and be touched by it too.
In my rushing, busy busy, got-to-get-there-and-get-there-now life, I need to remember that God puts pauses in for a reason. I just need to breathe, relax, and look around to see what He wants me to see, witness the gift, and feel the blessing.
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