Matters in our path TMM 8.7.19
It is miraculous how God sometimes teaches us small lessons by putting someone in our path and then prompting us to act. There is a teenage boy in our apartment complex who wanders around and sometimes asks us if he can wash our car for some money. Yesterday Jim took out some garbage, and met the boy in his path. The boy asked if Jim would go with him to the pawn shop on the corner and vouch for him so he could get money for his bike. Jim did not trust the boy, who seemed suspicious and dishonest, but told him he would need a note from the boy’s mother. Jim did not know anything about the boy—not even his name or which apartment was his.
The boy disappeared behind one of the buildings and returned in a couple of minutes with a questionable note on a scrap of paper with no signature. At the door Jim challenged him and asked if he could speak with the mother. The boy quickly countered that his mother was asleep and very sick with cancer, a huge tumor. They “needed the money from the bike for food because” the mother had not been able to work for two weeks. Jim told the boy that he didn’t believe him and would not help.
Now, we are ALMOST positive that the bike was stolen; the mother was not asleep or sick; that the boy wrote his own note; and that the money was not for food—but, this boy was put in our path. The test was not for the boy, but for us. Emily Freeman (Don’t Miss This!) and Dave Butler wear two bracelets. One says, “WWJD—What would Jesus do?” and the other, “HWLF—HE would love first.” We thought about this experience for a couple of minutes. Then we went to the store and bought a frozen lasagna. Jim went looking for the boy and the boy appeared. He seemed a little confused when Jim asked about the bike, and then took the dinner home with instructions from Elder Flanagan to cook it for his mother.
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