Bad day Good Friday

Today got off to a bad start last night as I fell asleep in an awkward position on the couch with the tv on.  I woke up around 1 or 2 shivering on the couch and headed up to bed.  A few hours later, my alarm was going off and it was time to get ready for work.  As I got ready, I took a small loaf of banana bread out of the freezer to defrost.  I went to work and forgot my banana bread on the counter all day.  All morning I dreamed of that banana bread and instead had nothing to snack on.  Around 12:30, I decided to run an errand and walked to a building about a mile from my office.  About 30 seconds after I left it began to pour down rain.  I had my umbrella and continued on my way.  The rain was coming down so hard that my umbrella was no match and feet and pants were soon soaked.  I went to the entrance of the building and was told I had to go to the other side.  This was a large building that occupied multiple blocks.  Oh well.  Once I got through security, which took a while, I finally reached the office I was looking for only to be told that they couldn't service me until Monday.  Oh well.

I left and decided to go across the street to the CVS since I was already there.  I got a drink and a chocolate bunny for Jana for Easter.  The line was crazy long and took forever for me to purchase my overpriced items.  As I was walking back I heard a man call out, "Are you ok lady?"  I looked around and literally right next to me was a woman in a wheel chair.  Her chair was one of those ones with a joy stick.  It was leaning against a pole and her rear left wheel was lying next to her chair.  She was soaked and had no umbrella.  I noticed later that she was shivering pretty bad.  I can't believe I didn't even see her.  My first thought was to keep walking and let someone else help her.  I then wondered if I subconsciously didn't see her at first on purpose.  I felt pretty crappy about the thoughts in my head and felt an overwhelming sense of compassion for this woman.  I walked over to her and the guy in the truck who had called out to her had arrived by then too.  The other guy went to park the truck.  I picked up her chair as the man tried to attach the wheel.  He couldn't get it on.  I was afraid we wouldn't be able to fix her chair.  The other guy from the truck arrived and said he could figure out the wheel.  The first guy relieved me of holding the heavy chair.  I held my umbrella over the woman and tried to keep her company.  The guy working on the wheel was able to get it reattached.  Luckily their truck had a hammer and a wrench.

I was having a rough day from my lack of sleep and food and my rainy walk, but it could have been a lot worse.  This woman was leaning against a pole getting soaked with no way to move and she still had good spirits.  These two guys in the truck spotted this women and appeared to not even think twice about helping her.  They both got on the ground and dirty reattaching the wheel.  I love seeing people like this in action and wish I was more like that.  Their relatively small sacrifice (small when compared to Jesus) caused me to think of Good Friday and that Jesus made the ultimate sacrifice for all of us. The rest of my day was great.  I'm glad I was able to meet these guys and the woman in the wheel chair.