mercy

Monday, October 19, 2009

is when someone says to you "Don't worry about it. I love you" after you've smashed into their car door. I hardly know her. But she kept hugging me, smiling, and reassuring me everything was ok.

is when your dad takes the blame so that your insurance rate doesn't explode through the roof. Awesome dad is someone who says sorry for initially screaming his head off, asks if you're ok, and gives you a pat on the back.

Definition of retardation = me

God speaks to me through car accidents.

As Auntie Mei walked out my front door, she turned around and said, "i love you". I don't know much about her except that she goes to my church, her husband died from cancer a few years back, and she helped send me to Nicaragua. This was the first time I've ever really spoken to her in person and the first words she hears from me are, "I just hit your car". And her response is, "I love you". Crazy. This all could have been avoided had I not volunteered to pick up my little brother from piano lessons so that my dad could stay home to give Auntie Mei a flu shot. I could have taken my own car instead of the van that was doomed to back up into her car. I could have put on my glasses. It all could have turned out differently I suppose.

But it didn't.

But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without expecting to get anything back - Luke 6:35