Sue Day 81

This morning about 7:15 I heard a familiar voice as I was sitting in my Little Debbie truck. It was my friend Sue from my church, she congratulated me on the Denman Evangelism award. I told her that I was sorry and had been praying her her entire family.

I first met Sue many years ago in my Sub Shop, she came in to get me to do some catering. As we chatted we realized that we both lived in the Chesapeake City area; however our paths had never crossed.

Sure enough when I opened Curve`s in Chesapeake City Sue and her niece Theresa both joined the first new exciting workout establishment in their tiny hometown. Business went great for the first two years, then not so well! Maybe I should have stayed in the food business, I learned the hard way that people have to eat everyday, but they don`t have to exercise! I could write volumes on this brief 3 year season of my life; that will come later if God feels the need for me to elaborate.

Theresa recently lose her 42 year old husband in a terrible traffic accident. As a matter of fact even though I didn`t know her husbands I was effected by his death. Of course, I was saddened to hear of his death and I began immediately to pray for Theresa and her entire family.

So how did this effect me, Theresa husband`s funeral was the same day that I was to be presented with the Evangelism award, Pastor Amy would have been at the presentation; she had to leave the annual conference early to come home for the funeral service. Pastor Amy apologized for missing the presentation, it made me feel bad that she felt bad. Receiving an award is so trivial when a family is in desperate need of their loving compassionate pastor`s guidance.

After not seeing Theresa for several years, most recently I saw her 59 nine days ago as we walked down the street in Chesapeake City toward our church to attend the funeral for Barbara Green.

Was it a coincidence that Theresa and I arrived at the exact same moment, or was God providing us with this precious time of renewal and friendship? She had no idea that less than 2 month`s she would be experiencing such a devastating loss herself. God is the only one that can see the paths that our lives will take, what a blessing that He takes care of us in such a peaceful loving way.

As I thought about the coincidence of meeting Sue today and how our lives have connected was there more that I was supposed to do, did I miss a special message from God? Or was God just allowing two friends to share His love and support for one another.

Psalms 139:17-18 How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them! Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sands.