Our black Friday didn't have any fighting for a sale item..... or running fast to get to a sale item. I know that is how lots of people "do" black friday but for us.... that is not the norm. We wanted to buy several Jesus Story Book Bibles ... like I shared in my last post.
We had a great time.
At our last stop we went by Petsmart. We always like to go by there.... you see for about 2 years my children have wanted a Bearded Dragon. I am the animal person... and I think they are cute! On this day... they were half price. Alyssa and I kept looking at them. Alyssa kept saying "Mom, it can be an early Christmas present for the boys and me." Well, we would have to buy the starter kit... and food, and a rock.... and dishes for food and water...
I just couldn't bring myself to spend the money....
We left... and as we were driving out of the busy, dark parking lot.... there was a man... standing on the corner... with a sign... that read...
HAPPY HOLIDAYS
TRYING TO SURVIVE
He didn't make eye contact......
as we drove away... Alyssa said "we should do something...give him something."
I turned around... told her to get a few dollars out of my purse. She asked about the extra food we had from our previous meal. All of this took maybe 3-4 minutes...
I drove up to the place where the man was standing just a few minutes earlier...
He was gone.
I said "where is he?"
We looked all around, we drove around several times... looking for him.
We didn't see him anywhere.
As we drove away....
We just looked at one another. A little stunned. She said,
"we missed our chance." We were quiet... both thinking....
After about 30 minutes... she said "you know that money we would of spent on a bearded dragon... we could save more then 10 lives by buying a net to fight malaria." I shook my head ... "yes."
I wonder where that
man is.... wonder if he is cold tonight as the temps drop down to 38 and it is wet and soggy.
I wonder if it was
"Jesus" reminding us of what's really important.
Sponsor a child... change a life forever~
Grace~