A day to remember
My wife Pat and I run a home computer support company. Early in 2007 we had a call from Peter, a man in his eighties who wanted help with Word processing and transfering a lifetimes slides onto his computer. Once every two weeks for nearly a year I visited and we had our lesson.
On Christmas eve 2007 we called to take Peter and Murial, his wife, small gift and a card. When we arrived they were both in tears, his doctor had told him that morning that he had liver cancer and only had a few months to live.
Peter died in the spring of 2008. We called a few times through the year to see Murial but not as often as we should.
On Tuesday of this week I had a gap of a couple of hours in my day between appointments so I thought I would do the shopping. As I drove to Morrisons I heard a voice say “go and see Murial. But I reasoned If I see her I won’t have time to do the shopping, I’ll make time to see her tomorrow. “What about your pledge to be inconviencienced ?” the voice countered.
I turned the car around and drove to her house. She was surprised but pleased to see me. As we chatted I said “it must be nearly a year since Peter died”. She replied “it is exactly a year today, I have just come back from taking flowers to his grave and I need someone to talk to”.
At one point she asked if I thought God loved her, I told her he must do as he re arranged my entire day and prompted me to be there to tell her just that.
