Tuesday, 4 October 2011

Chance Encounter

I have a friend who took her son to see a play in this summer’s Shakespearean Festival in Cedar City, Utah. It may have been Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo and Juliet, or Richard III. I know they did The Glass Menagerie and The Music Man this year as well. My friend drove a rental car. When she returned to where she thought she’d parked it, she couldn’t open the car. That’s when the owner of the car came up and asked if he could help her.  He recognized her from more than three decades before, when he was the young missionary who introduced her family to the LDS church. I don’t think she’s met many people who’ve had a bigger impact on her life. The self-help guru Wayne Dyer said there’s no such thing as an accident. Everyone that shows up in your life has something to teach you. Learn to appreciate everyone and everything in your life.

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