All At Once by Jack Johnson (song)
08:41AM -
I just left Sam’s Club. I had to get a flat tire fixed. The man in the tire center did it for free. Yeah, I know. Let’s start from the beginning shall we? Tis a lovely place to start.
A few months ago I left my job due to an inner moral conflict; I had to promote movies with which I had moral objections. I took another job which didn’t pay as much, but I trusted that by doing the right thing, God would take care of Jamie and me. With my new job, I am able to go back to school and we have been able to pay our bills.
Due to various circumstances over the past month, money has been tight. Since tithing and missions giving are not options to draw from, I had been thinking about picking up a second job. We have only one car currently, so transportation is difficult enough as it stands now, since Jamie works as well.
Yesterday Jamie had to go to the eye doctor due to a scratched cornea (which of course costs money). On her way home from CVS she accidently ran over a screw that caused one of our tires to go flat. She made the comment “Why does everything always have to happen all at once. I feel like God is mad at us.” I retorted with “Maybe he is just testing us”, though in my head I am thinking “Come on, what more do you want from us God?”
A few moments later, one of my neighbors with whom I have had little contact with comes up to me while I am changing the flat tire and offers me a flashlight. Later on he offers me a a spider style lug wrench (as I have the old school single lug wrench that came with the car).
I express my gratitude and begin to chat him up. Soon his wife comes over and starts talking with us as well. He works at Sam’s Club; guess which department? The tire center. He helps me with the spare, and offers to fix my flat tire for free the next morning. “Bring it on in and we will get you taken care of”.
The man didn’t know me, nor had I done anything for him, nor did he ask for anything in return. Here I am one minute complaining and grumbling while God is telling me “I told you if you sought me first I would take care of you”. What a blessing, in the form of a flat tire and a random unsolicited act of kindness.
