Yes, what you do for others comes back to you.
As he drove home from work, Bryan noticed a woman stranded on the side of the road. Her tire was flat.
Stopping to help her, he parked his beat-up Pontiac in front of her Mercedes. Judging him by his appearance, she wondered if this man might hurt her. After all, he did look poor and unsafe.
Brian approached the stranded woman. “I stopped to help you, ma’am,” he said. “Why don’t you wait in the car where it is warmer? By the way, I am Bryan Anderson.”
He skinned his knuckles and injured his hands as he worked, but quickly changed the flat tire. As he tightened the lug nuts, she began to speak with him through her window.
“How much do I owe you?” she asked. “Any amount you want is fine with me.”
But Bryan had never thought about payment. This was helping someone in need, and many people had helped him in the past. Besides, he had lived his whole life helping others. So he replied that she could pay him back by helping the next person she encountered who needed help.
“Just remember me and help that person,” Brian told her.
A few miles down the road, she stopped in a dingy restaurant to grab a bite to eat. A waitress with a sweet smile came over to her table and brought her a clean towel to wipe her wet hair.
The waitress was nearly eight months pregnant. “How could someone with so little be so giving and kind to a stranger?” she wondered. Suddenly she remembered Brian’s words about how she could repay him.
Deliberately the lady paid for her inexpensive meal with a hundred dollar bill. As the waitress went to get change, she disappeared right out the door.
Wondering where the lady could be, the waitress noticed something written on a napkin on the table and cried as she read what the lady wrote. “You don’t owe me anything. I have been there too. Somebody once helped me the way I’m helping you. If you really want to pay me back, don’t let this chain of love end with you.” Under the napkin, the waitress found four more $100 bills.
That night, as she climbed into bed, she was thinking about the money and what the lady had written. How could the lady have known how much she and her husband needed that money?
Knowing how worried her husband had been about money, she hugged and kissed him.
Then she whispered, “Everything will be all right. I love you, Bryan Anderson”
The actions you dole out to others always return to you, bad or good.
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