God Gave Me That Story
You know those moments when you realize or have an "ah ha" moment? I had one of those today. I told y'all the story earlier today about my most embarrassing moment. If you have not read it, just go to the next entry about my night with Lydia and Drew. So I was telling Blake I was going to run to the grocery store. I open the door and I hear the fire bell going. It sounded like they were testing it today. I decided to walk down the stairs and check the mail. But I keep hearing the short rings. I pass the elevator door and I hear a voice calling for help, with also some beating of a door. I realize the rings I have been hearing was someone trying to get help because they were stuck in the elevator. I pound on the door and scream "can you hear me?" I get a soft voice saying back, "YES!!" I told the voice to hold on that I would get help and be right back.
Well one thing leads to another and I find myself in front of a closed elevator door and talking to a voice. I ask her name and she tells me her name is Jeni. We start talking a bit, passing the time while waiting for help to arrive. One of the other tenants decided to call the fire department so I let her know what is happening on that end. She didn't say anything back for a long time and then I hear her small voice again and she says with hesitation, "well,that's embarrassing." I laugh and tell her, "nah, this is nothing! now what happened to me last night WAS embarrassing!" So I continue to tell her my story. She laughed and said it helped her not to feel so embarrassed. A few minutes later the fire department arrives and 40 min. later the elevator guy shows up to get Jeni out. When she got out her first thing was to ask which one was me. I put my hand up and she stepped forward and gave me the biggest hug. I was so glad that today I was able to help someone. That although I couldn't get her out of that place, I could help her relax and not to be as worried. I was even glad God gave me my embarrassing moment to help her along as well. :)
Just thought I would share that with y'all. It was a neat thing, even though Jeni nor I would have wanted it to happen, we entered each other's lives today and I think made each other better for it.
2 comments:
The fact that the restroom incident happened to you so recently probably helped alot, too. If you told me you had done that two years ago, and I was in the elevator, i would have felt relieved, but not as relieved as i would had you said it happened to you in the past week!
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I know, that is when I had a "God you did that!" moment! I thought how funny that the night before that I had my embarrassing moment and to be able to use it to help someone else out. it was nice and funny at the same time.
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