free fuel

I just walked in the door.   From my trip to Vandy for my latest photo shoot of my insides.  And, in about 9 hours, I'll turn around and do the trip again to see what's behind door number one.  It would have been much easier to spend the night but I'd miss packing lunches and kissing goodbye for school and two small people's days would be much more disrupted.  But, that's tomorrow.
Today, I experienced something that will stick with me.  I was about and hour from home but starving - debating on the bowl of cereal at home or stopping for food.  I chose the food.  Glad I did.  I got up to the window to pay and the girl said, "the person in front of you already paid for yours."  Huh?  She grinned and said, "yes ma'am, it's true."  I'll admit that I looked around for someway to thank someone and then started spinning my mind on how I could find out who it was to thank them.  I started wondering if they thought I was someone else, or someone they knew.  I started to ask the girl if she knew them.  But, I stopped (after I felt God thump me in the head) and just decided to be thankful.  It was just that - a random act.  Whoever it was wanted nothing in return and had no expectations.  Just joy because they did something nice.  I'm certain they had no idea that I was a mama who had spent all day in a cancer clinic and kind of thought about skipping the chicken to get home to her babies faster.  God knew who I was.
He also put that Keurig in the outpatient imaging center I ended up in today - not stale hospital coffee.  That was my fuel to get me to the chicken.  And the chicken that was paid for by a complete stranger was my fuel to get me home.  And what's at home is what fuels me the most.  So, today I learned that paying it forward can really pay you back, kindness has a real ripple affect, and there are still good people in this world
Not too bad.
KJ