I was so excited about my run. I just started getting back to working out and I was... excited. I was so excited that I didn't realize it when my keys and my driver's license fell out of my sweatshirt pocket and onto the ground on a very busy Atlanta sidewalk.
In desperation I backtracked and found my keys near a pile of leaves, but my ID was nowhere to be found. I got stressed out as I sometimes do and started thinking about all the steps I would have to take to get a new one. A problem I made worse for myself, by not getting my Georgia license sooner.
Days later, I decided I wouldn't let the ID incident spoil my new motivation to get out and run. As I started my trek down Peachtree Road, I spotted a man in a big coat with shopping bags and wreaking of marijuana. He looked homeless. It was already dark, so I seized up a bit and plowed past him. He stared me down and I just knew he was going to ask me for money. I turned up the music on my headphones and started running.
I heard the man yelling as I ran. I turned and saw him waving and contemplated running away again. But when I took off my headphones I heard the magic words: "I HAVE YOUR LICENSE!"
This young man had found my driver's license two days earlier. He had planned on mailing it to my old address.
Thank goodness for that man and thank goodness I turned around. What's incredible, is that the man I had written off as a homeless druggie, lives in a luxury high rise on Peachtree.
I waited in his fancy lobby while he grabbed my ID.
The lesson I learned? Wrong or right.... people have layers. And when you decide who a person is before meeting them, you may block your own blessing.
Acts 10: 34-35
34 So Peter opened his mouth and said: “Truly I understand that God shows no partiality, 35 but in every nation anyone who fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him.
Lord, I want to see people the way you see them. I don't want to miss opportunities to be a blessing in someone's life... nor do I want to miss a blessing You have for me because I ruled someone out. Amen.
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