Wonderful trip home. Breakfast in Heuston Station before catching 11AM train. No tea trolley, disappointing!! Amazing impromptu encounter though with lovely lady all the way to Mallow. Time flew by as it always does when wise words flow freely. She took extra prayers to share with friends.
On train to Mallow, Stefan from Germany kindly placed my case on overhead rack and offered to swop seats if I would prefer seat facing forward. Pleasant handsome young guy who accepted my prayer in fits of laughter but then solemnly declared: ‘I know about Christian!’. Delightful encounter too.
Ed accepting my prayer in train station told me: ‘Well, I’ve been in fifteen car crashes and fallen 35 feet, so definitely someone is keeping me alive’. He has never driven, he informed me, willing passenger every time, just ‘enjoying my time with my pals’. ‘But I don’t do that anymore’, he uttered. ‘My life is better now’. Uplifting tale of survival and redemption!!
Waiting on bus, Joe seated on bench near me, eyed my much needed bar of chocolate and relieved me of half. Then he asked pretty girl waiting too if she would let him have a cigarette. Pretty girl and Joe both happily accepted my prayer. Pretty girl exclaimed’ ‘This (prayer) has made my day’. Random exceedingly enjoyable encounter!
On bus home finally, seated next to Nadia from Ukraine. Her Mother, Catholic, Father, Orthodox. She enjoys both. Loving my prayer, will pray it every morning with her ten year old son and then she takes a picture of Jesus from her purse. Her husband and brothers are fighting for their homeland. She ‘very hope’ they will be safe. (Hard to imagine how I might cope in Nadia’s country were the roles reversed!!) Sombre interaction but we laughed lots too.
I left home almost a week ago with thirty prayers, I return with just one.😀
Here at last in this cozy compact cottage I am so thrilled and blessed to call Home. Beyond tired but oh so grateful to God for my wonderfully simple uncomplicated life.
‘I have one passion, it is Christ, Christ alone’. (Count Zinzendorf)
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