This is completely different than earlier posts but this is a story that bears telling. I was waiting to meet a friend the other day and it was drizzling outside. Not any quantity of rain that would cause you to consider your plans, but enough to make walking any distance not fun.
A car pulled up and a woman stepped out. She walked into the restaurant and I barely took note of her. What I did notice was that when she emerged again from the place with her bag full of take out food the car once again returned. But wait! He just drove past her. What the?! So then I took note. My nose was a little out of joint for this woman with a significant other that rude. Before I could finish my thought though, he pulled back around the corner from whence he had disappeared. This time driving in the opposite direction! That's when I realized, he had pulled the car away to make a u-turn! He turned the car around so that his wife wouldn't have to walk to the far side of the car in the misty weather! My heart just melted and I had to say something to the woman! "Did he just turn around so you don't have to walk in the rain?!?" she turned and smiled and said "Yeah, he's pretty great like that. That's why I married him."
I was just blown away by the effortless thoughtfulness of that moment. A simple little thing seemed grander than a hundred flowers, more meaningful than soliloquy. I decided to take a lesson from that moment. Our love can be found in the moments we aren't paying attention. When you do for the person you love, because it seems the only thing and you wouldn't think to do otherwise.
