“I pulled into the gas station after getting back home from a long work road trip. I was exhausted and ready to get home. When I began to fill my tank, I noticed an elderly woman on the other side of the pump appearing to be struggling pumping her gas. I took the moment to ask her if she was doing ok, to which she replied, “No, I am not. I can’t get this gas to work.” I went to her side of the pump, and it appeared she had already entered her card and it was ready to fuel. All that needed to be done was squeeze the nozzle. Once I did that, she said, “Oh, is it working?” I replied, “Yes”, and she began to explain how her husband had always come home from work, grabbed her car and filled it up, and that she hadn’t ever had to fill her tank before. She didn’t have to say it, but it was understood that she had just lost the love of her lifetime, and that she was having to be brave and pump her own gas for the first time. When it finished pumping, I helped show her how to print her receipt and she was on her way. I only wish I had stopped to pray with her, that she wouldn’t feel alone.”
-Adam Jackson
“Reading through Day 12, ‘Did you ask’, today reminded me… when I was in college, we were in downtown Denver. There was a man on the street asking for food. I went into the Seven Eleven and bought a few things. When I came out, he said, ‘It would have been better if I went with you. I know the cheapest way to get the most food.’ That really stuck with me. Of course I wouldn’t know that, and unfortunately, of course he would.”
– Kyree Chambers