Bike problems

This entry was posted on May 31 2009

So I’ve been waiting over a week now for my big AHA moment to give away my envelope that has been in the visor of my car. You know waiting for that great God intervention moment. It came but in such a simpler way than I imagined. I was vacuuming my car at a local gas station when along comes this teenager to put air in the tire of his bike. Over the sound of the vacuum I hear a very loud pop; the tire tube had popped too much air. In that moment I’m thinking to myself, I really need to help this kid, but I have no cash and there is no store nearby to buy a new tube. The kid leaves and I finish with my car, and suddenly it hits me, this is it, that great big God intervention moment. So I ride around looking for this kid and I find him, defeated, he’s walking back home. So I stopped, gave him the envelope and told him this should take care of it. He went on to tell me his name is Thomas and he recently bought his bike from a thrift store, he kept saying “you know when something not good is about to happen to you, I heard this hissing when I was putting air in the tire and I knew in that moment it was too much and then it popped.” Thomas walked away pushing his bike home and told me thank you. Although Thomas was a teenager, our conversation indicated he was somewhat younger in years mentally. I watched Thomas walk away pushing his bike home and I went the other direction, he never looked inside the envelope, he just put it in his pocket knowing it would meet his need. The faith of a child!!!

- Buddy B.

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