“So many things to be thankful for. Accidents included.”
The media focuses on negative things like robbery, assaults, and murders. Newspapers do the same thing because negative sells better than positive things. Entertainment magazines can’t wait to share the bad luck that celebrities are experiencing. People seem more interested in hearing about accidents and bad things rather than good things.
But sometimes accidents can result in positive things.
We accidentally bumped into friends on a cruise and we didn’t know they were taking the same cruise we were on.
On a recent road trip, we were looking for a place to eat dinner. We had to leave 2 places due to a lack of servers. As we started to leave the last place, the manager stopped us. She had been my former student 600 miles away from where I taught her and she recognized me. We were so excited to reconnect!
One time our basement flooded because our sump pump died. City workers were at our house checking out some problem flooding in the yard when we opened the basement and found the flood there too. One of the men just happened to have a brand new sump pump at home so he offered to sell it to us at a very reasonable price. When he came by after work with the pump, he even installed it for us! We insisted on paying him for the work too and he said we were an answer to his prayers because he had been out of work due to sickness and was low on money. He wasn’t sure how he was going to feed his family that week. We were the answer to each other’s prayers!
I believe that sometimes we don’t know the positive things that can happen because of some accidents.
Sometimes I have had to cancel a meeting with a friend due to unforeseen circumstances. Later I find out that there was a major accident on the highway and I could have been involved if I had gone to that meeting.
One time my husband twisted his back and we couldn’t go to an event only to find out later that some of the food there gave some people food poisoning.
On Thanksgiving, I heard of a story where a lady thought she was texting her grandson about Thanksgiving dinner and texted a young stranger. He was invited to dinner too and over the years, they have become friends and he comes to Thanksgiving dinner every year.
These are happy accidents. Even when we are lamenting about our bad luck, we should be thinking about what our bad luck has helped us avoid. Maybe our luck could have turned out worse.
What happy accident has happened to you? Please share.
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