Gift from a Stranger — Giving the Little They Have to Always Pay It Forward
A humbling story of selflessness and the generousity of a stranger
“I can’t pay the hydro bill or make rent. I’ll got three days to figure this out and I don’t know what to do.”
I could hear the dread in their voice. The last minute phone call and a cry for help.
They are not one to reach out. But, they are unravelling in their dire situation and keeping a roof over their head it not a worry anyone needs.
“I might lose the kids.”
Providing support in as best as I can, but with my own bills to pay to do the same, there’s only so much I can do. To extend the offering, I began a bottle drive — involving my children.
Life is filled with teachable moments and I was presented with another.
We put a call out on a local community group to see who might have bottles that we could sort and return to the depot for deposits.
We gathered and sorted, and gathered and sorted again — responding to each of the messages.
Among them a note explaining that they had ample bottles to donate but that they needed me to pick them up.
