Pay It Forward

Gene even hooked up our sewer hose for us!

Gene turned on our propane 

The great mystery is how Gene unlocked our trailer without a key

Pay It Forward--When you receive a kindness from someone else and you can't pay them back directly, what do you do?  Pay it forward!  Find another good deed that you can do for someone else.  In turn, they will pay that good deed forward and you start an avalanche of good deeds that cascades into the Valley of Indifference with a thundering roar--a roar that says "We love you, God loves you, people care about you, you are not alone!!"

We were the recipients of just such a "Pay It Forward" good deed last Friday night, April 5, 2013.  My son, Peter, son-in-law, Rae, and I were driving over to Pismo late Friday night.  I called Linda Sue to tell her not to worry about us because we wouldn't be in till around midnight.  About 11 p.m., Gene left their trailer to go check on ours.  When he returned to his trailer, our trailer had been completely set up for us--the electricity and water were hooked up, the propane was on, even the sewer was hooked up!  But, the biggest mystery of all was that the slides had been pushed out (which can only be done from inside the trailer), and "the light was left on for us" (just like Tom Bodett promises with Motel 6), also a task that can only be done from the inside the of the trailer--but the trailer was locked when we arrived!  In his enigmatic, mystic, Far Eastern way, Gene let the mystery remain a mystery.  So now, we have no choice but to "Pay It Forward".

These photos, by the way, were taken on Sunday, before we left.  Gene inspected everything to make sure we had closed the trailer up properly.

THE GOLDEN RULE
"So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets."  Matthew 7:12 (New International Version)