There are no Accidents (8/6/14)

They can use your support.

My friend Rob ran a meeting last week under the theme “Are There Really Any Lemons”. It’s funny because that meeting was sandwiched between two days where someone could have shaken the tree, and found bushels of lemons.

The first day I spent nearly three hours commuting to a speaking engagement where I didn’t even get to speak because the organization double booked speakers. The second day I was serving food at the Ronald McDonald House to families whose children are fighting just to survive.

In both cases it would be real easy to see nothing but lemons scattered on the ground, but then again you might not be looking hard enough if lemons was all you saw. The other speaker was an advocate for human trafficking, and I have a good friend who sits on the board of a national organization for the prevention of bullying. All of those families that were at the Ronald McDonald House were given the gift of hope courtesy of strangers who were their to lift just a little of the burden off their shoulders.

You may question the existence of lemons like Rob, but I like to think of it as there are no accidents. I was supposed to be at that meeting as a guest, just like I was supposed to be at the Ronald McDonald House barbequing.