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An odd Christmas occurrence, or a miracle? You decide!

Lately I’ve been watching Hallmark Christmas movies and it reminded me of my own Christmas story.

I think it was 1999. I was hitchhiking through Nashville Tennessee just before Christmas and I got caught in a blizzard. They shut down the interstate and I made my way to this truck stop restaurant and the waitress said I could wait inside and warm up. She caught me eating the jelly packets and gave me a cheeseburger for free.

Luckily, this was a huge truck stop and I could stay there to wait out the storm, but I wasn’t allowed to sleep. Occassionally I would nod off in the chair where the t.v. was playing. It was dark in there, so it went unnoticed. And, I could go into the bathroom and sleep. After 2 days, I cold called a couple churches to ask for help and out of nowhere, a preacher showed up and gave me twenty dollars. I got some cigarettes and some food and I met a trucker who said he would give me a ride to Knoxville. We were getting a meal before we left when a mother and her young child came into the restaurant and sat at an out of the way booth. You could just tell by the looks on their faces they had been defeated. Defeated by something really bad. I don’t know exactly what they were running from, but they ran out of gas and just sat there at the booth because that was all they COULD do. It was the day before Christmas. The trucker I was waiting on talked to the other truckers and started taking up a collection for them. Someone went and put gas in her car, they paid for her and her kid a meal to eat and they gave her some money for the road. I only had 3 dollars left of my money, but I chipped it in. It came when I needed it, so it seemed like what I should do. Three days sitting in a random truck stop, meeting fantastic people, learning lessons about humanity. It was a sensory overload! I’ve never spent a Christmas like that, nor have I ever since. It seemed like an important event and I was meant,no,destined to witness it. You can decide for yourselves if it was a miracle or not, but to me, it was hundreds of miracles and life lessons all rolled up into one.
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