Elderly Couple from Asheville

On a September 2010 day I was working as an 8-hr-airport-standby Flight Attendant at DFW. After sitting for just a couple of hours, I got a call from crew scheduling assigning me to do a Ft Walton Beach flight. So I got to the airplane and did all my pre-flight duties & checks and was ready for passengers, when suddenly, in came the gate agent to tell me that crew-sched had removed me from that flight assignment because they found another FA. I packed up my things and continued to sit standby at Terminal B.

About half hour later I was walking through the terminal and found myself just about 50 ft in front of an elderly couple walking toward my direction. In an instant, the woman missed a step, tripped and proceeded to fall forward as I watched almost in slow motion. I ran towards her to try to catch her before she hit the floor head on, but could not get there in time, especially since I was dragging my suitcase along and had knee problems myself. As I reached them, I was able to assist her to get up from the floor and call to a nearby gate agent to call for help and bring a wheelchair. We got her on the wheelchair and tried to make sure she was okay, but she said she just banged her knee and was a little shook up. She refused to receive any further help. So I escorted them to the Starbucks they were headed to in the first place, offered my assistant, tried to be helpful, caring and sympathetic and told them it was okay for me to hang out for a few more minutes because I had no flights to get to, just airport standby, etc. I left them situated and proceeded to go back to the crew lounge.

Another 2 hours went by... then crew scheduling gives me a last minute assignment for a flight to Asheville NC for an overnight. The original flight attendant apparently got food poisoning and could not do this flight at the last minute. When I was greeting the boarding passengers at the entry door, lo n behold, there was the elderly couple coming to MY newly-assigned flight. She sees me and smiles saying: “I will never forget you, and here you are now!” I was astonished and so happy to see them again, now as my passengers! As they were deplaning in Asheville, she gave me a big warm hug and thanked me again for all my kindness. What are the odds for something like this to happen? My life is full of these “coincidences” especially in the last couple of years. Life is truly stranger than fiction!

So, what is the higher purpose in these synchronistic events? Why was I sent to work the couple's flight only after our encounter? I already notice the multitude of coincidences in my life. I GET IT! So why does it keep happening if I already got the message? I didn't save her life or anything grand & magnanimous. I was simply kind & caring to her. Was that enough to "make a difference in her life"? Did I "serve" her or served a higher purpose by just being there? Is that all it takes to be an instrument of God's will? YES! Just as simple as that.... even if it is just to create this aha moment, another lesson in enlightenment, to show me that by simple caring & compassion you serve His will! Later, I cried sweet tears of surrender & humility.

Then the next evening at home I finally get to watch this movie that I had rented and was sitting there for a week: "The Shift" by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer. How great is this movie (book) at explaining it all, and making it seem so simple! In it he says:

"Synchronicity: Is like a collaboration with fate. All of that (synchronicity) becomes the norm when the ego is no longer the driving force in your life. You begin to recognize that there's a powerful organizing intelligence that is on all things, and it is working with you and for you, almost as if you are making it happen by just being connected to your Source." And later he says: "You never attract what you want, you attract what you ARE".

But this was all just plain “coincidence”, right?? <wink> Many other stories I will post here will show my belief that Spirit works behind all this synchronicity. :-)