Special

Yet again,someone was kind to me this week.  While kindness may come my way in many forms, from many people, this one particular kindness so struck me.  I must state that I am thankful for every kindness, but this time I was more than thankful, I was overcome.  So, what was different?

Having just returned from Europe, a friend from our English mass community came to see me.  He had wanted to chat about his recent reading on being a Catholic.  On meeting me, he gave me a gift - a bottle of wine.  On talking about his trip, he highlighted his time in Italy.  After he left, I looked at the bottle of wine and saw it was Italian.  So I wondered - Did he or did he not? 

It then hit me like lightning - "He gave me a bottle of Italian wine.  Did it come from Italy?"  

So I rang him to check - "Did you bring me that wine back from Italy?"

"Of course!" - was his reply. 

I was simply stunned that he, or anyone, would go to such trouble for me, bringing a bottle of wine all the way from Tuscany.  

In expressing my amazement and deep gratitude, he simply replied, why wouldn't he do so, after all I had done for him?  I was left speechless, holding a gift that was more than a bottle of wine, but a testimony to that, in someone's eyes today, I am special.  And aren't we all?  What more can I say?