I’m 73 now and looking back I see serendipity happening all the time. Sometimes the smallest action or decision led to a different road and a different life. I’m most grateful for the sickness that brought me back to Catholicity in 1977. I have come to believe that God always has His purpose. My job is to trust and obey. Here’s one of my favorite stories.
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George Crane from Pittsfield, MA. George was an alcoholic and had lost his law practice and his family because of his addiction. One day he woke up an alcoholic and went to bed in love with God. He had attended a legal conference and, at the end of the day, went to the bar and got sloshed. On his way to his motel room, he opened the wrong door, the basement door, and proceeded to tumble down a flight of stairs landing in a heap. He told us the first words out of his mouth were, “Oh, My God! Help me!” +
And he immediately felt His presence. He was there for him. Completely changed George’s life. He was able to give up drinking, got his legal license back and his family. More than that. George became a new man in Christ. He became active in his Catholic Church and the Charismatic Renewal. He became a witness to God’s goodness. That’s how I heard him in 1980.
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Here’s a link to his obit/
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He opened the wrong door which just happened to be the right door.
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Pax et bonum,
Walt Gartner