One Good Turn Deserves Another

This was sent to me some­time ago via email. Great story. Some may call it serendip­ity. Or coin­ci­dence. Or maybe fate. The spir­i­tual ones will prob­a­bly see God’s hand in this.

What­ever we call it, it gives us a sense that there is more to life than meets the eye. That there is some­thing MORE to life than what we know of it. That there is a cer­tain con­nec­tiv­ity to things and events. Events like this–events of serendip­ity and coincidence–make us pause and think and bring us to a moment of awe and amaze­ment. And hope­fully we learn. And hope­fully we live better.

In the mean­time, keep walking.

A US teenager who saved the life of a ‘stranger’ was shocked to find it was a nurse who did the same for him in 1999.

Kevin Stephan, 17, of Buf­falo, New York state, rushed to per­form the Heim­lich manoeu­vre when he saw Penny Brown chok­ing on her lunch.

He did not recog­nise Ms Brown as the off duty nurse who got his heart beat­ing again after a bat hit him in the chest dur­ing a base­ball game, reports the Buf­falo News.

But Kevin’s mother, who was in the restau­rant where Kevin per­formed his good deed, knew exactly who it was.

“Oh, my good­ness,” Lor­raine Stephan told her. “You saved my son’s life seven years ago, and now he’s saved yours.”

Kevin added: “Wow. I couldn’t believe it! Every­one I have told is like: “No way.” They’re in total disbelief.

“It’s one of those things you can’t explain. It was meant to hap­pen. I’m Catholic, and I believe the Lord kind of set things up. They say things hap­pen for a rea­son, and noth­ing is a coincidence.”

Brown, an intensive-care nurse at Buf­falo Gen­eral Hos­pi­tal, said she can’t think too long about the two inci­dents “with­out being freaked” by it.

“It’s almost impos­si­ble to believe, but I’m very appre­cia­tive of what occurred,” she said. “One good turn deserves another.”

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