We are God's hands and feet in this world

I visited ANZ bank this morning to get our car insurance and thought I'll also dig out some information on the mortgage loan we could borrow from them. I was alittle disappointed they would not consider my allowance as income. I was going to head straight home but as I was riding on the escalator down to the train station, I just felt this nagging feeling within me to go enquire with BankWest. I was half decided on going as I was literally at the front of the tagging barricade... In the end, I followed that inner voice within me and turned around. It proved to be God's blessing for me today.

At BankWest, I was told quite matter of factly that there were no mortgage consultants available to speak with me and that I would need to fix an appointment for the afternoon. I wasn't prepared to stay in the city till then and so I left. Prior to that though, I noticed an elderly lady standing around looking very perplexed. I approached her and asked if I could help her out, something I wouldn't normally do but somehow I just did... Goosh, she spoke not a word of english and a string of cantonese came spilling out from her mouth. I was like: "Hua yu (Mandarin)?" Was I glad she knew alittle... She showed me a MediBank card but I had no idea what she was gesticulating and cantonesing (If there's such a word) about. We headed towards one of the bank staff, who on seeing the card, immediately pointed us towards the direction of the Medibank branch located within the same building. "Oh my, why didn't it ocurr to me that she wanted to go there..."

I offered to take her there and through our conversation, interjected with her cantonese and my awful mandarin, I found out that she was from Hong Kong and coincidentally, she had 3 children staying in Singapore. I was thinking to myself: "My goosh... She is in Australia but knows not a word of English... how does she survive?" As I left her, it then occurred to me that we are God's hands and feet in this world. We are there to help others in need and I'm sure many others before me had helped Madam Lai (saw her name on the MediBank card) get around here in Perth.

Thank you for that blessing Lord!