Theme: Divine Providence, Prayer
The delay
Murilo woke up early, as usual. He was a good man,
hardworking, diligent and religious too.
He used to say the Our Father Prayer after waking up and
asking for protection from the day's activities. After
praying, Murilo got ready and went to the kitchen for
breakfast. He didn't want to be late, because once he
got to the company, he'd have a meeting with his boss.
Murilo ate bread and butter and washed an apple for a
snack. But when he went to drink his coffee carelessly,
he let the cup turn and poured the drink into his shirt.
He regretted it because he wanted to go to work with
that nice shirt. But he had to change it.
Eyeing the clock, Murilo began to pick up his things to
leave soon. He took out his briefcase with the meeting
papers, his cell phone, his wallet... Only the house key
was missing.
He searched, searched, but did not find it. It was not
on the table near the door where the keys were, nor
anywhere. Murilo knew the key was lost at home because
he had used it the day before.
- If the key is here at home, I'll find it! - he
thought.
But after a few minutes of searching, Murilo remembered
the meeting. Already worried about the time, decided to
give up looking. Since his wife always came home after
him, Murilo decided to ask her to leave her key or his
key at their neighbor´s house, if she could find it.
And so Murilo finally left the house fast to make up for
the missing minutes and get to the bus stop in time.
However, Murilo met a very friendly friend along the
way, whom he had not seen in a long time.
Murilo was polite, but under those conditions he even
thought of pretending that he had not seen his friend,
he was very worried about his delay. Anyway, the friend
had seen him too and waving happily, approached to hug
him.
They talked for a while, and Murilo, making it clear
that he was in a hurry because of an important
appointment, promised to see him soon for a visit.
They said goodbye and Murilo continued his journey. But
as he looked at his watch, he was nervous. It was late.
The bus would probably have passed.
Almost running along the sidewalk, he shifted his way
and headed for another street to take another bus line.
Unable to avoid, he was thinking:
- What an annoying thing! It seems that everything is
happening for me to be late today. Just today that is
the day of the meeting! That's because I pray! Looking
up, as if he was speaking to God, he said in a
complaining tone: "It can´t be!"
Murilo took the other bus, got off as soon as he could,
ran, and yet arrived five minutes late. But he was
relieved when he realized that his boss had not arrived
yet.
When the boss arrived, he apologized, explaining that he
had been stuck in a traffic jam that had formed on the
avenue near the company due to a serious accident.
Only later, Murilo learnt that one of the vehicles
involved in the accident was precisely that bus he had
missed.
He was startled by the news, he considered what had
occurred to him in the morning. He remembered the
phrases he had said praying, "Thy will be done on earth
as it is in heaven" and "deliver us from all evil."
That was a day of deep thought for Murilo about Divine
Providence and the value of prayer.
At night with his wife at home, his prayer was of deep
gratitude.
Translation:
Larissa Martine - larissa_am@hotmail.com
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