Tuesdays Words of Encouraging Talk

My aunt has a blog, Treasure, and she showed me the 'link party' at Call Me Blessed so I decided to give it a
try;

    I have always been a free-spirit, I'm outgoing and talk to every stranger on the street I see whether they have a frown or a smile, be man or woman, old or young. I try to make contact with all in hopes that it will spice up my day as well as theirs. Most of the people I talk to talk back but its once in a blue moon that someone else approaches me.
  I suppose there must have been a blue moon the other night because I was walking on the covered bridge with my friend around 3 in the afternoon when a young man of about 20 came up to me and asked if he could barrow my phone to make a quick call, willingly I handed him my phone and asked him to just make sure he didn't leave the bridge with it.
  Me and my friend then sat of the bridge bench and waited for the man to be done with his call. It was about 3 minutes before he walked back to us, with tears in his eyes. As he slipped my phone in back into my hand I put my palm over his and asked what was wrong, concern coloring my voice. He looked up at me and smiled the biggest smile I'd ever seen, the tears freely flowing down now. He told me that that call had been to a man about a job and, because he called so soon he got the job. The man on the bridge then swept in up in the big hug thanking me for letting him use my phone and telling me that, even though it mustn't of seemed like too big of a deal to me, if I had hadn't let him make that call he wouldn't have gotten the job and he and his girlfriend would have been throw out of their house with a newborn. He then went on to show me pictures of his family and tell me about the job. After about a half an hour the man left to tell his girl the good news.

  This encounter really got me thinking; I never thought twice about giving the man my phone, but say I had? Say I had decided it was too risky and I told the man no? He wouldn't have gotten the job and him and his new family would be a lot worse off right now. The thing is though, I didn't say no, I took a risk and I changed someones life with a simple yes.
  So this Tuesday as you read my story it is my hope that you are encouraged to take a chance on your fellow human beings. After all, one yes could change a life and what is it we were set on this earth for if not to learn to work together, bettering the life's of those around us.

Ghandi