Tuesday, November 17, 2015

Useful Accidents.



On Monday afternoons, my daughter has gymnastics. That evening, I planned to make flatbreads for dinner but in order for that to happen on a gymnastics night, I needed to make the flatbreads the day before or the morning of, which I didn't. So after gymnastics, we made a quick stop at the store to pick up a pizza crust. I grabbed a package of thin crusts, and headed to the check-out with the kids. As I put our items on the belt, I realized that I had inadvertently grabbed two packages! I thought about putting the extra one back, but then decided I could just throw it in the freezer to have for next time.
Fast forward to dinner prep and I opened one of the packages of pizza crust. To my annoyance, it was moldy! As I opened the second one, I prayed it would be edible. And it was. The irony was not lost on me--if I hadn't accidentally grabbed that second package, and decided to keep it anyway, we'd be having a dinner crisis. And if I hadn't opened the moldy one first, it would be in the freezer right now, waiting to give me an unpleasant surprise the next time I decided to make a pizza!

So, what do you make of it? I always say: everything happens for a reason! (Needless to say, I made a quick run to the store this morning before work to return the moldy pizza crust...)

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7 comments:

  1. Glad things worked out. It is annoying when we buy something, get it home, and find out it is not usable. It has happened to me as well.

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  2. I bet if we really stopped to notice it, we'd find many places in our lives where things happened as if they were supposed to -- even if we don't see why at first. Thanks for reminding me of that message!

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  3. Sometimes (most times) the universe gives us exactly what we need. I really believe that, and the more I believe it, the more it happens!

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  4. Serendipity or happenstance is real, you just proved it.

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  5. I'm a firm believer in "everything happens for a reason! " and, in having Jimmy Johns on speed dial ;)

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  6. I'm a firm believer in "everything happens for a reason!" And, in having Jimmy Johns on speed dial! ;)

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  7. Good example of things happening for a reason. Sometimes it is not so easy to see the reason. Sometimes the reason doesn't show up until much later, but I believe, too, that everything happens for a reason.

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