It’s probably happened to you. It happens to a lot of people, whether they realize it or not. Most of the time, they don’t. It happened to me.

On April 26, the Spirit caught me walking.

I was on my way back to the car after Eureka’s Rhododendron Parade, and I found myself nowhere near where I’d parked. I made left turns and right turns with complete determination, but with no idea where I was going. And then I stopped. At my feet was a large well-made Italian purse sitting on the sidewalk. The top was slightly open and I could see something shiny inside. Looking around, I could see nobody else on the street. The obvious thought went through my mind, and I immediately heard “That ain’t what I brought you for.”

Picking the purse up, I walked a little ways to a nearby gate and pulled the bellcord, with no idea who lived there. An old lady came to the door with a very worried look on her face, and when I held up the purse she nearly burst into tears. She’d been looking for it all afternoon, and with Eureka’s foot population at an all-time high during the Rhody Parade, I had no idea how many people must have walked right past it and somehow nobody stole it. But nobody returned it either. Somehow, nobody saw it until the right person was taken there.

Let the Spirit catch you walking now and then. No matter where it takes you, someone needs you there.