Our Christmas Goddess Miracle

On Christmas Eve last night we shopped at a local supermarket. When we were putting our things into the car an old woman approached us and asked whether the bottle of soda pop laying on the ground belonged to us. It didn’t. She took it herself.

Then, she asked us if we could drive her home.

In her shopping cart there were four packages of bottled water on special sale and a few other items. Plus her found bottle of soda. She said that she walked to the store from her home, and planned to walk back.

But, we came along.

We loaded her things into the vehicle and drove her home. In checking the route it turned out that it was a 1.3 mile trip.

The amazing thing is that those packages of bottle water each weighted 29 pounds. That’s 116 pounds; a total of around 120 pounds counting the other items.

Imagine: That old women was going to walk back home in the frigid night air 1.3 miles pulling a 120 pound grocery cart. It was cold. And, in the dark! [Hey, it was on special sale, after all.]

Her name is Meenakshi, of Indian descent. 

Seems the legend of the Goddess Meenakshi tells of her travelling a bit too.