Valentines Alone On A New York Subway
My friends and I got to the subway a while ago after a long night of exploring NY, it was 11:30pm and the train I was supposed to catch only ran until 12am. I asked a stranger which platform I was supposed to go to, and he pointed to the one opposite him. Then he looks at me and says, “Do you know about God?” I said that believed in God, because I really didn’t know how to respond to it. He then smiled and said, “Well, if someone asks you about it again, be sure that it’s not a coincidence.”
After that I found out that I missed the train that I needed to ride on’s last stop, I got lost trying to navigate the subway whose trains change schedules after midnight. Four hours later, I finally found my way to the station near my aunts house. I ended up staying in a 24 hours dunkin donuts, which is the only place open at 4am.
It had four tables. All of them had sleeping men who were probably stranded and needed to wait out the snow storm since there were no buses or taxis that were accepting passengers anymore at that time. I sat down in one of the tables, feeling really drained out when I noticed the guy on the other seat was only wearing socks and slippers. It was -12 degrees outside. I realized at that moment that he was homeless.
A lot of things ran through my head, and then they had to stop because an black guy who just walked in called out to me from the other table, and said ” Are you a Christian?” I was caught off-guard, but I told him yes and I asked how he knew. He then said, “Because no one from around here would sit next to homeless man and smile at him while he’s sleeping like that. You have to have God within you to do something like that. Empathy. Now, I really believe in God. I really, really believe in God, and I see Him in you.”
I then got a call from my aunt saying she had arrived in front of the store. I felt like crying all of a sudden. On the dawn on Valentines day, I went through a terrible experience of getting literally lost in the middle of a snow storm in a country I barely knew, but He found me today. He was blatantly telling me to spend tonight with Him.
So I guess today, I’m asking that we pray for those who seek love to find it through unlikely people, for those who seek to give love find that it doesn’t necessarily have to be given to only person, and for those asking for a sign that they become more sensitive to His will.
