*cue the spooky music*

I believe in these Lenten times of deeper prayer and separating oneself from the world there are no coincidences.

Yesterday my mother got a kind phone call from a sweet sounding woman, asking if she would give a name of someone in her life who needed healing.

"Do I need to give you any money?"  My mom likes to cut to the chase, lol.

No, the kind lady said, we pray for the person you list and send the names to Lourdes. She said she was from a certain missionary group, Our Lady of the Snows perhaps? and that the name she gives would be prayed for at masses in Lourdes.

My mom asked if she could list more than one name, and proceed to list herself and my dad, my family members, my brother's, her brother, all who need healing...twenty minutes later, after telling her about us, the kind lady on the phone said that was great and that she was doing this to repay my Mom for all the many donations she had made in the past.

"Ummmmm....

I think you have the wrong person!"

My mom had never given to this organization in her life.

"Oh!  The name we have here is M________  K_______."

Ahhhh, it was my grandmother, my mom's mother-in-law, who passed away a few years ago at the age of 96.  My mom related this information to the woman and then said, "I guess I have to forgive her now for all the mean things she did to me."

The woman on the other end was silent for a moment, then couldn't stop laughing. "I can't wait to tell everyone this story at lunch!" she said. LOL!

So what my Grandmother did years ago is paying dividends today, and we not only are getting prayed for at Lourdes, but we got a good laugh in the process.

I had prayed yesterday for a gift from Our Lady. I did not get what I asked for, but this is better.