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[iceRedfire]

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@MaggieMack wrote:

@KingstonsMom, there are pessimists and there are optimists. I am thankful I am the latter considering the current circumstances of our world.

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Same here @MaggieMack. 

@KingstonsMom Thanks for sharing this!

[jaxs mom]

Thanks for posting this, it's nice to read something positive on these forums. Although I'm so sorry for this womans loss. I'm glad that she at least had a moment of compassion and love as tried to go about her day. 

[jaxs mom]

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@Plaid Pants2 wrote:

Here's how I see how it  went down.

She pulls up to the window, maybe she is wiping away tears and the employee sees this, or maybe they don't.

"Hi! Welcome to Dutch Bros.! What can I get for you?"

She starts to cry.

"What's wrong?", the employee asks, voice full of concern.

"My husband died last night."

"Oh, no! I'm so sorry to hear that! Would it be okay if we said a prayer for you and your husband?"

"I'd like that very much."

So they pray, and the person in the car next in line, seeing this, takes the picture.

Also, another possibility, she is a regular at that establishment, they know her name, and what her regular coffee drink is, so they felt more comfortable in asking her if they could pray.

Going with that possibility, the employee could have asked how her husband was doing, and then she told them.

• I used to stop by Dutch Bros almost every day. The employees got to know me by name, and if they saw me in line, sometimes they would have my drink already made by the time I pulled up to the window.

If they didn't, then the employee and I would chat while my drink was being made.

So, I think that it's rude to say that this story was made up, or that her privacy was invaded, or that the employees had no right to presume or pray, or any other such nonsense.

Why not just accept this beautiful, touching moment, of one human reaching out to comfort another human being who is hurting?

Especially in light of this weeks events.  

Are we so jaded, that we cannot even accept a moment of beauty without trying to tarnish it?

 How can we expect there  to be peace on Earth, if we cannot even accept a moment of kindness?

If we can not accept the the beauty of a moment of kindness, then all hope for a peaceful Earth really is lost.

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Some people just can't help but see an evil in good. I feel sorry for them. 

[Cakers3]

Instead of trying to convince the nay-sayers, why not just take this lovely story and carry it in your hearts as a reminder that kindness never loses its place in this world and as a reminder that we just never know the sorrow another person carries each day.

We cannot change the world but we can change our perspective.

[ladyroxanne]

how very kind of them.

[inmemoryofmylittlesis]

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@KingstonsMom wrote:

She came for coffee and left with a prayer.

A Facebook post is going viral after a woman in line at a Dutch Bros. Coffee drive-thru in Washington stopped in for a caffeine pick-me-up but got something much more powerful.

"Snapped this picture while waiting in line at the Dutch Bros on 138th Avenue today," Barbara Danner wrote.

"Turns out the young lady in line ahead of us lost her 37-year-old husband last night.

"When the DB guys & gals noticed she was falling apart, they stopped everything and prayed with her for several minutes, invited her to come back for prayer and support, as well as anything else that she might need."

Evan Freeman was one of the baristas who waited on the grieving widow.

"She's like, 'She's just having a really bad day. Her husband passed.' And as soon as she said that, I was like, 'There's nothing more you need to say. We got this. We're going to do what we do every time we get someone who's in pain or hurt. We're going to give them our love,'" he told KPTV.

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I love seeing this kind of story shared.

thanks @KingstonsMom❤️

[RainyDayGal]

I find it to be such an uplifting, heartwarming story of compassion.  And serves as a reminder to always be kind because you never know what someone is going through. Things are not always as they seem.