Checking out

The other day I read an article about a rabbi who always seized the moment to teach his son about G-d and faith. One time, the two of them were at a hotel when they heard an announcement blared over the loudspeaker.
"Will Mr. X. please stop at the reception before checking out?"
The rabbi turned to his son and explained, "the man is being reminded to pay the bill before he checks out from the hotel. Similarly, we will have to pay the bill when we check out of this world after 120 years.
Everyday incidents can be viewed as happenstance or can be seen in terms of the Divine presence guiding every action. Let's be able to see the hand of G-d in our everyday lives. Let's not despair as far as our prospects for a shidduch, our financial circumstances, and so on. Because Divine intervention can come in the blink of an eye and when you least expect it.

In a one-in-a-million twist of fate, a Bronx nurse welcoming a terminal-cancer patient to her unit discovered he was her long lost father, who had vanished when she was just months old.
"It was fate and hope and a miracle. It was like God answered my prayers," exclaimed Victor Peraza, whose daughter, Wanda Rodriguez, discovered him fighting for his life in a bed at Calvary Hospital on Aug. 25.
Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/bronx/nurse_patient_is_long_lost_pa_QfB4gtuJEOX1wdLixCPGkJ#ixzz0ycReWtk9