I was at McDonald's for lunch with my mom last week. We sat and chatted as we always do. I noticed this older lady was sitting near us and seemed to be paying attention to us. As she got up to leave she came by smiling and asked if we were Christian. She asked if I was with my mom. I said yes to both questions. Then she said she would pray for her and produced this knitted cross and gave it to my mom. She told her to keep it for good luck. She asked me to pray for her husband because he only has one and a half kidneys. Then she went on her way. My mom was a bit confused and said 'do I look sick?', which she didn't. We figured it couldn't hurt to have some extra good luck.
Then another man came to sit in the lady's spot. He noticed the cross sitting on the table and started to tell us how he was once given a picture of Mary and being a Christian he kept it. He went on to say how that picture brought him so much luck and even miracles happened to whoever he lent the picture to. What is more interesting is that both these people were Christian Egyptians. They didn't seem to be connected in any way. We have people from all over the world living in the Toronto area.
It was an odd afternoon.
