A couple of mine...by Andrew

This did not happen today, but it was a great sgbd moment and I think a good one to start with (My sgbd moment for today will follow).

A few days ago our van was nearly out of gas and I volunteered to go fill it up. Since it runs on CNG we have to go to a special filling station that is about 5 miles away. On my way there i was driving over a hill and I came across a dog that was running in the middle of the street. Fortunately, I saw it in time for me to slow down and not hit it. The without much thought I pulled into the first side street and parked so that I could try to catch the dog. Someone else with the same idea pulled up right behind me and we proceeded to entice the dog to come over to us. We were eventually able to grab the collar and check for tags. We found that there were no tags or any other way to determine where the dog had come from. We had gone through too much work to simply let the dog go and drive away and neither of us wanted the dog to get hurt so we started considering what to do. After a short period where few ideas came up, I told the man that I would put the dog in my van and go into a neighborhood and see if anyone recognized the dog. (had I not been caught up in the sgbd spirit I don't think I would have offered to do this considering that the gas gauge was on "E," I had no idea where the dog lived, and it could well take me hours to find it's owner.) I didn't know where to go so I made three left turns and ended up in a neighborhood. I began to realize what I had committed to doing and started having doubts about whether I could find the owner. But I didn't want to give up. I walked to the closest house and talked to a lady sitting outside. She had never seen the dog before and I was getting ready to go to another house when I red BMW drove by. The driver stopped when he saw me and the dog and it turned out that it was the owner of the dog. The owner told me that he had been looking for the dog for half an hour and that he couldn't thank me enough for helping him find his dog. Looking back on it now, I had several sgbd moments (first of all to stop and get the dog, then to go to the neighborhood that I did, and to go to the house that I did) and, amazingly, the experience only took me about 15 minutes. And I did not run out of gas before I got the the station.

My sgbd for today occurred in church. Like in Kathy's church, we had a testimony meeting today. One of the first people to get up was a young women. This particular young women wasn't exactly on my lists of favorites. I don't really know why I didn't think too highly of her, but I just didn't. I hardly ever speak to her even though I see her most every week at church. She has friends though so I didn't feel too bad about not talking to her a such. Like I said, she was one of the first people to get up and bear their testimony. She revealed to the audience that she was going through a hard time in her life and that she had been diagnosed with extreme depression, anxiety, and OCD. She went on to talk about how the church had always been there for her and such. It was an awakening moment for me. I realized that I had truly misunderstood and made assumptions about what was going on in her life. I really felt kind of ashamed. The prompting came to me that I should send her a message thanking her for bearing her testimony and apologizing for not really being her friend. I sent her a facebook message when I got home from church. I have yet to find out what will become of the experience, but I am glad that I acted on the prompting.