I sighed. I’d been job hunting for nearly a month without any luck at all. Now a homeless man had sat down next to me at the bus stop. I studied the classified ads, purposely ignoring him.
“Finding a job is hard,” the man said. “Sometimes life ain’t fair.
I looked at him. His clothes were worn, but he had a kind face. He was just down on his luck, like me. Suddenly I found myself telling him all about my job search. The man handed me a newspaper.
“These folks are looking for someone just like you,” he said. He pointed to an ad circled in red.
I took the paper and climbed on the bus. He didn’t follow. He wasn’t at the stop, either. I asked the driver if he had seen where the man went, but he said there hadn’t been anyone with me at the stop.
I got the job from the ad circled in red and have been employed there since—thanks to that mysterious man.
This article is excerpted from Angels on Earth Daily Planner.
