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AN INCREDIBLE SURPRISE
Submitted by: Zane G
Pueblo, Colorado, USAIn December 2007, I urged the board of directors for the charity of which I am the executive director to purchase a building for our nonprofit. The building I found needed a lot of work, and we would have to take a new mortgage, which was making all of us very nervous, but we proceeded on faith and trust.
While we were traveling over Christmas, my wife and I were in an automobile accident and totaled our car far from home. Over the past several months, many of our friends had urged us to read The Secret. After our car accident, we knew we were attracting something that needed to change, so we purchased the audio version of the book and listened to it as we traveled back home. I was so excited about the concept of the Gratitude Journal that I purchased one for both of us. On January 1, 2008, on the first page, I listed all the things I already had for which I was grateful, and on the opposite page, headed Gratitude Intentions, I wrote, “I am so grateful for the $75,000 my charity received for our new building on March 31, 2008.” Note that this was on January 1, so I was indicating in the present tense my gratitude for a monetary gift we hadn’t yet received.
On March 15, 2008, I was contacted by a local foundation that had heard about our plans for the new building. The foundation wanted to help and asked that I arrange a meeting with my board members on March 25 to discuss the matter further. Keeping in mind that we did not solicit any help from this foundation but rather were sought out, we met on March 25 and were presented with a letter indicating that the foundation wanted to pay off the mortgage on our new building so that we could focus all our attention on our fund-raising efforts. Even more astonishing, they would be making two payments: we would be receiving $75,000 on March 31, the last day of their fiscal year, and the balance on April 1, the first day of the new fiscal year!