Moved
The music was pounding, making it virtually impossible to hear anything else. Yet, something else was tickling my ear. So much so, that I decided I should pull the phone from my pocket and look at the screen. That fortuitous look and the conversation that followed moved the course of the evening as well as the celebration.
“The movers didn’t show up today!”
I could feel the tension radiating from my friend Leon Madewell’s voice, as if we were in a nuclear reactor. Leon and Debbie had hired a moving company, found on the internet, several weeks earlier and had paid a sizable deposit. Everything appeared to be moving ahead smoothly until the movers didn’t show-up, offering a promise they’d come the next day.
“When they didn’t show,” Debbie, Leon’s wife, said, “I decided to do some additional background checking. Many former clients have expressed horror driven frustration, saying that once this company had picked up their furniture, they held it for ransom, demanding an additional ten-thousand-dollars to release it! We need your help!”
Moving is always an unmooring and emotional experience. An experience which is hard enough, without adding extortion to the mix. So, with one finger in my right ear and my phone held to my left ear I left the celebration music behind while walking out of the ballroom, thinking.
My thoughts walked back to a conversation with Marty Buchanan, about nine months ago. He told me of Erika Young and made a quick introduction. Marty is a business broker and his clients have worked with Young’s Moving Service on many occasions. He’s one of my most trusted advisors, and I knew, like Marty, she’d do everything possible to help Leon and Debbie.
“I’ll text you my friend Erika’s number,” I spouted out breathlessly. “Call her as soon as possible, because it’s getting late. If anyone can help you tomorrow, she can.”
My call with Leon and Debbie ended and they called Erika at about 6:00 pm on a Thursday night. She answered the call!
And, how she answered!
The next afternoon Leon answered quickly when I called.
“Hi Leon,” I said as soon as he said hello. “How’s your move going?”
“Erika send a bunch of guys! I couldn’t believe how many came on such short notice. They’re unloading the last few items from the truck now! They do amazing work.”
The tension was gone. Leon and Debbie were comfortable and relaxed. The change from nuclear to calm was a moving. Not only was their furniture moved, they were emotionally moved by Erika’s willingness to help strangers on short notice.
I was moved as well. Who would have guessed, nine months ago, that Erika and Marty had begun to generate a moving-miracle?
Are you generating moving-miracles?
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I’m Lynn Butterfield, Real Estate & Lifestyle Expert and Television Host for American Dream TV in Northwest Arkansas. I’ve helped hundreds of Buyers and Sellers, as a real estate agent and Associate Broker with Coldwell Banker, to discover where and how they want to live and work; to achieve what I call Realesation™. That’s why I bring you American Dream TV, Both Sides of the Fence, About the Dish, Monday’s Warm Cocoa and Home by Design Magazine to stir your heart and mind. Contact me so I can join you along your own unique path of discovery.
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