Hitch Love ❤️ The Hitchhiker & The Thief 😂

Hitch Love ❤️

The Hitchhiker & The Thief 😂

Hey Blog Friends!

Have I got an interesting one for you today!

This is one of those stories that makes you stop, lean in a little closer, and say:

“Wait… WHAT happened?!” 😳😂

Because if there is one thing I have learned about God, it is this:

You cannot put God in a box and tell Him how something has to happen.

God is not limited by our plans, our expectations, our timelines—or even our preferred meeting locations! 😂

He can take the most unexpected circumstances and create something beautiful from them.

Can He do it?

YES!

Somebody say, Amen! 🙏

Well, if nobody else says it…

AMEN! 😂

We have all heard beautiful love stories that make our hearts flutter.

Especially around Christmas!

Turn on one of those holiday romance movies and somebody is always accidentally bumping into somebody at a coffee shop, getting snowed in at a cozy cabin, dropping Christmas packages in the middle of town, or returning home for the holidays and magically discovering that their childhood sweetheart is still single. 😂❤️

By the end of the movie, they are standing under Christmas lights while snow gently falls around them.

And you are sitting on the couch thinking:

“Well, Lord… I went to the grocery store today. Nothing happened.” 😳😂

Those movies will have you putting on your coat, walking outside, looking around the corner, and calling an Uber to take you to the next corner just in case your soulmate is standing over there! 😂

But seriously…

How does a love story begin?

How does the person you eventually love show up in your life?

Scripture says:

“Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the LORD.”

— Proverbs 18:22 KJV

But here’s my question:

What if you find your future wife hitchhiking on the side of the road? 😳

Would you call that a divine connection?

A love match?

Or maybe…

HITCH LOVE ❤️😂

I know! I know!

Some people believe there are only certain acceptable places where you are supposed to meet your person.

At church.

At work.

At the grocery store.

At school.

Through friends.

Maybe online.

But hitchhiking beside the road?

Now that’s a plot twist! 😂

And that brings me to this true story.

THE STORY THAT CAUGHT MY ATTENTION

Working in blood draw, you hear some of the most fascinating stories.

People sit down for what they think will simply be a blood draw, and before you know it, you’re getting a little piece of their life story.

Well, my coworker was drawing blood from a gentleman—a veteran—when he began telling her how he met his wife.

My coworker is a good listener, so naturally she leaned into the conversation.

And when this gentleman started telling his story…

Oh, this was worth listening to!

He explained that when he was a young man, he had taken his father’s car.

Now, when I say taken…

I don’t mean:

“Dad, may I borrow the car?”

No.

He stole his daddy’s car to go joyriding! 😳😂

🚨 SIDE EFFECT #1: Questionable teenage decision-making.

He and his friends were riding down the road enjoying themselves when they spotted a young girl walking along carrying a book bag.

One of his friends suggested they stop and pick her up.

And somehow…

She got into the car.

Now, I wasn’t there, so I can’t tell you exactly what that young lady was thinking.

But my imagination says she might have been sitting there holding that book bag a little tighter than usual. 😂

Maybe looking straight ahead.

Maybe wondering:

“Why did I get in this car?”

And possibly:

“Do these boys even have driver’s licenses?” 😳

🚨 SIDE EFFECT #2: Immediate reconsideration of life choices. 😂

But they kept driving.

And then…

THE CAR BROKE DOWN.

Yep.

The stolen car.

The joyride.

The friends.

The hitchhiker.

Everybody was now sitting on the side of the road.

Can you imagine that young man’s face?

He probably got out, lifted the hood, stared at that engine like he knew exactly what he was doing…

You know that look:

“Hmmmm…”

Meanwhile, he probably didn’t know a radiator from a windshield wiper. 😂

And eventually reality had to hit him.

“I have to call my father.”

Ohhhhhhh Lord! 😳

🚨 SIDE EFFECT #3: Sudden sweating.

Because now he had to explain:

“Dad…

I took your car.

I’m somewhere I’m not supposed to be.

The car broke down.

My friends are here.

And…

Ummm…

We picked up a hitchhiker.” 😂😂😂

At that point, I probably would have just started walking and changed my name.

But he called his father.

And his father came.

Now, I wasn’t there, so I can’t tell you exactly what Daddy said when he arrived.

But as a parent myself…

I can imagine the facial expression. 😳

Daddy apparently assessed the situation and made an executive parental decision:

Everybody out!

And they had to WALK.

😂😂😂

No Uber.

No Lyft.

No roadside romance limousine.

Walk!

So there they were…

The young man.

His friends.

And the young hitchhiker.

Walking down the road together.

And somewhere during that walk, the young man looked at the girl and offered to carry her book bag.

Well…

I guess it was the least he could do! 😂

After all, the girl had gotten into a stolen car, survived the breakdown, met somebody’s angry daddy, got put out of the vehicle, and now had to walk!

Sir, you BETTER carry that book bag! 😂

But somewhere between that broken-down car…

that long walk…

and that book bag…

something happened.

They connected.

They eventually fell in love.

And that young hitchhiker became his wife.

46 YEARS. ❤️

Yes!

That unexpected roadside encounter eventually became a marriage that lasted 46 years.

Now tell me God doesn’t have a sense of humor!

A young man steals his father’s car.

A girl needs a ride.

The car breaks down.

Daddy comes.

Everybody gets put out.

A young man carries a girl’s book bag.

And somewhere inside all of that chaos…

a love story begins.

Who could have written that?

You couldn’t have planned it.

You couldn’t have scheduled it.

You couldn’t have swiped right for it.

And you certainly couldn’t have predicted it.

Sometimes the beginning of something beautiful doesn’t look beautiful at all.

Sometimes it looks inconvenient.

Sometimes it looks completely out of order.

Sometimes it looks like a broken-down car on the side of the road.

Yet somehow, years later, you look back and realize:

That was the beginning. ❤️

Now, before anybody gets inspired—please don’t go stealing your daddy’s car or hitchhiking down the highway looking for a spouse! 😂

That is NOT the lesson!

But perhaps the lesson is that we shouldn’t become so committed to how something has to happen that we fail to recognize something beautiful when it arrives differently than we expected.

God’s creativity is bigger than our little boxes.

And sometimes life writes a story that nobody would believe…

unless it were true.

Lauretta’s Aha Moment 💡❤️

Never judge the whole story by the strange way the first chapter begins.

What started with a stolen car, a hitchhiker, a breakdown, and a long walk became a 46-year marriage.

The car didn’t make it…

but the relationship did. 😂❤️

Now THAT is what I call…

HITCH LOVE ❤️

Or maybe…

The Hitchhiker & The Thief! 😂

Written by Lauretta Scott

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