A Timely “Mis-Delivery”

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Guest Post by Riley Carson

This morning while walking across the living room, I caught my toe on the edge of the coffee table, and fell forward. Fortunately I landed face down on the couch. I didn’t even suffer discomfort, let alone an injury. But I was quite startled. I thought to myself, “That was a lucky fall.” 

About thirty minutes later, a UPS driver left a delivery at our door. We were not expecting any deliveries today. It was a large heavy box from some company named “FallTech”. Their motto is “Fall protection equipment is all we do.” But we hadn’t ordered it.

It turned out to be a mis-delivery. So I called UPS and corrected the situation, but was annoyed that I had to take time out of my planned morning to deal with someone else’s problem.

Then I mentioned to my wife that maybe my fall earlier in the morning was related to a waking dream of getting the FallTech equipment sent to our house. But then I thought, “It’s not much help if the waking dream warning comes AFTER the fall. It’s a little late to be extra careful.”

About an hour later, I went out and bought a large bag of bark mulch. It weighed about 70 pounds. When I got home, and was unloading it from my trunk, I had it in my arms when I suddenly started to lose my balance, falling backwards. I was very fortunate to regain my balance just in time, or I would have fallen straight backward, smacking my back and head onto the concrete driveway, with a 70 pound weight on top of me. 

It’s highly probable the result would have been a broken hip, or back, or cracked skull, or all three.

Then I realized the “incorrect” FallTech delivery of a heavy package was not incorrect at all. It was, in fact, a planned and intentionally orchestrated mis-delivery from some benevolent source beyond my conscious awareness. And coupled with my fall onto the couch, these two incidents were a clear and concise warning that the risk of a real serious fall was near, and to be extra alert and careful. 

At that moment I felt ungrateful for being annoyed by having to deal with a delivery that may well have saved me from very serious injuries.

Or, another way of viewing it: Since the serious fall almost happened, but actually didn’t, this incident was to remind me that I was being protected, and to appreciate it! 

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