Welcome to Let It Be Easy with Susie Moore.

I'm going to read to you today something that deeply moved me and I'm going to read to you today something that deeply moved me and I believe it's fictional but it could be real and the point of fact or fiction isn't even important here.

It's about really understanding the impact that we have in big and small ways,

often without us even realizing it.

My sister sent me this maybe a couple of years ago and I just I cried when I read it because it's so beautiful and it's so easy for us to forget what it means to be a human who cares for and loves others.

It's called The Cab Ride I'll Never Forget by Kent Nurbin. There was a time in my life 20 years ago when I was driving a cab for a living.

It was a cowboy's life, a gambler's life, a life for someone who wanted no boss, constant movement, and the thrill of a dice roll

every time a new passenger got into the cab. What I didn't count on when I took the job was that

it was also a ministry.

Because I drove the night shift, my cab became a rolling confessional.

Passengers would climb in, sit behind me in total anonymity and tell me of their lives.

Like we were strangers on a train, the passengers and I,

hurtling through the night, revealing intimacies we never would have dreamed of sharing

during the brighter light of day.

I encountered people whose lives amazed me, ennobled me, made me laugh and made me weep.

And none of those lives touched me more than that of a woman I picked up late on a warm August night.

I was responding to a call from a small brick foreplex in a quiet part of town. I assumed I was being sent to pick up some

partiers or someone who had just gotten a fight with a lover or someone going off on an

early shift at some factory for the industrial part of town. When I arrived at the address,

the building was dark except for a single light in a ground floor window.

Under these circumstances, many drivers were just honk once or twice, wait a short minute, and then drive away.

Too many bad possibilities awaited a driver who went to a dark building at 2.30 in the morning. But I had seen too many people trapped in a life of poverty who depended on the

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