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LONG BUT WELL WORTH IT. PLEASE READ TO THE END
This message is wonderful, it made me cry.........
Our house was directly across the street from the clinic entrance of
Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore.=A0 We lived downstairs and rented
the upstairs rooms to out patients at the clinic. =A0=A0=A0=A0 One
summer evening as I was fixing supper, there was a knock at the door.=A0
I opened it to see a truly awful looking man.=A0 "Why, he's hardly
taller than my 8-year-old," I thought as I stared at the stooped,
shriveled body.=A0 But the appalling thing was his face, lopsided from
swelling, red and raw.
=A0=A0=A0 Yet his voice was pleasant as he said, "Good evening.=A0 I've
come to see if you've a room for just one night.=A0 I came for a
treatment this morning from the eastern shore, and there's no bus 'til
morning."
=A0=A0=A0=A0 He told me he'd been hunting for a room since noon but with
no success, no one seemed to have a room.=A0 "I guess it's my face ... I
know it looks terrible, but my doctor says with a few more treatments
..."
=A0=A0=A0=A0 For a moment I hesitated, but his next words convinced me:
"I could sleep in this rocking chair on the porch.=A0 My bus leaves
early in the morning."
=A0=A0=A0=A0 I told him we would find him a bed, but to rest on the
porch.=A0 I went inside and finished getting supper.=A0 When we were
ready, I asked the old man if he would join us.=A0 "No, thank you.=A0 I
have plenty."=A0 And he held up a brown paper bag. =A0=A0=A0=A0 When I
had finished the dishes, I went out on the porch to talk with him a few
minutes.=A0 It didn't take a long time to see that this old man had an
oversized heart crowded into that tiny body.=A0
He told me he fished for a living to support his daughter, her 5
children, and her husband, who was hopelessly crippled from a back
injury. =A0=A0=A0=A0 He didn't tell it by way of complaint; in fact,
every other sentence was preface with a thanks to God for a blessing.=A0
He was grateful that no pain accompanied his disease, which was
apparently a form of skin cancer.=A0 He thanked God for giving him the
strength to keep going. =A0=A0=A0
At bedtime, we put a camp cot in the children's room for him.=A0 When I
got up in the morning, the bed linens were neatly folded and the little
man was out on the porch. =A0=A0=A0=A0 He refused breakfast, but just
before he left for his bus, haltingly, as if asking a great favor, he
said, "Could I please come back and stay the next time I have a
treatment?=A0 I won't put you out a bit.=A0 I can sleep fine in a
chair."=A0 He paused a moment and then added, "Your children made me
feel at home.=A0 Grownups are bothered by my face, but children don't
seem to mind." =A0=A0=A0=A0 I told him he was welcome to come again.
=A0=A0=A0=A0
And, on his next trip, he arrived a little after 7 in the morning.=A0 As
a gift, he brought a big fish and a quart of the largest oysters I had
ever seen!=A0 He said he had shucked them that morning before he left so
that they'd be nice and fresh.=A0 I knew his bus left at 4:00 a.m. and I
wondered what time he had to get up in order to do this for us.
=A0=A0=A0=A0 In the years he came to stay overnight with us, there was
never a time that he did not bring us fish or oysters or vegetables from
his garden.
=A0=A0=A0=A0 Other times we received packages in the mail, always by
special delivery; fish and oysters packed in a box of fresh young
spinach or kale, every leaf carefully washed.=A0 Knowing that he must
walk 3 miles to mail these, and knowing how little money he had made the
gifts doubly precious.
=A0=A0=A0 When I received these little remembrances, I often thought of
a comment our next-door neighbor made after he left that first morning.
=A0=A0=A0=A0 "Did you keep that awful looking man last night?=A0 I
turned him away!=A0 You can lose roomers by putting up such people!"
=A0=A0=A0=A0 Maybe we did lose roomers once or twice.=A0 But, oh!, if
only they could have known him, perhaps their illnesses would have been
easier to bear.
=A0=A0=A0=A0 I know our family always will be grateful to have known
him; from him we learned what it was to accept the bad without complaint
and the good with gratitude to God.
=A0=A0=A0=A0 Recently I was visiting a friend, who has a greenhouse, as
she showed me her flowers, we came to the most beautiful one of all, a
golden chrysanthemum, bursting with blooms.=A0 But to my great surprise,
it was growing in an old dented, rusty bucket.=A0 I thought to myself,
"If this were my plant, I'd put it in the loveliest container I had!"
=A0=A0=A0=A0 My friend changed my mind.=A0 "I ran short of pots," she
explained, "and knowing how beautiful this one would be, I thought it
wouldn't mind starting out in this old pail.=A0 It's just for a little
while, till I can put it out in the garden." =A0=A0=A0=A0 She must have
wondered why I laughed so delightedly, but I was imagining just such a
scene in heaven. =A0=A0=A0=A0 "Here's an especially beautiful one," God
might have said when he came to the soul of the sweet old fisherman.=A0
"He won't mind starting in this small body." =A0=A0=A0=A0 All this
happened long ago - and now, in God's garden, how tall this lovely soul
must stand.
=A0=A0=A0=A0 The LORD does not look at the things man looks at.=A0 Man
looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart." (1
Samuel 16:7b)
=A0=A0=A0=A0 Friends are very special.=A0 They make you smile and
encourage you to succeed.=A0 They lend an ear and they share a word of
praise.=A0 Show your friends how much you care.=A0 Pass this on, and
brighten someone's day.
=A0=A0=A0=A0 Nothing will happen if you do not decide to pass it
along.=A0 The only thing that will happen if you DO pass it on is that
someone might smile (because of you).
=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0Every Day is a BLESSING, for:
=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0GOD IS....!!! <sMILe>
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