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The story starts out where she, Beth, is sitting at an airport terminal, waiting
to board a plane. She was sitting there with several other people who were
also waiting, whom she did not know.
As she waited, she pulled out her Bible and started reading. All of a sudden she
felt as if the people sitting there around her, were looking at her. She looked
up, but realized that they were looking just over her head, in the direction
right behind her.
She turned around to see what everyone was looking at, and when she did, she saw
a stewardess pushing a wheelchair, with the ugliest old man sitting in it, that
she had ever seen before. She said he had this long white hair that was all
tangled and such a mess. His face was really, really wrinkled, and he didn't
look friendly at all.
She said she didn't know why, but she felt drawn to the man, and thought at
first that God wanted her to witness to him. In her mind she said she was
thinking, "Oh, God, please, not now, not here."
No matter what she did, she couldn't get the man off of her mind, and all of a
sudden she knew what God wanted her to do. She was supposed to brush this old
man's hair.
She went and knelt down in front of the old man, and said "Sir, may I have the
honor of brushing your hair for you?"
He said "What?"
She thought, "Oh great, he's hard of hearing." Again, a little louder, she said,
"Sir, may I have the honor of brushing your hair for you?"
He answered, "If you are going to talk to me, you are going to have to speak up,
I am practically deaf."
So this time, she was almost yelling, "Sir may I please have the honor of
brushing your hair for you?"
Everyone was watching to see what his response would be. The old man just
looked at her confused, and said "Well, I guess if you really want to."
She said, "I don't even have a brush, but I thought I would ask anyway."
He said, "Look in the bag hanging on the back of my chair, there is a brush in
there."
So she got the brush out and started brushing his hair. She has a little girl
with long hair, so she has had lots of practice getting tangles out, and knew
how to be gentle with him. She worked for a long time, until every
last tangle was out.
Just as she was finishing up, she heard the old man crying, and she went and put
her hands on his knees, kneeling in front of him again looking directly into his
eyes, and said "Sir, do you know Jesus?"
He answered, "Yes, of course I know Jesus. You see, my bride told me she
couldn't marry me unless I knew Jesus, so I learned all about Jesus, and asked
Him to come into my heart many years ago, before I married my bride."
He continued, "You know, I am on my way home to go and see my wife. I have been
in the hospital for a long time, and had to have a special surgery in this town
far from my home. My wife couldn't come with me, because she is so frail
herself."
He said, "I was so worried about how terrible my hair looked, and I didn't want
her to see me looking so awful, but I couldn't brush my hair, all by myself."
Tears were rolling down his cheeks, as he thanked Beth for brushing his hair. He
thanked her over and over again.
She was crying, people all around witnessing this were crying, and as they were
all boarding the plane, the stewardess, who was also crying, stopped her, and
asked, "Why did you do that?"
And right there was the opportunity, the door that had been opened to share with
someone else, the love of God. We don't always understand God's ways, but be
ready, He may use us to meet the need of someone else, like He met the need of
this old man, and in that moment, also calling out to a lost soul who needed to
know about His love.
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发表于 2007-9-21 18:44
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