Saturday, July 18, 2009

Thanks for the laugh Loma

Grandma is eighty-eight years old and still drives her own car.
She writes:
Dear Grand-daughter,
The other day I went up to our local Christian book store and saw a
"Honk if you love Jesus' bumper sticker "
I was feeling particularly sassy that day because
I had just come from a thrilling choir performance,
followed by a thunderous prayer meeting.
So, I bought the sticker and put it on my bumper.
Boy, am I glad I did; what an uplifting experience that followed.
I was stopped at a red light at a busy intersection,
just lost in thought about the Lord and how good he is,
and I didn't notice that the light had changed.
It is a good thing someone else loves Jesus because
if he hadn't honked, I'd never have noticed.
I found that lots of people love Jesus!
While I was sitting there,
the guy behind started honking like crazy,
and then he leaned out of his window and screamed, '
For the love of God!'
'Go! Go! Go! Jesus Christ, GO!'
What an exuberant cheerleader he was for Jesus!
Everyone started honking!
I just leaned out my window and started
waving and smiling at all those loving people.
I even honked my horn a few times to share in the love!
There must have been a man from Florida back there
because I heard him yelling something about a sunny beach.
I saw another guy waving in a funny way
with only his middle finger stuck up in the air.
I asked my young teenage grandson in the back seat what that meant
He said it was probably a Hawaiian good luck sign or something.
Well, I have never met anyone from Hawaii ,
so I leaned out the window and gave him the good luck sign right back.
My grandson burst out laughing.
Why even he was enjoying this religious experience!!
A couple of the people were so caught up in
the joy of the moment that they got out of
their cars and started walking towards me.
I bet they wanted to pray or ask what church I attended,
but this is when I noticed the light had changed.
So, grinning, I waved at all my brothers and sisters,
and drove on through the intersection.
I noticed that I was the only car that got through
the intersection before the light changed again
and felt kind of sad that I had to leave them after all the love we had shared.
So I slowed the car down, leaned out the window
and gave them all the Hawaiian good luck sign one last time as I drove away.
Praise the Lord for such wonderful folks!!
Will write again soon,
Love, Grandma

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