After
the service yesterday morning, I was talking with an elderly member of the
congregation. He trundles down the road here in his motorised wheelchair,
accompanied on foot by his wife. He told me that today as they were on their
way to church, a man drove past them on the other side of the road, pulled up,
got out of his car, grinned at them, waited for the traffic to pass by, and
crossed over to them. “Do you remember me?” he asked. “You used to teach me
[many years ago when he was at school]. I often drive past you on a Sunday
morning, and it always lifts my spirits.”
“Can
you imagine,” my friend asked me, “that an old man in a wheelchair, with an old
woman walking along beside him, could lift anyone’s spirits?”
Yes,
Bill, I can.
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