Monday, June 16, 2014

Grandma Still Drives

 
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  a  Hawaiian good luck sign.     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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