October 12, 2006
Dear Moxie,
The other day I went up to a local Christian bookstore 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 practice followed by a powerful prayer
meeting, so I bought the sticker and put it on my bumper.
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. Why, while I was sitting
there, the nice man behind started honking like crazy, and he leaned
out of his window and screamed, "for the love of God, GO! GO!" What an exuberant cheerleader he was for the Lord.
Everyone started honking! I just leaned out of my window and started waving and smiling at all these 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 man waving in a funny way with only his middle finger stuck up in the air. When I asked my teenage grandson in the back seat what that meant, he said that it was an Hawaiian good luck sign or something.
Well, I've never met anyone from Hawaii, so I leaned out the window and gave him the good luck sign 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 I waved to all my sisters and brothers, smiled at them all, and
drove on through the intersection.
I noticed I was the only car that got through the intersection before
the light changed again, and I 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 of 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!
Cleva
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