TODD VESELY <twvesely@mymail.net>: Chain of Love

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>  You know, he almost didn't see the old lady, stranded on 
> the side of the road

I came *this close* to hitting a homeless lady with the church van.  I
was about two blocks from the church on a foggy, rainy night, and the
lady (I can't remember her name off-hand) was wearing her usual
wardrobe of dark clothing.  One of the kids looking out the side window
saw her lurch from the sidewalk into the street and screemed at me.  If
I hadn't of swerved, she'd have been a goner.  :-/

>  Well, all she had was a flat tire, but for an old lady, 

Another time when I was driving the church van I pulled over to help an
old lady with a flat tire (I had no passengers -- was on my way from
home to work).  The van has "APOSTOLIC LIFE UNITED PENTECOSTAL CHURCH"
in big letters and I was wearing a suit, but the poor old lady
scurried into her car and locked the doors as soon as I pulled over.

I convinced her I wasn't about to attack her and did change her tire
and we chatted for a bit.  Like the woman in the story, this lady also
insisted that she pay me; I declined.

I try to help people out when I can (and sometimes when I can't).  When
my wife and I were in college and broke, there were a few times when my
wife would get stranded.  My  wife's car broke down in a busy
intersection in Wichita Falls one sunny Sunday afternoon.  She got out
and pushed her old 1971 Plymouth Valiant off the road by herself.  All
the wonderful baptists driving home after dinner at Luby's had better
things to do then help a woman in distress; God forbid they wrinkle
their Sunday finery and not look their best in church that night.

On another Sunday afternoon I got my van stuck in a snowy ditch outside
of a Carrow's restaurant.  Again, the parking lot was full of upright
"christian" types.  This time, a pickup truck with cussin, chewin
rednecks (think "Samaritans") pulled over and helped me pull the van
out.  If the "christians" would have helped, they might have been late
to church or something God bless 'em.

(long time members of H-F know that Christian compassion beyond the
bounds of our comfort zone is a big deal to me.)

> She knew how worried her husband was, and as he lay sleeping next to
> her, she gave him a soft kiss and whispered soft and low, "Everything's
> gonna be alright, I love you Joe."

Ooooh, wow.

Richard Masoner