THAT WAS AWESOME! REALLY MADE ONE THINK.
Jenifer gilley
"Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble
remembering how to fly."
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Rhonda Partain" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, April 14, 2006 3:40 PM
Subject: Are You Jesus?
> Wouldn't
> you love for someone to think you were Jesus?
> What an inspiration!
> This is really powerful and makes one think!!
> A few years ago a group of salesmen went to a regional sales convention
> in Chicago. They had assured their wives that they would be home in
> plenty of time for Friday night's dinner. In their rush, with tickets
> and briefcases, one of these salesmen inadvertently kicked over a table
> which held a display of apples. Apples
> flew everywhere. Without stopping or looking
> back, they all managed to reach the plane in time for their nearly missed
> boarding.
>
> ALL BUT ONE !!!
>
> He paused, took a deep breath, got in touch with his feelings, and
> experienced a twinge of compassion for the girl whose apple stand had
> been overturned.
>
> He told his buddies to go on without him, waved good-bye, told one of
> them to call his wife when they arrived at their home destination and
> explain his taking a later flight. Then he returned to the terminal
> where the apples were all over the terminal floor.
>
> He was glad he did.
>
> The 16 year old girl was totally blind! She was softly crying, tears
> running down her cheeks in frustration, and at the same time helplessly
> groping for her spilled produce as the crowd swirled about her, no one
> stopping
> and no one to care for her plight.
>
> The salesman knelt on the floor with her, gathered up the apples, put
> them back on
> the table and helped organize her display. As he did this,
> he noticed that many of them had become battered and bruised; these he set
> aside in another basket.
>
> When he had finished, he pulled out his wallet and said to the girl,
> "Here, please take this $40 for the damage we did. Are you okay! ?" She
> nodded through her tears. He continued on with, "I hope we didn't spoil
> your
> day too badly."
>
> As the salesman started to walk away, the bewildered blind girl called
> out to him, "Mister...." He paused and turned to look back into those
> blind eyes. She continued, "Are you Jesus?"
>
> He stopped in mid-stride, and he wondered. Then slowly he made his way
> to catch the later flight with that question burning and bouncing about
> in his soul: "Are you Jesus?"
>
> Do people mistake you for Jesus? That's our destiny, is it not?
> To be so much like Jesus that people cannot tell the difference as we
> live and interact with a world that is blind to His love, life and grace.
>
> If we claim to know Him, we should live, walk and act as He would.
> Knowing Him is more than simply quoting Scripture and going to church.
>
> It's actually living the Word as life unfolds day to day.
>
> You are the apple of His eye even though we, too, have been bruised by
> fall.
> He stopped what He was doing and picked you and me up on a hill
> called Calvary and paid in full for our damaged fruit.
>
> Let us live like we are worth the price He paid!!!!!
>
> God bless and have a great day,
>
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