Grandma Still Drives --

[jimsch]

Grandma is eighty-eight years old
and still drives her own car. She
writes:


Dear Granddaughter,
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 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 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 lots of people love
Jesus! While I was sitting there, the guy behind me
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
probably a Hawaiian good luck sign or something. 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
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 I was the only car that got through the
intersection before the light changed again and felt kind of
sad 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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