"Three Days Later "
Patt Barnes came across an
old flower lady one Easter
Sunday morning sitting in her
usual place inside a small
archway. At her feet corsages
and boutonnieres were
displayed on top of a spread-open
newspaper.
The flower lady was smiling,
her wrinkled old face alive
with some inner joy. On impulse
Patt said to her, "My,
you look happy this morning!"
"Why not?" she answered. "Everything is good."
She was dressed so shabbily
and seemed so very old that
Patt couldn't help saying, "Don't you have any troubles?"
"You can't reach my age and
not have troubles," she replied. "Only it's like Jesus and
Good Friday. When Jesus was
crucified on Good Friday, that
was the worst day for the
whole world. When I get troubles,
I remember that, and
then I think of what happened
only three days later — Easter
and our Lord arising. So when
things go wrong, I've learned
to wait three days...and somehow
everything gets much
better."
Patt Barnes goes on to write, "She smiled good-bye, but her
words still follow me whenever
I think I have troubles...Give God a chance to
help...wait three days."
That sounds like a good approach
to life. What do you
think?
Each moment spent in the love
and care of God is a moment
of eternity.
(As related by Timothy C.
Walker in The Stained Glass
Gospel.)
--Pastor Ivan Blake |
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