She walked with a limp
It was early Sunday morning and I was heading home from a trip to the grocery store. As I turned onto one of our towns main arteries (a four lane highway) it was not very busy this early Sunday morning, I saw a couple on the sidewalk. A man and a woman, probably in their late thirties, holding hands, and looking at traffic to see when it would be safe to cross. As she took a few steps, I noticed that she had a slight limp to her gate and that he seemed to hold her right hand in a supportive way, not just in a casual manner. She had a Bible in her other hand and across the street where they were headed was a church. Behind them in the direction they were coming from was a small mobile home community and apartments for those with disabilities, sponsored by Goodwill Industries.
In those few seconds of taking all this in, I felt emotion almost to tears. They had very little by worldly standards, but they had everything. They had love for each other and their faith. They were sharing their love in the expression of holding onto to each other and they were going to a place that would encourage them to hold fast to their faith. I am sure that they had and will continue to experience the feeling of rejection by most of the world, but they had found a safe haven in each other and their faith.
God gave me my Sunday School lesson today- Love, to be treasured far above worldly riches, to be given and received, nothing else can compare or match the soul satisfaction of love and hope. If you go out of this world having loved greatly, you go out a winner.
Sunshine on the iceberg today. See you in cyber space friend.
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