Beautiful flowers in the Rift Pot

Our house was directly opposite the entrance of John Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. We stayed bottom floor and rent the rooms upstairs in the patients to the clinic.

One summer evening, when I was preparing dinner, someone knocked on the door. When I opened, which I looked was a man with a face that was apparently bad. "Why, he is also almost just as tall as my 8-year-old," I thought as I watched the body bent and had all these wrinkles. But his face was terrible, so the next big side effect swollen, red and like raw meat., Hiiiihh ...!

But his voice was so gentle fun when he said, "Good night. I was here to see if you have a room for one night only. I came to treatment and arrived from the East coast, and there was no bus again until tomorrow morning. "He said it was trying to find a room since noon without success, no one seems to have a room.

"I think maybe because of my face .. I know it looks terrible, but my doctor says with a few more treatments ... "

For a moment I begin to doubt, but then the next words reassuring and reassured: "Oh, I can sleep in a rocking chair outside of here, on this side veranda. After all, my bus tomorrow morning to have gone. "I told him that we would find the bed for him, to rest on the porch.

I went into the finishing dinner. Once completed, I invited the old man, if he wanted to come eat. "Well, thank you, but I've got quite a lot of food." And he showed me a brown paper bag. Done with the dishes, I was out talking to him a few minutes. Did not take long to see that this old man has a heart too big for her body stuffed into this small.

He told me he caught fish to support her daughter, her five children, and his wife, who had helplessly forever paralyzed by injuries in the spinal cord. He told me it was not to gripe and complain; even real, every sentence is always preceded with thanksgiving to God for a blessing! He was grateful that there is no pain that accompanies the illness, which apparently is a kind of skin cancer. He thanked God that gave him the strength to go forward and survive.

Time for bed, we open the fabric folding camp bed for him dikamar children. The next morning when I woke up, sheets and blankets are neatly folded and the old man was in the veranda. He refused breakfast, but just before he left to take a bus, he paused, as if asking a great favor, he said, "Excuse me, can I come and stay here again next time when I had to go back treatment? I was not going to bother you one bit. Kok I can sleep well in the chair. "He paused and then added," Your children made me feel at home as at home. Adults seemed bothered by my face look bad, but kids do not seem bothered. "

I say please come back any time. When he came back, he arrived in the morning a little after seven o'clock. As a gift, he brought a large fish and a quart of the largest oyster shells I've ever seen. He said, the morning before he left, he skinned it to stay nice and fresh. I know the bus leaves at 4:00 in the morning, what time whether he had to get up to do all this for us. For several years he came and stayed with us, though he never came without bringing us fish or oysters or shellfish vegetables from her garden. Several times we received the shipment in the mail, always by special delivery, fish and oysters wrapped in a box full of spinach leaves or some kind of cabbage, washed clean every strand. Knowing that he had to walk about 5 km to deliver all that, and realized how little income, posts he became more valuable ...

When I received a gift that, often I thought of our neighbors commented on the day he came home when she first arrived. "Ehhh, you thank him overnight, yes, those wonderful disgusting ugly face that? Last night he refused. Oops, damn .., we're going to lose customers if you accept a man like so! "Oh yes, indeed we may lose one or two guests. But if they had known him, perhaps their illnesses would be so much easier to bear. I know our family will always be grateful, and could have known him; from him we learned what it means to accept the bad without complaint, and the good with gratitude to God.

Recently I visited a friend who has a greenhouse. When he showed the plant flowers, we arrived at a chrysanthemum [timum] the most beautiful of all, full of lush flowers covered with golden yellow. But I was amazed, seeing it embedded in an old bucket, a rusty dented too. In my heart I said, "If these plants, will certainly have the most beautiful plant in the pot I have."

But my friend change the way I thought. "Ahh, I'm short the pot at the time," he tried to explain, "and knew it would be lovely, I think does not matter as I use this junk bucket. It's just for a little while, until I planted the garden. "

He must have surprised myself to see I was laughing so excited, but I imagine events and scenarios like that in heaven. "Huh, it's wonderful that good," maybe that's the word of God when He came to the soul of an old fisherman's nice. "He certainly would not mind starting first in this little body." All this happened a long time, then and now, in garden of God, how high should have a good foundation of this sweet soul.

"Not that views human beings who see God; man sees what the eye before, but God sees the heart." (1 Samuel 16:7 b)

Is a very special friend. They make you smile and encourage you to be successful. They lend an ear and share a word of praise. Show your friends how much you care about .. Make someone smile today.

"Your failure is not a reason for GOD to stop loving you"