She is eighty-eight years old and still drives her own car.
She writes:
Dear Grand-daughter,
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 that
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 that 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 that lots of people love Jesus!
While I was sitting there, the guy behind 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 bursted 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 that 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,
I waved at all my brothers and sisters, and drove on, grinning, through
the intersection.
I noticed that I was the only car that got through the
intersection before the light changed again and felt kind of sad
that 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