WORDS THAT MAKE US FEEL GOOD

[Ferg]

This isn't intended to offend anyone. I just thought it appropriate for our time.

 

 

Subject: Billy Graham and Einstein

 

Billy Graham is now 98 years-old with  Parkinson's disease.    In January 
2000 leaders in  Charlotte , North Carolina invited
their favorite son, Billy Graham, to  a luncheon in his honor.

 

Billy initially hesitated to accept the invitation because he struggles with 
Parkinson's  disease. But the Charlotte leaders
said,   'We  don’t expect a major address.   Just come and let us honor you.’ 
So  he agreed.

 

After wonderful things were said about  him, Dr. Graham stepped to the 
rostrum, looked at the crowd, and said,  "I'm
reminded today of Albert Einstein, the great physicist who this  month has 
been honored by Time  magazine as the Man of the  Century.
Einstein was once traveling from Princeton on a train when the conductor 
came down the aisle, punching the tickets of every
passenger. When he came to Einstein, Einstein reached in his vest pocket. He 
couldn't find his ticket, so he reached in his trouser  pockets.
It wasn't there.  He looked in his  briefcase but couldn't find it.  Then he 
looked in the seat beside  him. He still couldn't find it.
The conductor said, 'Dr.  Einstein, I know who you are. We all know who you 
are. I'm  sure you bought a ticket.   Don't worry about it.'

 

Einstein nodded appreciatively. The conductor continued down the aisle 
punching tickets.  As he was ready to move to the next car, he
turned around and saw the  great physicist down on his hands and knees 
looking under his seat for  his ticket.

 

The conductor rushed back and said,  ‘Dr. Einstein, don't worry.   I know 
who you are; no  problem. You don't need a ticket.
I'm sure you bought  one.'

 

Einstein looked at him and said, "Young  man, I , too, know who I am.  What 
I don't know is where I'm  going.’"

 

Having said that Billy Graham continued,  "See the suit I'm wearing?  It's a 
brand new suit. My children and  my grandchildren are telling
me I've gotten a little slovenly in my old  age. I used to be a bit more 
fastidious. So I went out and bought  a new suit for this luncheon and one 
more
occasion.  You know what that  occasion is? This is the suit in which I'll 
be buried. But when you hear  I'm dead, I don't want you to
immediately remember the suit I'm wearing.  I want you to remember this:  I 
not only know who  I am, I also know where I'm
going.   May your  troubles be less, your  blessings more, and may nothing 
but happiness, come through your door.  Life without God is like an
unsharpened pencil  -  it has no  point.

 

Ferg

 

Amen and peace, my friends.  And may  each of us have lived our lives  so 
that when our ticket is punched we  don't have
to worry about where  we are  going."

 

Even at his age and with Parkinson's  Disease, he could still deliver a 
powerful sermon.
 

 

[garypl]

Thanks for sharing this Ferg - good words to live by...

[Tugadude]

Love it!  Thanks for sharing and God bless you.

[JD62]

Amen brother.

[Sheilajeanne]

Lovely story! I'm going to share that with my friends!

[Hockeymender]

Ferg,

Thanks for posting this! It was very timely. It's so good to know that when it's all said and done......that we know where we are going.