Me: Celebrating football playoffs?
Prodigal: Yep, and you know I have to say GO CAROLINA!
Me: Well I have a story that involves NFL football players.
Prodigal: I am ready to hear!
This comes from the book Stories for the Heart complied by Alice Gray
Not long ago I lost one of my best friends, a woman eighty-six years old, the most exciting lay teacher I’ve ever been exposed to.
The last time I saw her on planet earth was at one of those aseptic Christian parties. We were sitting there on eggshells, looking pious, when she walked in and said, “Well, Hendricks, I haven’t seen you for a long time. What are the five best books you’ve read in the past year?”
She had a way of changing a group’s dynamics. Her philosophy was, Let’s not bore each other with each other; let’s get into a discussion, and if we can’t find anything to discuss, let’s get into an argument.
She was eighty-three on her last trip to the Holy Land. She went there with a group of NFL football players. One of my most vivid memories of her is seeing her out front yelling back to them, “Come on men, get with it!”
She died in her sleep at her daughter’s home in Dallas. Her daughter told me that just before she died, she had written out her goals for the next ten years.
May her tribe increase!
11 Corinthians 13:17
Did I make a gain of you by any of them whom I sent unto you?
Jennifer Van Allen
www.theprodigalpig.com
www.faithincounseling.org
