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Larry Lilly's Letter Wednesday March 9, 2011
Ever have lunch with God? Stephen "Fuzz" Brown of Lake Isabella, CA tells a long story which I have shortened of a little boy who left home to have a meeting with God. He packed a little suitcase with some potato chips and several cans of root beer. He traveled all of six blocks from home when he saw a old woman sitting on a park bench. He sat down alongside her. He offered her a chip, which she took and smiled. He then offered her a root beer, which she also took with a smile. They sat there all afternoon, occasionally looking at each other and smiling.
The boy got up from the park bench and started home, he suddenly wheeled around and ran back to the lady and hugged her. As he arrived home his Mother was near frantic with worry. She asked where he had been. He said, "I had lunch with God and she had the most beautiful smile I have ever seen."
Meanwhile the old woman wondered back to her home, where anxiety was ruling; her son asked, "Mom, where have you been? Why are you so happy?" She stated, "I had potato chips with God in the park. You know he is much younger than I expected."
You never know how a simple touch, a kind word, a small act of caring can make a difference in a person's life. "Fuzz" knows the truth of this from experience.
While Fuzz was serving time in a California prison, near the end of his rope, another prisoner lived so "above his world" that Fuzz took serious notice and a very important part of his ultimate surrender to Christ was accomplished via the Christ life of Inmate Charles D. Watson. Many of you recognize the name, it will dawn on others when Charlie's nick name is mentioned, "Tex", Tex Watson, one of the followers of Helter Skelter Charles Manson. While Manson has spent the last 40 some years living a little lower than a raving maniac in prison, Tex Watson was delivered by Christ and in a dark world shines as a bright light with the glory of Christ's redemption working in his life. Truly, where sin abounded, God’s grace abounded much more. He, as prisoners often say, "Talked the talk and walked the walk." Now Stephen "Fuzzy" Brown does the same through his ministry, So Blessed Ministries, P.O. Box B Lake Isabella, CA 93240.
Steve uses a saying that I have over used for years, it is true when Christ is in charge:
"I’m not what I was, and I'm not what I should be, I'm not what I want to be, but praise God I'm not what I used to be."
Paul said the same thing, with eloquence in 2Co 5:17:
Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
This is true for Tex, Fuzz, Larry and all who are in Christ. Care to join us?
Larry Lilly Copyright © 2011 Use with credit.
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