you guys really need to read this, especially those of you who get that feeling that your at the end of your rope.
i am sorry for this being so long but believe me it is worth it.
love trish



The Pastor and his son

A good reminder of God's Love.

Every Sunday afternoon, after the morning service at the church, the Pastor
and his eleven year old son would go out into their town and hand out Gospel
Tracts.

This particular Sunday
afternoon, as it came time for the Pastor and his son to go to the streets
with their tracts, it was very cold outside, as well as pouring down rain.
The
boy bundled up in his warmest and driest clothes and said, "OK, dad, I'm
ready."

His Pastor dad asked, "Ready for what?"

"Dad, it's time we gather our tracts together and go out." Dad responds,
"Son, it's very cold outside and it's pouring down rain."

The boy gives his dad a surprised look, asking, "But Dad, aren't people
still going
to Hell, even though it's raining?"

Dad answers, "Son, I am not going out in this weather." Despondently, the
boy asks, "Dad, can I go? Please?"

His father hesitated for a moment then said, "Son, you can go. Here are the
tracts, be careful son."

"Thanks
Dad!"

And with that, he was off and out into the rain. his eleven year old boy
walked the streets of the town going door to door and handing everybody he
met in the street a Gospel Tract.

After two hours of walking in the rain, he was soaking, bone-chilled wet
and down to his VERY LAST TRACT. He stopped on a corner and looked for
someone to hand a tract to, but the streets were totally deserted.

Then he turned toward the first home he saw and started up the sidewalk to
the front door and rang the door bell. He rang the bell, but nobody
answered. He rang it again and again, but still no one answered. He waited
but still no answer.

Finally, this eleven year old trooper turned to leave, but something stopped
him. Again, he turned to the door and rang the bell and knocked loudly on
the door wi th his fist. He waited, something holding him there on the front
porch! He rang again and this time the door slowly opened. Standing in the
doorway was a very sad-looking elderly lady. She softly asked, "What can I
do for you, son?" With radiant eyes and a smile that lit up her world, this
little boy said, "Ma'am, I'm sorry if I disturbed you, but I just want to
tell you that *JESUS REALLY DOES LOVE YOU* and I came to give you my very
last Gospel Tract which will tell you all about JESUS and His great LOVE."

With that, he handed her his last tract and turned to leave. She called to
him as he departed. "Thank you, son! And God Bless You!"

Well, the following Sunday morning in church Pastor Dad was in the pulpit.
As the service began, he asked, "Does anybody have any testimony or want to
say anything?"

Slowly, in the back row of the church, an elderly la d y stood to her feet.
As she began to speak, a look of glorious radiance came from her face, "No
one in this church knows me. I've never been here before. You see, before
last Sunday I was not a Christian. My husband passed on some time ago,
leaving me totally alone in this world. Last Sunday, being a particularly
cold and rainy day, it was even more so in my heart that I came to the end
of the line where I no longer had any hope or will to live.

So I took a rope and a chair and ascended the stairway into the attic of my
home. I fastened the rope securely to a rafter in the roof, then stood on
the chair and fastened the other end of the rope around my neck. Standing on
that chair, so lonely and brokenhearted I was about to leap off, when
suddenly the loud ringing of my doorbell downstairs startled me. I thought,
"I'll wait a minute, and whoever it is will go away." I waited and waited,
but the ringing doorbell seemed to get louder and
more insistent, and then the perso n ringing also started knocking loudly. I
thought to myself again, "Who on earth could this be? Nobody ever rings my
bell or comes to see me." I loosened the rope from my neck and started for
the front door, all the while the bell rang louder and louder.

When I opened the door and looked I could hardly believe my eyes, for there
on my front porch was the most radiant and angelic little boy I had ever
seen in my life. His SMILE, oh, I could never describe it to you! The words
that came from his mouth caused my heart that had long been dead, TO LEAP TO
LIFE as he exclaimed with a cherub-like voice, "Ma'am, I just came to tell
you that JESUS REALLY DOES LOVE YOU." Then he gave me this Gospel Tract that
I now hold in my hand.

As the little angel disappeared back out into the cold and rain, I closed my
door and read slowly every word of this Gospel Tract. Then I went up to
my attic to get my rope and chair. I wouldn't be needing them any more.

You see---I am n ow a Happy Child of the KING. Since the address of your
church was on the back of this Gospel Tract, I have come here to personally
say THANK YOU to God's little angel who came just
in the nick of time and by so doing, spared my soul from an eternity in
hell."