Grandma Mary Beth

Grandma Mary Beth is eighty-eight years old and still drives her own car. She writes:

Dear Grand-daughter Mary Jane,

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 followed was truly a blessing and an uplifting experience.

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 to green.

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!'

Another shouted, '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.

Your sister, Mary Lou, was in the car with me so I asked her what that gesture meant. She 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.

Mary Lou burst out laughing.

Why even she 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 to green again.

So, grinning, I waved at all my brothers and sisters, and drove on through the intersection..

I noticed that I was the only car that got through the intersection before the light changed again to red and I 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 Mary Beth