成人快手

I have just been severely humbled and brought back down to earth.

I was moaning to myself about how hard it was to find a "good pair" of shoes. Me, who owns about ten pairs of shoes. "Oh poor me! I can't find a good pair of shoes for church!" At least I have shoes. I need to get over myself.

I just received a letter from Mr. Stephen Meh of Liberia. He can't read so his grandson writes his letters. He is 80 years old and lives in a shack that we wouldn't use to house cattle - never mind human beings. He was doing very poorly in health because he couldn't get medical care. I thought his wife, Mrs. Agnes Meh, was dead but it turns out that she is alive and well! (Thank God!)

As Mr. Meh spoke his grandson wrote down his word. Here is this man living in dire poverty and all he can do is send his prayers and blessings that me and Erlend are doing well! "I pray that you will be blessed with many lambs and calves" he writes in reply to my letter telling him about living on a farm. Then he inquires joyfully, "Now that you are married do you have any children? It is so wonderful that you are married!"

Then the grandson writes that Mr. Meh's health has improved since now he has access to health care! The next time I feel like grumbling about the health care services at my beck and call I'll remember this elder living in his shack and previously wheelchair-bound from lack of ANY health care!!

Not an ounce of self-pity comes through this letter. Instead this letter radiates joy and sends prayers for my (and Erlend's) well-being and a bountiful harvest of crops, calves and lambs.

What was that about shoes? Huh! Never mind!!

It's so good to have Mr. and Mrs. Meh's prayers!