Sunday, September 26, 1999
Sunday, September 26, 1999
For he is our God, and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand.
O that today you would listen to his voice!
Sensing death closing in on him, William's grandfather began praying more intensely for the
Lord to give him sight, just long enough to see his grandson before he died. The doctors had told
him that it was an impossibility because his eyes had long since turned a milky blue from a disease.
One day Grandpa was playing with his grandson when suddenly he could see. The whole
family ran out into the yard to see what all the fuss was and quickly grew quiet as it become
apparent that his vision had returned. Grandpa picked up his grandson, whom he had never seen,
and stared at him with an intensity that frightened the child. William remembers holding his face
between his small hands while both of them cried. Then in the most frightening moment of all,
Grandpa saw something in William. It was an unbelievable, once in a lifetime experience.
Grandpa looked his grandson in the eyes and softly said, "a preacher." That was all he said. Just
those two words so quietly uttered with a tone of surprise. Thirty years later William wonders
which was the greater miracle--that he could see or that he could see something so deeply hidden
in William's distant future.
William believes that his grandfather's voice that day was the voice of God. God breaks into our
lives, at times, suddenly and distinctly.
Ron Newhouse
(Psalms 95:7
NRSV)
William Boggs' grandfather played a very important role in his life. Grandpa Boggs had been
blind for nearly twenty years. He had only one regret. He had never seen his
grandson.
Loving God, may I hear what you have to say to me today. Amen.
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