Wednesday, February 14, 2001
Wednesday, February 14, 2001
When I remember you in my prayers, I always thank my God.
"Yeah," his friend replied, "Aren't they beautiful?" They were beautiful. Dr. Craddock thought,
"This is a little church, how could they afford them?" Then he looked at the names on the
windows.
"I grew up here and I didn't recognize any of the names." Usually church windows are named for
families that have been in the church for years, but he did not know a single family.
His friend answered, "Well, there was a church up in St. Louis that ordered new windows from a
company in Italy. When they got there they were not the right size so instead of shipping them
back the company--they advertised them and we went up there and bought them."
Craddock then asked, "Are you going to put new nameplates on them?"
"We took that up at the board meeting," his friend informed him, "and decided to leave those
names there."
"Why?" asked Dr. Craddock. The friend replied, "It's good for our church to know that there are
a lot of Saints in God's kingdom that we don't even know."
No one may remember our names. But Christ will know. Just as Jesus knows the poor, the
hungry, and the grieving, Jesus will know our commitment and we will be call "blessed."
(Philemon 1:4
NRSV)
When Dr. Fred Craddock returned to his hometown in Tennessee to care for his terminally ill
sister, he had the occasion to visit a friend's church. When they arrived the evening sun was
shining through the stained glass windows. He asked his friend, "You have new windows?"
Dear God, I know I am blessed by those Christians I don't even know. Thank you for them!
Amen.
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