City Afternoon

City Afternoon

Hope by Dick Eastman and Jack Hayford

"He will not live another day," a physician told an attending nurse. Concerned, the nurse befriended the dying woman and in a few hours had won her confidence. Motioning for the nurse to come over, the old woman said sorrowfully. "I have traveled all the way from California by myself, stopping at every city of importance between San Francisco and Boston. In each city I visit just two places, the police station, and the hospital. You see, my boy ran away from home and I have no idea where he is. I've got to find him.."

The mothers eyes seemed to flash a ray of hope as she added, "Someday he may even come into this very hospital, and if he does, please promise me you'll tell him his two best friends never gave up on him..."

Bending over the dying mother, the nurse whispered softly. "Tell me the names of those two friends so I can tell your son if I ever see him."

With trembling lips and eyes filled with tears she responded. "Tell him those two friends were God and his mother," and she closed her eyes and died.

There is more joy in heaven over one sinners rescued life than over ninety-nine good people in in no need of rescue. Luke 15:3-7