30 January 2009
Serendepity
Posted by hpshaiti under: Personal walk .
Yesterday morning I was trying to get home from Kentucky after being away for six weeks. So I wasn’t very excited when a helpful Lexington resident rolled down his window at a stop light and informed us our rear passenger tire was very low. That was an understatement. Time we got to a service station it was flat.
But it stayed up after being pumped just long enough to get us to an SS Tire store that was coincidentally only a block away. And while they were installing two new tires, we sat in the waiting room watching the Today show. Imagine my astonishment when I saw a picture of George Beverly Shea and heard that he will celebrate his 100th birthday Sunday, Feb. 1!
What a trip down memory lane! I grew up listening to Bev Shea on my Dad’s 33 1/3 rpm records. He had a beautiful voice, and the spirit to go with it. How do you live to be 100? By loving and serving God. Putting him first. Living humbly before Him. Billy Graham said about him, “Bev was the very first person I asked to join me in evangelism. He was well known in the Midwest, but at the same time he was humble… It was God who brought us together. (His) rich, bass baritone voice has touched the hearts of millions in our Crusades… I don’t believe I’ve ever heard him utter an unkind or critical word about anyone.” Dr Gordon Moyes
At home last evening I listened again to one of His CD’s. He sings “Precious Memories”. One of the formative memories in my life includes George Beverly Shea on that little battery operated record player in my bedroom/home school class room in Burundi, Africa as an MK singing \”The Wonder of it All\”.
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G. Blank Says:
2 February 2009 at 10:51 pm.
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