I Have this book called Stories for a Kindred Heart, it's one
of those books when I pick it up and read a short story it
always touches my heart, I wanted to share this story with you today.
I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
This was the experience of an old man who lay dying.
When the priest came to anoint him, he noticed an empty
chair at the man's bedside and asked him who had just
been visiting. The sick man replied, "I place Jesus on that
chair and I talk to Him."
For years, he told the priest, he had found it extremely difficult
to pray until a friend explained that prayer was just a matter
of talking with Jesus. The friend suggested that he imagine Jesus
sitting in a chair where he could speak with Him and listen to what
He said in reply." I have had no trouble praying ever since."
Some days later, the daughter of this man came to the parish
house to inform the priest that her father had just died. She said,
"Because he seemed s0 content, I left him alone for a couple of hours.
When I got back t0 the room, I found him dead. I noticed a strange
thing,though: his head was resting not on the bed but on an empty
chair that was beside his bed."
By
Walter Burkhardt
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Ginger
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