The wife of a Southern Baptist preacher talks to her Sunday
school class about a wonderful religious experience that
she had last week:
The other day I went up to the local Christian book store
where I saw a "Honk if you love Jesus" bumper sticker. I
was feeling particularly sassy that day because I had just
come from a thrilling choir performance at church, so I
bought that bumper sticker and put it on the back bumper of
my car.
I am really glad that I did. What an uplifting experience
followed! I was stopped at the light of a busy
intersection, just lost in thought about the Lord, and I
did not notice that the light had changed. It is a good
thing someone else loves Jesus or I may have never noticed
that the light had changed.
I found that lots of people love Jesus. Why, the guy behind
me started to honk like crazy and then he leaned out his
window and screamed, "For the love of GOD, Go!....Go! Jesus
Christ! Go!" Everyone was honking. I leaned out my window
and waved and smiled to all those loving people and I even
honked my horn a few times to share in the love.
There must have been a man from Florida back there because
I could hear him yelling something about a sunny beach. I
saw another guy waving in a funny way with only his middle
finger stuck up in the air. When I asked my teenage son in
the back seat what this meant, he said that it was nothing,
probably a Hawaiian good luck sign or something. Well, I
have never met a person from Hawaii, so I leaned out the
window and gave him the good luck sign back.
My son burst into laughter, why, even he was enjoying the
love of this religious experience. A couple of the people
were so caught up in the joy of the moment that they
got out of their cars and were walking towards me. I bet
they wanted to pray or ask what church I attended, but that
is when I noticed that the light had changed so I waved one
more time to my loving brothers and sisters and drove
through the intersection.
I was the only car that got across the intersection before
the light changed again and I felt kind of sad that I had
to leave them and all that love that we had shared so I
slowed the car down, leaned out the window and gave them
all the Hawaiian good luck sign one more time as I drove
away.
Praise the Lord for such wonderful folks!
