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azure
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empty chair
« on: Aug 11^th, 2003, 9:53am »

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I am not usually really into mushy emails, but I loved this one

DADDY'S EMPTY CHAIR

A man's daughter had asked the local minister to
come
and pray with her father. When the minister arrived,
he found the man lying in bed with his head propped
up
on two pillows. An empty chair sat beside his bed.

The minister assumed that the old fellow had been
informed of his visit. "I guess you were expecting
me," he said. "No, who are you?" said the father.

The minister told him his name and then remarked, "I
saw the empty chair and I figured you knew I was
going
to show up," " Oh yeah, the chair," said the
bedridden
man. "Would you mind closing the door?"

Puzzled, the minister shut the door. "I have never
told anyone this, not even my daughter," said the
man.
"But all of my life I have never known how to pray.
At church I used to hear the pastor talk about
prayer,
but it went right over my head." I abandoned any
attempt at prayer," the old man continued, "until
one
day four years ago my best friend said to me,
"Johnny,
prayer is just a simple matter of having a
conversation with Jesus. Here is what I suggest."

"Sit down in a chair; place an empty chair in front
of
you, and in faith see Jesus on the chair. It's not
spooky because he promised, 'I will be with you
always'. "Then just speak to him in the same way
you're doing with me right now."

"So, I tried it and I've liked it so much that I do
it
a couple of hours every day. I'm careful though. If
my daughter saw me talking to an empty chair, she'd
either have a nervous breakdown or send me off to
the
funny farm."

The minister was deeply moved by the story and
encouraged the old man to continue on the journey.
Then he prayed with him, anointed him with oil, and
returned to the church.

Two nights later the daughter called to tell the
minister that her daddy had died that afternoon.

"Did he die in peace?" he asked.
"Yes, when I left the house about two o'clock, he
called me over to his bedside told me he loved me
and kissed me on the

cheek. When I got back from the store an hour later,
I found him dead.
But there was something strange about his death.
Apparently, just
before Daddy died, he leaned over and rested his
head
on the chair beside the bed. What do you make of
that?"

The minister wiped a tear from his eye and said, "I
wish we could all go like that."

I asked God for water, He gave me an ocean.
I asked God for a flower, He gave me a garden.
I asked God for a friend, He gave me all of YOU...

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Re: empty chair
« Reply #1 on: Aug 11^th, 2003, 11:36am »

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Thanks azure - very lovely. It reminded me of my own father.....he was always "talking" to God.

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