[Ohio-Communities-of-Faith] FW: MacDonald's Lunch

Wed Jun 23 13:11:14 UTC 2021

From: Larry Perry [mailto:larryperry at performancepress.ccsend.com] On Behalf Of Larry Perry
Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2021 8:10 AM
To: mmoore11 at kent.edu
Subject: EXT: MacDonald's Lunch

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Letter from Larry

Wednesday

June 23, 2021

Good Wednesday Morning Everyone:

Today's story is about a young mother who had an interesting thing

happen when she, her husband, and her son had a:

MacDonald's Breakfast

I am a mother of three (ages 14, 12, 3) and have recently completed my

college degree. The last class I had to take was Sociology. The teacher

was absolutely inspiring with the qualities that I wish every human being

had been graced with.

Her last project of the term was called "Smile." The class was asked to 

go out and smile at three people and document their reactions. I am a 

very friendly person and always smile at everyone and say hello anyway,

so, I thought this would be a piece of cake.

Soon after we were assigned the project, my husband, youngest son, 

and I went out to MacDonald's one crisp March morning. It was just our

way of sharing special playtime with our son. We were standing in

line, waiting to be served, when all of a sudden everyone around us

began to back away, and then even my husband did.

I did not move an inch. An overwhelming feeling of panic welled up 

inside of me as I turned to see why they had moved. As I turned 

around, I smelled a horrible "dirty body" smell, and there standing 

behind me were two poor homeless men. As I looked down at the 

short gentleman close to me, he was "smiling". His beautiful sky 

blue eyes were full of God's Light as he searched for acceptance.

He said, "Good day" as he counted the few coins he had been clutching. 

The second man fumbled with his hands as he stood behind his friend.

I realized the second man was mentally challenged and the blue-eyed

gentleman was his salvation. I held my tears as I stood there with

them. The young lady at the counter asked him what they wanted.

He said, "Coffee is all Miss" because that was all they could afford. 

If they wanted to sit in the restaurant and warm up, they had to buy

something. He just wanted to be warm.

Then I really felt it - the compulsion was so great I almost reached 

out and embraced the little man with the blue eyes. That is when I

noticed all eyes in the restaurant were set on me, judging my every 

action. I smiled and asked the young lady behind the counter to give 

me two more breakfast meals on a separate tray.

I then walked around the corner to the table that the men had chosen 

as a resting spot. I put the tray on the table and laid my hand on the

blue-eyed gentleman's cold hand. He looked up at me, with tears in 

his eyes, and said, "Thank you." I leaned over, began to pat his hand 

and said, "I did not do this for you. God is here working through me 

to give you hope."

I started to cry as I walked away to join my husband and son. When

I sat down my husband smiled at me and said, "That is why God gave 

you to me, Honey, to give me hope." We held hands for a moment and 

at that time, we knew that only because of the Grace that we had been

given were we able to give. That day showed me the pure Light of God's

sweet love.

I returned to college, on the last evening of class, with this story in 

hand. I turned in "my project" and the instructor read it. Then she

looked up at me and said, "Can I share this?" I slowly nodded as she 

got the attention of the class. She began to read and that is when I

knew that we as human beings and being part of God share this 

need to heal people and to be healed. In my own way, I had touched

the people at MacDonald's, my husband, son, instructor, and every 

soul that shared the classroom on the last night I spent as a college 

student. I graduated with one of the biggest lessons I would ever learn: UNCONDITIONAL ACCEPTANCE! 

Much love and compassion is sent to each and every person who

may read this and learn how to LOVE PEOPLE AND USE THINGS -

NOT LOVE THINGS AND USE PEOPLE.

To handle yourself, use your head.

To handle others, use your heart.

God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.

*****

May God Bless and keep you and yours!!

Larry

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