© Patty Fitts. All Rights Reserved. A man fell into a deep hole from which he cannot escape. He hollers for help for hours. Finally, a banker walks by, hears his shouts, throws him down some money to purchase a ladder, and walks away. The man then goes back to hollering for help. Next, a priest walks by, hears his cries, throws down a note with a prayer written on it asking for help from above, and walks on. The man, still in the hole, hollers some more. All of a sudden, a man jumps down into the hole with the stranded man who then says, “What did you do that for? Now we're both down here. “Yes,” says the other man, “but I've been down here before and I know the way out.”
When I first read this I wasn’t sure it was worthy of a Grace Drop. I put it in my file and left it for quite a while. Then I began looking for more stories as the seventh year got underway. I read it again. For some reason it seemed to take on a whole new meaning. C. S. Lewis once wrote something like this: “You know you have made a friend when someone says, ‘Did you feel that way too?’” It is knowing that someone has been there, not just that they agree.
© 2009, John C. Fitts, III. All Rights Reserved. Reprinted from Grace Drops, Volume 7 (2009).
When I first read this I wasn’t sure it was worthy of a Grace Drop. I put it in my file and left it for quite a while. Then I began looking for more stories as the seventh year got underway. I read it again. For some reason it seemed to take on a whole new meaning. C. S. Lewis once wrote something like this: “You know you have made a friend when someone says, ‘Did you feel that way too?’” It is knowing that someone has been there, not just that they agree.
© 2009, John C. Fitts, III. All Rights Reserved. Reprinted from Grace Drops, Volume 7 (2009).
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