May I Brush Your Hair?

[yara]

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TANGLED HAIR

Beth was sitting at an airport terminal, waiting to board a plane. She
was sitting there with several other people who were also waiting, whom
she did not know. As she waited, she pulled out her Bible and started
reading.

All of a sudden she felt as if the people sitting there around her were
looking at her. She looked up, but realized that they were looking just
over her head, in the direction right behind her. She turned around to
see what everyone was looking at, and when she did, she saw a stewardess
pushing a wheelchair, with the ugliest old man sitting in it, that she
had ever seen before. He had this long white hair that was all tangled
and such a mess. His face was really, really wrinkled and he didn't look
friendly at all.

She said she didn't know why, but she felt drawn to the man, and thought
at first that God wanted her to witness to him. In her mind she said she
was thinking, "Oh, God, please, not now, not here." No matter what she
did, she couldn't get the man off of her mind, and all of a sudden she
knew what God wanted her to do. She was supposed to brush this old man's
hair. She went and knelt down in front of the old man, and said "Sir may
I have the honor of brushing your hair for you?"

He said "What?"

She thought, "Oh great, he's hard of hearing." Again, a little louder,
she said, "Sir may I have the honor of brushing your hair for you?"

He answered "If you are talking to me, you are going to have to speak
up, I am practically deaf."

So this time, she was almost yelling, "Sir may I please have the honor
of brushing your hair for you?"

Everyone was watching to see what his response would be. The old man
just looked at her confused and said, "I guess if you really want to."
She thought, "I don't even have a brush, but I thought I would ask
anyway."

He said "Look in the bag hanging on the back of my chair, there is a
brush in there."

So she got the brush out and started brushing his hair. (She has a
little girl with long hair, so she has had lots of practice getting
tangles out, and knew how to be gentle with him.) She worked for a long
time, until every last tangle was out. Just as she was finishing up, she
heard the old man crying, and she went and put her hands on his knees,
kneeling in front of him again looking directly into his eyes, and said
"Sir, do you know Jesus?"

He answered, "Yes, of course I know Jesus. You see, my bride told me she
couldn't marry me unless I knew Jesus, so I learned all about Jesus and
asked Him to come into my heart many years ago, before I married my
bride." He continued, "You know, I am on my way home to go and see my
wife. I have been in the hospital for a long time and had to have a
special surgery in this town far from my home. My wife couldn't come
with me because she is so frail herself." He said, "I was so worried
about how terrible my hair looked and I didn't want her to see me
looking so awful, but I couldn't brush my hair, all by myself." Tears
were rolling down his cheeks, as he thanked Beth for brushing his hair.
He thanked her over and over again.

She was crying, people all around witnessing this were crying, and as
they were all boarding the plane, the stewardess, who was also crying
stopped her and asked, "Why did you do that?"

And right there was the opportunity, the door that had been opened to
share with someone else, the love of God. We don't always understand
God's ways, but be ready. He may use us to meet the need of someone
else, like He met the need of this old man, and in that moment, also
calling out to a lost soul who needed to know about His love.

-- Author Unknown

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