barrykind
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Apples
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>A few years ago a group of salesmen went to a regional sales convention in
>Chicago. They had assured their wives that they would be home in plenty of
>time for Friday night's dinner.
>
>In their rush, with tickets and brief-cases, one of these salesmen
>inadvertently kicked over a table which held a display of baskets of apples.
>Apples flew everywhere. Without stopping or looking back, they all managed
>to reach the plane in time for their nearly missed boarding.
>
>All but one. He paused, took a deep breath, got in touch with his feelings,
>and experienced a twinge of compassion for the girl whose apple stand had
>been overturned.
>
>
>He told his buddies to go on without him, waved goodbye, told one of them to
>call his wife when they arrived at their home destination and explain his
>
>taking a later flight. Then he returned to the terminal where the apples
>were all over the terminal floor.
>
>He was glad he did.
>
>The 16 year old girl was totally blind! She was softly crying, tears running
>down her cheeks in frustration, and at the same time helplessly groping for
>her spilled produce as the crowd swirled about her, no one stopping, and no
>one to care for her plight.
>
>The salesman knelt on the floor with her, gathered up the apples, put them
>into the baskets, and helped set the display up once more. As he did this,
>he noticed that many of them had become battered and bruised; these he set
>aside in another basket.
>
>When he had finished, he pulled out his wallet and said to the girl,"Here,
>please take this $20 for the damage we did. Are you okay?"
>
>She nodded through her tears. He continued on with, "I hope we didn't spoil
>your day too badly."
>
>As the salesman started to walk away, the bewildered blind girl called out
>to him, "Mister...." He paused and turned to look back into those blind
>eyes.
>
>She continued, "Are you Jesus?"
>
>He stopped in mid-stride, and he wondered. Then slowly he made his way to
>catch the later flight with that question burning and bouncing about in his
>soul: "Are you Jesus?"
>
>Do people mistake you for Jesus?
>
>That's our destiny, is it not? To be so much like Jesus that people cannot
>tell the difference as we live and interact with a world that is blind to
>His love, life and grace.
>
>You are the apple of His eye even though we, too, have been bruised by a
>fall.
>
>He stopped what He was doing and picked you and me up on a hill called
>Calvary and paid in full for our damaged fruit.
>
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