Vera is one of the...
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Object:
Vera is one of the most hope-filled people one will ever meet. Daily she comes to the street mission and offers to help in any way she can. Most often she is given the chore of sweeping up after the noon meal, putting the chairs back under the tables, and helping set up for the evening meal.
Vera never discloses her age; she may not even know it. She appears to be at least sixty or older and lives in a one-room apartment over a rundown diner. She has no family that she has ever talked about, lives week-to-week on a small disability payment and handouts, and walks with a decided limp due to a work-related accident many years ago.
Yet one never sees Vera without an ear-to-ear grin. She never complains, always seeing the good in every person and situation. Asked by a local pastor one day why she is always so upbeat, Vera simply said, "How can I not be? My hope is in Jesus."
Vera obviously knows the hope that Paul prayed the Ephesians would experience.
Vera never discloses her age; she may not even know it. She appears to be at least sixty or older and lives in a one-room apartment over a rundown diner. She has no family that she has ever talked about, lives week-to-week on a small disability payment and handouts, and walks with a decided limp due to a work-related accident many years ago.
Yet one never sees Vera without an ear-to-ear grin. She never complains, always seeing the good in every person and situation. Asked by a local pastor one day why she is always so upbeat, Vera simply said, "How can I not be? My hope is in Jesus."
Vera obviously knows the hope that Paul prayed the Ephesians would experience.
