It's never to late

[paulnoel]

It happened at two o'clock in the morning. The crowed ward was quite and still. In one bed lay an old man who was dying. Whatever family and friends he had once, had forgotten him. He had a long prison record. His life had been a failure. Now he'd come to the end of his life. Then a tall figure enterd the ward, smiled at the nurse, and went over to the old man's bed. The visitor was the hospital chaplin, who had heard about the lonely old man.
The old man took the chaplin's hand and in little more than a whisper, spoke the words of a familiar children's prayer:

Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep.
If I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take.​

As the nurse listened, she had tears in her eyes, for she realised it must have been the first prayer the old man's mother had taught him, and perhaps the only one he ever knew. It seemed his way of asking forgiveness for a wasted life. They were the last words he ever spoke. A few moments later he died.

 

[angelwind]

It IS never too late. My father and my husband's father received the Lord just days before they died.

 

[JPPT1974]

It IS never too late. My father and my husband's father received the Lord just days before they died.

That is indeed awesome! God bless!!

 

[angelwind]

That is indeed awesome! God bless!!

It is awesome...God is Mighty to save!