He had driven the same route for nineteen years and was really glad to have work - there were so many of his friends without employment. He also liked the solitude.
Connor had always been a deep thinker, according to his friends, and Carolyn, his lovely wife of twenty years, was always there for him. He felt really blessed.
He knew he had to get the bus back to the depot, and his shift was coming to an end when suddenly he saw something on the road - he swerved, braked, and spun to the right- so fortunate no other vehicles were coming the other way - WOW, what was that?
Connor pulled the bus over to the side. How fortunate he was. But what was that? Connor walked around the back of the bus. Something was lying in the middle of the road. There was a person all bundled up and lying there.
Connor bent down to see the person - she was an elderly lady, all doubled over, lying there - she was crying, and blood was coming from her head. What could he do? Should he move her? Should he make sure no one else would almost hit her? What was happening?
Connor phoned the ambulance station - he put stanchions around the lady and lots of lights, which fortunately he had in the bus. He stood in the road and made sure all traffic avoided the area way beyond, where she was lying. The police were soon on the scene, and the ambulance arrived not long after.
The ambulance attendants were very pleased that Connor hadn't moved the lady. It was so important not to move if she had broken anything. Moving may have jeopardized her life, and fortunately, Connor knew this from his extensive training years before.
The police took over the traffic control, and the ambulance crew was soon able to move the lady.
A few weeks later, the police called in to Connor's home and explained that the lady had come from the nursing home, around about three kilometres from where Connor had found her. She was suffering from a form of dementia and had wandered off from the home, and a search party had only just started when Connor had found her.
She had fallen when trying to cross the road. She really had no idea where she was, and she was really quite unconscious when Connor found her lying in the middle of the roadway. How fortunate that she was not hit. The police praised Connor for his quick thinking, considering he was driving a bus and not a car.
Connor and Carolyn made their way to the nursing home and visited the lady. She had really no recollection of what had happened, but the nursing staff put on a huge afternoon tea for them both. They were all so delighted that Connor had actually saved her life.
Life is different, isn't it! We are all so different in so many ways. The difference is astounding.
Just recently, while the Jewish community here in Australia was celebrating Hanukkah, a gunman started shooting and killed many people, and many others were hospitalised, never to be the same again.
We are all unique, and many of us hold diverse beliefs. What is so sad is that many believe in the killing of others, which never ceases to amaze me. Connor found this lady and tried so hard to save her life while the gunmen at the Hanukkah celebration killed as many people, including one child, as they could - it just astounds me.
Jesus died for you and me, and you may ask why He did that.
Way back in the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve decided that God was pretty irrelevant. They had their own lives to lead, and so sin entered the world, and God punished them for it by only letting them live a short while on earth, and having to work hard with lots of problems thrown in.
And so, we all have to cope with that - sin entered God's ideal world, and unfortunately, sin entered in just like today, and we all have partaken in all sorts of sin.
God will give us the victory and the triumph over our sin if we choose to believe that he can. But if we choose to believe that we can rely on our own strength, then we will keep on falling into ditches or all sorts of horrible things.
John 15: 5 says, "I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing." NKJV
God is pretty adamant that ONLY if we give Him our total lives and live for Him, can we expect Him to take us and live eternally in Heaven when we forsake this crazy world of ours.
Asking Him into our lives while we are still here on earth is really the ONLY way we can be sure that God, in His love and mercy, will secure us a place in heaven for eternity.
God's richest blessings to you this week - hope to see you next time.
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