On One Occasion I went to the airport by arrangement to meet a friend. The flight arrived, but there was no sign of my passenger. After what I thought was a long wait, I returned home, puzzled and a bit annoyed. Then, to my astonishment, my friend arrived. He had been delayed because he had been helping another passenger with a luggage problem. He had simply been a Good Samaritan responding to a need.
Our Late Bro. Bob Young once told me about one meaningful moment when he realised how very near God can be to any one of us. One dark night he was driving his bakery van, taking home some of his workers into a violent area of the city. He always checked with a sentry before entering, but on this occasion there was no one to be seen on the unlit street. It was very late, and his workers were hungry and tired. So he advanced cautiously, but then had second thoughts. He got out of the van with his flashlight to look around. A mere three feet in front, and level with the windshield was a wire strung right across the road, highly electrified. They all decided to spend the night at the bakery.
As A Nurse I helped with the baptism of a Sis. Veronica Vickers. She was gravely ill in hospital. Doctors and matron tried to dissuade her, but she swept all caution aside. We filled a bath to the brim with warm water and four brethren gently lowered her tiny shrunken body in a blanket until just her face was above the water. She could not hold her breath, because she had no breath to hold. It took us forty minutes and many abortive attempts before her longing to be immersed into Christ was fulfilled. But the joy on her beautiful countenance as she was lifted out lives with me still after nearly fifty years.
The Origin of the Organic World – Part One