A priest passed the church one day in the afternoon, decided to stop by for a while to see who came to pray. At the moment, the back door were opened, a guy walked among the benches. The priest frowned when he noticed that the guy must hadn't been shaving for long time.
His shirt looked shabby and his old jacked were torn. That old guy got on his knees, bow his head, and got up again and walked away. The next days, in every mid-day this guy come. Every time, he knelt for a while, with the lunch-box in his lap. The priest began to be suspicious if this old guy had stolen something. So he asked him, "what are you doing here?"
The old guy said that he worked at the end of this street. His lunch break was only half an hour. Lunch time is the time for him to pray, to get strength and relief. "I can come only for a while, because the factory where I work is so far from here. When i get on my knees here, i talked to God:
"I come again to tell You, Lord, how happy i am. Since we become best friends and You forgive me and take away my sin. I don't know how to pray but i think of you everyday. So, Jesus, it's me, Jim. Just stop by, today."
The priest suddenly felt so stupid. He told Jim that it's good, and he said that Jim were free to come and pray whenever he liked. It's time to go. Jim smiled and said "thank you" and left the church. The priest knelt down that afternoon, like he never did before. His suspicious heart had melted, warmed by love, and he met Jesus there.
While tears flown over his cheek, inside his heart he prayed, repeating the prayer of the old Jim:
"I come again to tell You, Lord, how happy i am. Since we become best friends and You forgive me and take away my sin. I don't know how to pray but i think of you everyday. So, Jesus, it's me. Just stop by, today."
One day, the priest noticed that Jim hadn't come for several days and he started to worry. He went to the factory at the end of the street and asked about Jim. He got news that Jim was sick, and He's in the hospital now.
There, Jim gladden the nurse. He cheered up the people in the hospital. A week Jim had been there. There's big transformation in the hospital's ward. His bright smile had spread happiness and joy. The head nurse couldn't understand why Jim is so joyful, where as there's no flowers, calls, or cards for him. Even there's nobody visited him.
The priest sat beside Jim's bed and asked him the head nurse's confusion about nobody visited him. Surprised, the old Jim said with his bright smile upon his face, "The nurse is wrong. She didn't know that here, everyday, in the mid-day, He is here, my dear beloved best fiend. He sits, holds my hand, and said:
""I come again to tell you, Jim, how happy i am. Since we become best friends and I take away your sin. How happy I am to hear your prayers everyday and I think about you everyday. So, Jim, it's me, Jesus. Just stop by, today."
-Sumber tdk diketahui
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