By
Cheryle M. Touchton
The Pocket
Full of Quarters Lady
But because of his great love for us, God, who is
rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in
transgressions — it is by grace you have been saved. Eph 2:4-5
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| They All Met Jesus |
You couldn’t
miss her lying on the ground wearing coconuts connected by a string and little
boy shirts. I liked her immediately. She had no idea where she was going in the
next life but was pretty sure it was no where good.
“Why?” I
asked.
“I’m told I’m
trouble.”
“Are you?”
“Probably,”
she grinned and answered dryly.
She was
Catholic but not going to church. While she believed in the birth, death, and resurrection
of Jesus, and had confessed sin, she had never met Him personally. She believed
100% that all had sinned and fallen short of the glory of God and that it
applied to her. When she heard about grace, her eyes lit up with hope. I didn’t
have to ask her twice about accepting that grace and praying to receive Jesus.
As she
finished praying, her entire face lit up with the Holy Spirit Glow. After taking
a minute to enjoy it, she looked down at her outfit self-consciously.
“I didn’t
really mean to come out like this. It is possible I was inebriated.”
I enjoyed her
humor and honesty. “Now that you’ve met Jesus, you are going to move from being
described as trouble to being described as interesting. I suspect you are never
boring and that will only get better with Jesus.”
She liked
that. She had many questions so we talked for about an hour. One issue was boyfriend. He
had wanted to discuss marriage but her parent’s divorce made her hesitant. She had told
him that she would be “with” him but not marry him. I gave her my 5-question
relationship test and he passed. He sounded like a great guy. In an effort to
teach her about the hope of Christian marriage, I told her my parent’s love
story and how they had recently died just 29 days apart.
“Awe,” she
said. “That is so sweet.”
I surprised
myself by agreeing. Somewhere in the time since my parent’s death, I had moved past
the surprise and grief. I now saw their deaths being so close together as a
sweet ending to an amazing Christian love story that would become a part of
helping people follow Jesus.
I’m blessed
to be a small of God’s amazing plans for this interesting young woman who is
loved by God, made whole by grace, and will one day be meeting my parents in
heaven.
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Cheryle M. Touchton,
the Pocket Full of Quarters Lady, is the Director of Pocket Full of Change
Ministries. She and the Missionary Dog Shiloh
travel the country as evangelists. For more information or to schedule a
speaker for an event, go Pocket Full of Change
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