We did something different for Mother’s Day this year…
Since Cakes had to work at The Bonefish Grill, Bunch and I went with an elderly couple (70 years old) to their family farm in Warrensburg, MO.
The conversation was delightful. They recounted how they met and got married, how they became Christians, etc.
Once we go to the property, we met all of the relatives.
We met a young man with an incredible story. He was our friend’s grandson. Then they adopted him and he became their son…I hope that is right…
Shortly after they adopted him, two “friends” were with him in his car and started to demand that he give them his money. He didn’t have any so they shot him 7 times from point blank range!
His two “friends” were especially malicious. They used hollow point bullets. For those of you who aren’t active NRA members, hollow points are designed to dramatically expand upon penetration. The exit wound is typically 3-4 times the size of the entrance wound.
One bullet went through his right temple. One was right between the eyes. One was in the back of his neck toward his face. One went through the top of his skull. Two more went through the back of his head.
The amazing thing is that he has lived to talk about it! Our friends (his grandparents/parents) prayed and believed God to do a miracle and He did!!! He spent 58 days in the hospital. He couldn’t talk for 263 days! But here he was standing before me!
But the story doesn’t end there…
He was wearing a sweatshirt with the Greek letters for Alpha Phi Alpha when he walked up to us. Alpha Phi Alpha is a black college fraternity.
Nothing particularly noteworthy about that except that the young man we were talking to is white!
He is the first white to join that fraternity at his school and only the fifth in the whole country!
What makes that even more amazing is that the two “friends” who tried to kill him were black! How many people do you know that could experience an inhumane assault like that and not be scarred with racial bitterness? Absolutely amazing!
