A Touching Story that hope very much is true!
Most of you know John Wayne as an actor. You may not know what happened to
him before he died. This is that story!
Robert Schuller's teenage daughter, Cindy, was in a motorcycle accident
and had to have her leg amputated.
John Wayne is a big fan of Robert Schuller. He heard Dr. Schuller say on
one of his programs that his daughter had been in an accident and had to have
her leg amputated. John Wayne wrote a note to her saying:
Dear Cindy, sorry to hear about your accident. Hope you will be all
right. Signed, John Wayne.
The note was delivered to her and she decided she wanted to write John Wayne
a note in reply. She wrote:
Dear Mr. Wayne,
I got your note. Thanks for writing to me. I like you
very
much. I am going to be all right because Jesus is going to help me. Mr.
Wayne, do you know Jesus? I sure hope you know Jesus, Mr. Wayne, because I
cannot imagine heaven being complete without John Wayne being there. I hope
if you don't know Jesus that you will give your heart to Jesus right now.
See you in heaven.
And she signed her name.
She had just put that letter in an envelope, sealed it, and written across
the front of it "John Wayne" when a visitor came into her room to see her.
He said to her: "What are you doing?" She said: "I just wrote a letter to
John Wayne, but I don't know how to get it to him." He said: "That's funny,
I am going to have dinner with John Wayne tonight at the Newport Club down at
Newport Beach. Give it to me and I will give it to him." She gave him the
letter and he put it in his coat pocket.
There were twelve of them that night sitting around the table for dinner.
They were laughing and cutting up and the guy happened to reach in his
pocket and felt that letter and remembered. John Wayne was seated at the end
of the table and the guy took the letter out and said:
"Hey,Duke, I was in
Schuller's daughter's room today and she wrote you a letter and wanted me to
give it to you. Here it is." They passed it down to John Wayne and he opened
it.
They kept on laughing and cutting up and someone happened to look down at
John Wayne. He was crying. One of them said: "Hey, Duke, what is the
matter?" He said (and can't you hear him saying it?): "I want to read you
this letter." He read the letter. Then he began to weep. He folded it, put
it in his pocket, and he pointed to the man who delivered it to him and said:
"You go tell that little girl that right now, in this restaurant, right here,
John Wayne gives his heart to Jesus Christ and I will see her in heaven."
Three weeks later John Wayne died!
You never know how your witness to another will affect their eternity!