The Letter Man's Abundance

Once, he'd been a pilot, traveled a lot of the world, and now he still loved what he remembered.  Breathing problems confined him to his house, so he began to connect with people around the world through letters.  


Mr. Wolf bought a magazine one day, and through a letter to the editor, began correspondence with two people from Europe.  Then, five.  Realizing he would actually get a response, he expanded his writing to world leaders.  It was exciting when the first response came.  Chiang Kai-Shek, nationalist leader in China and opponent of the Communists, picked up the correspondence.


Regular mail meant a slow pace, and even air-mail was hardly what we experience today, but the correspondence continued.  Madam Chiang Kai-Shek joined in the letter writing.  When Mr. Wolf included in a letter that the church in his small town wanted to build a new fellowship hall, Madam Chiang Kai-Shek volunteered a gift to help.  


A large package arrived one day, carrying a multi-panel silk screen, with a message of good will in large Chinese characters, beautifully scripted and decorated.  Madam Chiang Kai-Shek was an artist, and had painted this for her letter-writing friend in a tiny Texas town, advising that he could sell it to help pay for the new building.


People are sometimes wise, you know.  They decided that the better way would be to frame her fine work, and display it in the new building.  Much better than selling it.  


And so, in a tiny town that would raise no expectations if you drove through, a disabled man who wrote letters brought beauty from a well-known and beautifully artistic lady, to decorate a church fellowship hall.


Sometimes life "fulfills".  Like the abundance of life that Jesus taught.  Isn't it a wonder when it happens?