"My case history is positive"

The Belgium journalist Annemie Struyf departed to Kenia at the continent "Africa" to write a book about the aidsproblems . She came back deep inpressed by the culture in the tribes, which maintains the aidsproblem. Her book was during a whole year the first one of the top ten books sold: "Mijn status is positief".
I heard the radio-intervieuw about how deep and intens and different the male and the female culture is in tribes!! There might be no other place on earth where the widows, as well as the orphans are so vulnerable as in the continent Africa.

Hardly to believe

Before he started to preach, the pastor introduced a visitor to the community. He said that the visitor was a very beloved friend from his youth and asked if he could say some words.
The senior man walked towards the pulpit ad told the next story:
A father, his son and a friend of his son were sailing along the coast of the Ocean, when suddenly rose a heavy storm , the boat canceled and the 3 men fell abroad. While the father grasped the leash of rescue, he had to make the hardest decision of his life: to whom did he have to throw the line? The father knew his son was a Christian and the sons friend wasn’t.
The father called ”I love you” to his son and threw the line to the boys friend. Pulling the friend aboard, he saw disappearing his son by the waves for ever.
The father knew his son would enter the eternity with Jesus , but the idea that his friend would enter eternity without Jesus, was unbearable for him. Therefore to safe his sons friend he gave his son as a sacrifice. At the end the visitor said: ’How great is God’s love to us, that he gave His only begotten Son, that we might be saved. So grasp the savings-line, which is thrown by God this evening!’
After those words the pastor took his place at the pulpit and started to preach.

At the end of the service some teenagers went to the senior. They had listened with their hearts full of doubt and hadn’t responded to the invitation. ‘That story doesn’t sound so realistic’ they scornfully said. ‘Not any father would do a thing like that.’
The senior said; ‘That might be . But I was here tonight to tell you that I personally like this story as a very nice picture of God, the Father, to us.
I was that father and your preacher is the friend of my son’.