Bigger Than Life
by an Old Disciple of Jesus Christ
My grandfather was 5’5” in height, and weighed around 115 pounds. He worked forty years as a night watchman at a paper mill. I remember, as a little boy, them giving him a gold pocket watch when he retired. It was a cherished possession till his death.
My mother told me she remembers him leaving their Kentucky home when she was a small child, and going to Ohio for work. He would send most of his pay check to my granny to save. He was only able to come home once a month. But after a year, he had saved enough to move his wife and seven children to their new home.
C.S. Lewis wrote, “A Stable once had something inside it that was bigger than the whole world.” Well, there are some folks whose souls are bigger than the body which houses them. That is, the inside is larger than the outside. There is many a man and woman who have giant characters hidden in small vessels. As James Stalker says of Jesus' mother, Mary, "She was high souled."You can always spot them, whenever you’re in their presence. It seems there is something inside them that wants to break out and hug the whole hurting world.
“The size of a man or woman’s soul is determined by how much of God possesses them”~ rds
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