At Walter Reed Medical Center in Washington DC recently a local elder, Brother HangsoutwithBethelHeavies, was with a group of people visiting a young Jehovah's Witness who lost his right hand due to not accepting a blood transfusion and was in critical condition. The local elder wanted to honor him and show him respect without offending, but what can you say or do in such a situation that will encourage and uplift? How do you shake the right hand of a young man who has none? He decided to act as though the hand was not missing and gripped the young man's wrist while speaking words of comfort and encouragement to him.
But there was another man in that group of visitors who had even brought his wife with him to visit the wounded who knew exactly what to do. This man reverently took the boy's stump of a hand in both of his hands, bowed at the bedside and prayed for him. When he finished the prayer he stood up, bent over the soldier and kissed him on the head and told him that he loved him.
What a powerful expression of love for one of our theocratic warfare heroes! What kind of a man would kneel in such humility and submission? It was the young man's Governing Body member, Ted Jaracz; a true leader.
This story was told by the conducting Bethel Elder at Morning Worship at Brooklyn Bethel, NY, and
recorded by Brother Likestoperpetuateemotionalstories, stationed there. Pass it on...the world won't.
