Faith Shines At A Bus Stop Letter Of The Week: From Nov. 17

Where else but in Spokane would one come across someone reading the Bible in public?

While waiting for a bus the other day, I happened to sit next to a woman utterly engrossed in underlining passages in one of the Psalms. When I commended her for reading the good book, she emphatically stated that it contained many messages relevant to our times - one of them that the Lord had entered into a covenant with the people of Israel which assured them of His everlasting love.

“It’s important that people of today should still believe in this covenant of love,” the woman claimed, “which is a promise that God makes to all who believe in Him. His love is always there.” She added that the only thing we needed to do was to accept this love from the Lord, so each of us might then be enabled to turn around and love our neighbor as one’s self, just as the Bible has advised.

Later in mulling this over I wondered, perhaps rather whimsically, if the woman I’d met might have been one of those celestial messengers the Lord sends from time to time to let us know He is still abiding by His covenant of love everlasting. All we need to do is to believe and try to love others in return, in order to reflect that love. Florence Alexandrowski Spokane

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