Story Time

A number of years ago my husband and I went to Rochester, Minnesota to volunteer our services as house parents for a few 18-21 year old girls which volunteered at the two hospitals of the Mayo Clinic, The Gift of Life Lodge where those who had transplants stayed, and Hope Lodge where patients stayed to recuperate between cancer treatments.

After supper on Wednesday and Sundays we would go singing with the girls for different patients. Some of these were by request. 

One evening a very sick gentleman asked if we could sing, “Pass Me Not, O Gentle Saviour “. The whole time we were singing he was crying.

Later he improved and spent a few days in a motel near the hospital. We went to visit him and his wife and we asked him, “What did that song mean to you that we sang to you at the hospital?”

He said He felt he could grasp it in faith that Jesus would not pass him by, and his tears were the tears of joy, faith, and hope.