Sue was sitting at an airport terminal, waiting to board a plane. She was sitting there with several other people who were also waiting, whom she did not know.

As she waited, she pulled out her Bible and started to read. All of a sudden she felt as if all the people sitting around her, were looking at her. she looked up, she then realized they were looking just over her head, in the direction right behind her.

She turned to see what everyone was looking at, and when she did, she saw a stewardess pushing a wheelchair, with the ugliest man she had ever seen. She said he also had long white hair that was in the biggest mess she had ever seen, it was so tangled and messed up. His face was nothing but wrinkles, and he looked totally unfriendly.

She didn't know why, but she felt drawn to the man, and thought at first that God wanted her to witness to him. She was thinking in her mind, "Oh God, please not now, not here".

No matter what she did, she could not get the man off her mind, and suddenly she knew what God wanted her to do. She was to brush his hair, and help his appearance, for where ever he was going. However,she didn't even have a hairbrush with her.

She went over and knelt down in front of the old man, and asked, "Sir may I brush your hair for you.

 He said "WHAT?"

She thought, "Oh great, he's hard of hearing". Again, and a little louder she asked, "Sir, may I have the honor of brushing your hair for you".

He answered "IF YOU ARE GONNA TALK TO ME, YOU GOTTA SPEAK UP, I'M PRACTICALLY DEAF".

So again she spoke, almost yelling, "Sir may I please have the honor of brushing your hair for you?"

Everyone was watching to see what his response would be. By this time she didn't care what people thought, she felt as though she must brush his hair.

As everyone watched to see what his response would be, the old man just looked at her, very confused, and said "Well I guess, if you really want too".

She said, "I don't even have a brush, but maybe I can borrow one, so I thought I would ask".

The old man said "Look in the bag hanging on the back of my chair, there is a brush in there".

She took the brush from the bag, and started brushing his hair. (She has a little girl with long hair, so she has plenty of practice brushing out tangles, and knows how to be gentle with him.) She worked and worked a long time and until every tangle was out.

Just as she was finishing, she heard the old man crying, and she went to the front of his chair, put her hands on his knees, kneeling in front of him, looking directly into his eyes and said, "Sir, do you know Jesus?"

He answered, "Yes, I know Jesus. You see, my bride told me she wouldn't marry me unless I knew Jesus as my Lord and Master, so I learned all about him, and asked him to come into my heart many years ago, before I married my wife."

He continued, "You know, I am on my way home to go see my wife. I have been in the hospital for a long time, and had to have special surgery in this town, far away from my home. My wife couldn't come with me, because she is so frail herself".

Through his tears and sobs, he said "I was so worried about how terrible my hair looked, and I didn't want her to see me looking so awful, but I couldn't brush it all by myself .

Tears were rolling down his cheeks, as he thanked her over and over again.

She was also crying, and as she looked around, she could not see a dry eye in anyone standing around watching.

Everyone was crying, and as they started boarding the plane, she noticed the stewardess who had been watching, was also crying, and stopped her and asked her, "Why did you do that?"

Right there was the opportunity, the door had been opened, to share with someone else, the love of God.

"We don't always understand God's ways, but be ready, he may use us to meet the need of someone else, like he met the need of this precious old man, and the calling out to a lost soul who needed to know of his wonderful Love.

He also gives us these opportunities, so that we may plant a seed, in order to harvest a fulfillment of our own needs, so never miss an opportunity to assist someone in need. We always reap what we sow.