The Old Lady-- and the Television Interview

[Heavyduty053]

          There's a story told about an elderly lady in Arkansas who lived by meager means because that's all she had. The state of Arkansas voted to increase welfare payments to indigents, I guess at least ease their conscience to help people. A young and eager TV reporter thought he would take story and run with it to find a juicy story. He sit out grinning from ear to ear to find some old person barely getting by and do an interview. He drove way out in the country until he come across an old dirt road and decided he would follow it.

 

          Wasn't long before he stopped and there sit an old run down shack way up a beaten path and decided he would try his luck there. He drove as far as he could then he and his TV man walked the rest of the way to the house. The old shack had boards missing off the sides, porch falling in and the fold woman outside hanging her cloths on the cloths line to dry watched the two men as they approached. The young reporter ask her if he could interview her about a subject she would be interested in. As they went inside he could see the shack was just a one room, probably cold and wind coming through the walls during the winter months and hot during the summer.

 

          Her bed over in the corner was boards nailed together the best she could and her mattress looked like two sheets sown together  and stuffed with pine needles, a couple of thin blankets and a rocky old fireplace which probably did little to ward off the bitter cold. Her furniture, a table and two chairs were fashioned from the same boards she found somewhere. Old wood stove she cooked on and above it was several jars of preserves and cans of food on the only shelf she had from the store down the road about three miles.

 

          She had no fridge or freezer. No phone or television and this young man was overwhelmed and didn't understand. He thought every one in the world had good stuff like he did. Her only connection to the outside world was an old battery powered radio that she turned on in the evening some times.

 

          The old woman drew her water from and old well and it was ice cold, pure. She took baths in an old large sized tub she would fill with hot water from the stove or down at the crystal stream right by her house during the summer. She had a small garden right outside her back door and she protected herself with a shotgun standing over in the corner.

 

          After a few minutes of looking around and digesting what he had seen the reporter and his TV man started filming and asking her questions of her life and taking her pictures for later broadcast. Eventually the young reporter got around to asking her a question and said, "If the govt gave you $2oo.oo more dollars each month, what would you do with it".

 

          Without hesitation the old woman said, "God take care of me and I do not starve, nor do I want for anything, IF you talk to that govt man tell him to take it and give to someone poor.

 

 

If we place our faith in God to provide, he will never let us go without the things we need to survive. This Old woman lived a simple life  and yet a rich life by her standards and that is all she wanted. This world knows how much everything cost but has forgotten its value. There will be times when we all will wonder where the next dollar will come from but after a little talk with our lord something always comes in time. He is faithful for his faithful.

 

 

 

         

[SnowGlobe7]

ouch...good reminder

[freeroy]

God will bless all those who looks to him.

[genx4me]

Thanks Heavy. This is great!

[Heavyduty053]

It is my reminder also that simple things are all we need to survive.....and with God we are rich