by Alvirda Pah'or Choose Life
The wind was tossing the waves softly upon the shore as I made my way down to the beach. I had just finished a long day in the kitchen cooking for the staff and students at the Bible School at Thetis Island, British Columbia, and I wanted to take my lunch break down by the ocean.
Thetis Island is a small Island located in the Strait of Georgia between British Columbia and Vancouver Island, in Canada. There are eighteen cabins, four homes, a main hall, dining area, kitchen, office, barn, livestock area, swimming area, canoes and more.
I settled myself on a beached log, took off my shoes and dug my toes in the warm sand. I was lonesome for my grand daughter Sara. She had spent half of the summer with me and it had been a time of fun and laughter! She was a delight to have with me. A twelve-year-old girl has a lot of energy and she had covered a lot of ground while she was on the Island.
Because there was so much to do and to go on this place, I had told Sara she had to report to me when she left one place to go to another so I would know where she was at all times; so, breathlessly she would come into the kitchen to tell me of her comings and goings!
On work day I would see her and the five other children on the tailgate of the truck with their feet swinging off the back, dog barking at nothing, as they would go and pick up the paper trash to be burned in the pit, laughing and giggling all the way.
As I sat there on the log, I prayed, “O Lord, You promised me that You would meet all my needs. I miss Sara today and I am lonesome for her today. “
Suddenly I heard a small voice behind me say, “Do you want to see me dive?” I turned around, and there was a little girl with long brown hair and green eyes. I said, “Yes, I do.” She went to the end of the dock and she dove, and she dove, and she dove. Then she came and sat beside me on the log. I asked her, “Where do you live? She said, “I live in Chemanis.” It was a thirty minute Ferry ride to the big Island.
I asked, “Have you been to the children’s classes?” She said, “Yes.” I asked, “Did they tell you about Jesus today?” She said, “Yes they did.” I said, “Did they tell you that our Father God loves you and wants you to ask Jesus into your life?” . She said a very soft, “Yes.” I said, “Did you ask Him into your life?” She said, “No.” Then she said, “ My father divorced my mother and went far, far away.” I said, “Father God would never leave you or forsake you.”
She said, “Do you want to see me dive again?” I said, “Yes, I do!” Off she went to the end of the dock and dove again. When she came back, she sat down and pressed her little wet body close to me and said,” I would like to do that.” I asked her, “ What would you like to do?” “I would like to ask Jesus to come into my heart,” she said in a small voice.
So there in the warm sunshine we bowed our heads and she asked Jesus to come into her heart. All of a sudden the Ferry whistle blew, and she jumped up and said, “Oh, I have to go home now!” She picked up her wet towel and her small bag and began to run down the trail to the Ferry dock. At the rise of the hill she stopped and turned, and said, "I love you!”
That lonely place in my heart was filled to the brim with the sight of the little girl with the long brown hair and the soft green eyes.
Alvirda Pah'or is a traveling Christian evangelist, bible teacher, and founder of Choose Life Ministries (1980). [Deuteronomy 30:19,20A]. Her work frequently takes her on extended travels to India, England, Ireland, Scotland, and many parts of the U.S.
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