The story starts out where she,
Beth, is 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 reading. All of a sudden she felt as if the
people sitting there around her, were looking at her. She looked up, but
realized that they were looking just over her head, in the direction right
behind her. She turned around to see what everyone was looking at, and when
she did, she saw a stewardess pushing a wheelchair, with the
ugliest old man sitting in it, that she had ever seen before. She said he had
this long white hair that was all tangled and such a mess. His face was
really, really wrinkled, and he didn't look friendly at all.
She said she didn't know why, but she felt drawn to the man, and thought at
first that God wanted her to witness to him. In her mind she said she was
thinking, "Oh, God, please, not now, not here." No matter what she
did, she
couldn't get the man off of her mind, and all of a sudden she knew what God
wanted her to do. She was supposed to brush this old man's hair. She went and
knelt down in front of the old man, and said "Sir may I have the honor of
brushing your hair for you?" He said "What?" She thought,
"Oh great, he's
hard of hearing." Again, a little louder, she said, "Sir, may I have
the