THE POWER OF A LETTER

[Carol Anne Kincaid~Paradis]

THE POWER OF A LETTER:I don't know if it is true but here it is.

THE POWER OF A LETTER

Most of you know John Wayne as an actor. You may not

know what happened to him before he died. This is

that story! Robert Schuller's teenage daughter,

Cindy, was in a motorcycle accident and had to have

her leg amputated. John Wayne is a big fan of Robert

Schuller. He heard Dr. Schuller say on one of his

programs that his daughter had been in an accident and

had to have her leg amputated. John Wayne wrote a

note to her saying: Dear Cindy, Sorry to hear about

your accident. Hope you will be all right. Signed,

John Wayne The note was delivered to her and she

decided she wanted to write John Wayne a note in

reply. She wrote: Dear Mr. Wayne, I got your note.

Thanks for writing to me. I like you very much. I am

going to be all right because Jesus is going to help

me. Mr. Wayne, do you know Jesus? I sure hope you

know Jesus, Mr. Wayne, because I cannot imagine Heaven

being complete without John Wayne being there. I hope,

if you don't know Jesus, that you will give your heart

to Jesus right now. See you in Heaven. And she

signed her name. She had just put that letter in an

envelope, sealed it, and written across the front of

it "John Wayne" when a visitor came into her room to

see her. He said to her: What are you doing? She

said: I just wrote a letter to John Wayne, but I don't

know how to get it to him. He said: That's funny, I am

going to have dinner with John Wayne tonight at the

Newport Club down at Newport Beach. Give it to me and

I will give it to him. She gave him the letter and he

put it in his coat pocket. There were twelve of them

that night sitting around the table for dinner. They

were laughing and cutting up and the guy happened to

reach in his pocket and felt that letter and

remembered. John Wayne was seated at the end of the

table and the guy took the letter out and said: Hey,

Duke, I was in Schuller's daughter's room today and

she wrote you a letter and wanted me to give it to

you. Here it is. They passed it down to John Wayne

and he opened it. They kept on laughing and cutting

up and someone happened to look down at John Wayne.

He was crying. One of them said: Hey, Duke, what is

the matter? He said (and can't you hear him saying

it), " I want to read you this letter." He read the

letter. Then he began to weep. He folded it, put it

in his pocket, and he pointed to the man who delivered

it to him and said: "You go tell that little girl that

right now, in this restaurant, right here, John Wayne

gives his heart to Jesus Christ and I will see her in

heaven." Three weeks later John Wayne died. You never

know how your witness to another will effect their eternity!