An Incredible Lunch

Had lunch today with Miss Marjerie Fox. It was like spending the afternoon with Angela Lansbury. She told me that her husband led her to the Lord after he was led to the Lord by a bar owner who was a customer of her husband’s beer distribution company.

But that wasn’t the most incredible thing about lunch.

She told me about the Bible study she leads on Thursday afternoons at a local nursing home. As well as the one at our church. As well as another one on one study she has.

But that wasn’t the most incredible thing either.

At the beginning of lunch, I asked our server if there was anything we could pray for him about. I do this whenever I eat out. Our guy’s name was Jeff and his dad is being deployed. He looked shocked I asked but thankful.

Marjerie asked me if I’ve ever had anyone tell me no. I haven’t but it’s led to some pretty interesting conversations.

But that wasn’t the incredible thing about lunch either.

Jeff leaves the check with us and he’s written a note on the receipt. It said thank you, made my day.

He comes back for the card and says obviously you haven’t looked at the receipt. We tell him we had and that it was a nice note.

It hits me that I never looked at the bill. He had comped our entire meal. Paid for it all.

He said it was one of the nicest things that had ever been done for him – that someone would pause to pray for him. He also said to be sure to sit in his section the next time we were in. Then he gave us a free dessert to take home.

We wanted to pray for our server just to be a blessing to him and he ended up being a bigger one for us.

And all of that made it an incredible lunch.