UPFRONT February 12, 2007 Issue

'Blessed by the Best'

DANIS COLLETT MUTCHLER, SENIOR DESIGNER

Faith. How can it become inspired, or maybe reactivated, except one heart at a time? So that's what we're going to do this week. And I get to start it off with this little story.

My husband and I, dyed-in-the-wool New Englanders, were on a bus from Atlanta to Savannah, Georgia—a five-hour trip. Not only was it a ride through fields of bursting-white cotton, but deep into the Bible Belt, a wide swath of America where there's "a church on every corner," and heartily thanking Jesus is common expression of praise.

Our driver was aptly named Ernest, a radiantly confident man who declared himself "blessed by the Best!" Driving a bus was Ernie's day job. But his real work was preaching the gospel. When one passenger asked to watch something on the bus TV, Ernie put on a rousing evangelistic video. Obviously it had been played many times, and when it broke, Ernie picked up where it lift off. He began to expound on God's goodness, loudly and clearly, to the seven or eight passengers. (This would never happen in reserved New England, and we loved it!)

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