Telbat's Tablet

Dear Friends, our thoughts and prayers are with the people of Florida right now because of Hurricane Irma. Thanks for joining us for “God’s Humbling Ways, a Short Story.” Sometimes, the hardest thing in our lives is allowing ourselves to be helped. Often in our own pride, we resist the help of others. It can be humbling to serve others, but it’s more humbling to submit to being served. This is often why many resist the cleansing power available from Jesus Christ alone. May we be swift to serve others, to tear down walls. But let us also be submissive to others who want to serve us—to tear down walls we’ve put up. Here’s a longer short story that may bring the point home. See you on the next page!—David Telbat

God’s Humbling Ways

A Short Story by D. I. Telbat

Linda Taylor had never felt worse pain. She knew her arm was broken. The ice hadn’t seemed that slick when leaving for church that morning. Now, upon returning home, the ice had a watery sheen on the surface. When climbing out of her four-wheel drive Jeep, she’d slipped and fallen.

As if falling wasn’t bad enough, she’d slid half-way under the vehicle. Paralyzed by pain for a few minutes, she blinked through the tears and imagined freezing to death right there. It really could happen. Living on a remote homestead in Northern Ohio, her closest neighbor, Hal Helms, was a mile away. And town was twenty miles away—a thirty-minute or longer drive on bad roads.
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