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Jay Horne’s Be The Gift
At first glance, this may look like an advocate for organ donation. It is not.
You need your organs and it is totally up to you what happens to them after you go.
But, there is another organ.
It plays Silent Night every Sunday at the Greenville Baptist Church in Iowa. Luretta Valentine made that magic happen for forty-two years. Now, the thing plays on its own, via a copper pianola roll, recorded by her a decade earlier.
A mosaic of Families gather here once a week to do something that is becoming ever more rare these days. They behave.
Luretta use to teach Sunday school at Greenville Baptist before she went to the place she use to call her waiting room. Heaven was her waiting room. She was known to have a top-ten list. Ten things that were waiting on her when she’d arrive.
It was all of the best things. Some were things she had known on Earth, but had lost, like her Father. Others were things she really wanted but just never could quite grab, like her fame. And some, well, she kept some secret, and that was because she believed that everyone deserved a little privacy, especially if they behaved themselves once a week!