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It was a beautiful spring day, and a sense of peace stayed with me as I left the Cathedral on Easter Monday morning. I paused for a moment on top of the steps leading to the Avenue, now crowded with people rushing to their jobs. Sitting in her usual place inside a small archway was the older woman selling flowers. At her feet corsages and boutonnieres were parading on top of a spread-open newspaper.<\/p>\n

The flower lady was smiling, her wrinkled face alive with some inner joy. I started down the stairs-then, on an impulse, turned and picked out a flower.<\/p>\n

As I put it m my lapel, I said, “You look happy this morning.” “Why not? Everything is good.”<\/p>\n

She was dressed a bit shabbily and seemed so very old that her reply startled me, “You’ve been sitting here for many years now, haven’t you? And always smiling. You wear your troubles well.”<\/p>\n

“You can’t reach my age and not have troubles,” she replied. “Only it’s like Jesus and Good Friday<\/a>…” She paused for a moment.<\/p>\n

“Yes?” I prompted.<\/p>\n

“Well, when Jesus was crucified on Good Friday,<\/a> that was the worst day for the whole world. And when I get troubles I remember that, and then I think of what happened only three days later\u2013Easter and our Lord arising. So when I get troubles, I’ve learned to wait three days… somehow everything gets all right again.”<\/p>\n

And she smiled goodbye. Her words still follow me whenever I think I have troubles: “Give God a chance to help…wait three days.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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