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Enjoy this touching true story excerpted from <\/em>Love Mercy and Grace: True Stories of God’s Amazing Care<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

After 20 years as a full-time wife and mother, I decided now that my kids were grown, I needed a part-time job to keep me busy. The question was: What exactly could I do?<\/span><\/p>\n

Secretarial work was out\u2014I couldn\u2019t take shorthand, and I typed at a snail\u2019s pace. I cooked for a husband and children, but that wasn\u2019t enough to prepare me for a job in any of the restaurants near my home in Kansas City, Missouri. What was I qualified for?<\/p>\n

The answer came one day as I drove past a lot full of school buses. I pulled over to the side of the road. That\u2019s it!<\/em> I thought. I loved kids, plus I\u2019d put plenty of miles on our family Chevy.<\/p>\n

First I had to pass a written test for my chauffeur\u2019s license. Then I began driving practice. The bus was enormous. I could turn, shift, brake, accelerate, but I could not get the huge thing into reverse. When my husband asked how my training was going, I told him, \u201cFine, as long as no kid lives on a dead-end street.\u201d<\/p>\n

Please, Lord, <\/em>I prayed, help me drive the bus.<\/em><\/p>\n

By the time school started that year I\u2019d gotten the hang of it. I was happy in my new work. I became a combination chauffeur, nurse and friend. And if the kids needed it, I\u2019d put on my \u201cTough Big Sister\u201d act. It was a lot like my previous job\u2014being a mom.<\/p>\n

When I think about my years of bus driving, I remember the snowstorms that seemed to start on Thanksgiving and last through March. I remember Christmases when I was presented with hundreds of \u201cI love you, Polly\u201d cards. I remember hearing \u201cItsy-Bitsy Spider\u201d sung over and over until I heard it in my sleep. Mostly, though, I remember Charlie.<\/p>\n

Charlie began riding my bus in September of my fourth year driving. Eight years old, with blond hair and crystalline gray eyes, he got on with a group of children. They all had stories to tell me about their summers. Charlie, though, ignored me. He didn\u2019t even answer when I asked his name.<\/p>\n

From that day on, Charlie was a trial. If a fight broke out I didn\u2019t have to turn my head to know who had started it. If someone was throwing spitballs I could guess the culprit\u2019s name. If a girl was crying, chances were Charlie had pulled her hair. No matter how I spoke to him, gently or firmly, he wouldn\u2019t say a word. He\u2019d just stare at me with those big gray eyes of his.<\/p>\n

I asked around some, and found out Charlie\u2019s father was dead and he didn\u2019t live with his mother. He deserves my patience, <\/em>I thought. So I practiced every bit of patience I could muster. To my cheery \u201cGood morning,\u201d he was silent. When I wished him a happy Halloween, he sneered. Many, many times I asked God how I could reach Charlie. \u201cI\u2019m at my wit\u2019s end,\u201d I\u2019d say. Still I was sure that this child needed to feel some warmth from me. So, when he\u2019d pass by, I\u2019d ruffle his hair or pat him on the arm.<\/p>\n

Toward the end of that year, the kids on my bus gave me a small trophy inscribed \u201cTo the Best Bus Driver Ever.\u201d I propped it up on the dashboard. On top I hung a small tin heart that a little girl had given me. In red paint she had written, \u201cI love Polly and Polly loves me.\u201d<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

On the next-to-last day of school I was delayed a few minutes talking to the principal. When I got on the bus I realized that the tin heart was gone. \u201cDoes anyone know what happened to the little heart that was up here?\u201d I asked. For once with 39 children, there was silence.<\/p>\n

One boy piped up, \u201cCharlie was the first one on the bus. I bet he took it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Other children joined the chorus, \u201cYeah! Charlie did it! Search him!\u201d<\/p>\n

I asked Charlie, \u201cHave you seen the heart?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know what you\u2019re talking about,\u201d he protested. Standing up, he took a few pennies and a small ball out of his pockets. \u201cSee, I don\u2019t have it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI bet he does!\u201d insisted the girl who had given me the heart. \u201cCheck his pockets.\u201d<\/p>\n

Charlie glowered when I asked him to come forward. His gaze burned into mine. I stuck my hand into one pocket. Nothing. I reached into the other pocket. Then I felt it\u2014the familiar outline of the small tin heart. Charlie stared at me for a long time. There were no tears in those big gray eyes, no plea for mercy. He seemed to be waiting for what he\u2019d come to expect from the world. I was about to pull the tin heart out of Charlie\u2019s pocket when I stopped myself. Let him keep it, a voice seemed to whisper.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt must have fallen off before I got here,\u201d I said to the kids. \u201cI\u2019ll probably find it back at the bus depot.\u201d Without a word, Charlie returned to his seat. When he got off at his stop, he didn\u2019t so much as glance at me.<\/p>\n

That summer Charlie moved away. The next school year, and every one thereafter, my bus was filled with new kids, some difficult, some delightful, all of them engaging. I remember the six-year-old girl who\u2019d wet her pants with maddening regularity every Friday afternoon. I remember my horror when one of my riders was struck by a car whose driver had ignored the flashing bus lights. I knelt by the dazed child, holding him still so as to prevent further damage to his broken leg. And every spring there was a tornado warning, when I\u2019d promise the kids I\u2019d get them home safely.<\/p>\n

Later, my husband and I bought our own small fleet of school buses, and I had more children under my care. Maybe because of my failure with Charlie, I worked extra hard to reach out to each one.<\/p>\n

Eventually I retired. And there my story as a school bus driver ends, except for one more incident. A dozen years after retirement I was in a department store in Kansas City, when someone said tentatively, \u201cPolly?\u201d<\/p>\n

I turned to see a balding man who was approaching middle age. \u201cYes?\u201d<\/p>\n

His face didn\u2019t look familiar until I noticed his big gray eyes. There was no doubt. It was Charlie.<\/p>\n

He told me he was living in Montana and doing well. Then, to my surprise, he hugged me. After he let go, he pulled something from his pocket and held it up for me to see. An old key chain \u2026 bent out of shape, the lettering faded. You can probably guess what it was\u2014the little tin heart that said, \u201cI love Polly and Polly loves me.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou were the only one who kept trying,\u201d he explained. We hugged again, and went our separate ways. That night I thought over his words. You were the only one who kept trying.<\/em> Of course, someone else kept trying too\u2014and not just with Charlie. Before I fell asleep I thanked the Lord for the reassurance that I\u2019d done a good job and for all the qualifications he\u2019d given me to do it with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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