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Subject: FW: Edith and Easter..........((VERY GOOD))













> THE STORY OF EDITH BURNS...
>
> Happy Easter!
>
> Edith Burns was a wonderful Christian who lived in San
> Antonio , Texas .
> She was the patient of a doctor by the name of Will
> Phillips. Dr. Phillips
> was a gentle doctor who saw patients as people. His
> favorite patient was
> Edith Burns.
>
> One morning he went to his office with a heavy heart and
> it was because of
> Edith Burns. When he walked into that waiting room,
> there sat Edith with
> her big black Bible in her lap earnestly talking to a young
> mother sitting
> beside her.
>
> Edith Burns had a habit of introducing herself in this way:
>
> "Hello, my name is Edith Burns. Do you believe in
> Easter?" Then she
> would explain the meaning of Easter, and many times people
> would be
> saved.
>
> Dr. Phillips walked into that office and there he
> saw the head nurse,
> Beverly. Beverly had first met Edith when she was taking
> her blood pressure.
>
> Edith began by saying,"My name is Edith Burns. Do you
> believe in Easter?"
>
> Beverlysaid, "Why yes I do."
>
> Edith said, "Well, what do you believe about
> Easter?"
>
> Beverlysaid, "Well, it's all about egg hunts,
> going to church, and dressing
> up." Edith kept pressing her about the real meaning
> of Easter, and finally
> led her to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ.
>
> Dr. Phillips said, " Beverly , don't call Edith
> into the office quite yet. I
> believe there is another delivery taking place in the
> waiting room.
>
> After being called back in the doctor's office, Edith
> sat down and when she
> took a look at the doctor she said, "Dr. Will, why are
> you so sad? Are you
> reading your Bible? Are you praying?"
>
> Dr. Phillips said gently, "Edith, I'm the doctor
> and you're the patient" With
> a
> heavy heart he said, "Your lab report came back and it
> says you have
> cancer, and Edith, you're not going to live very
> long."
>
> Edith said, "Why Will Phillips, shame on you. Why are
> you so sad? Do you
> think God makes mistakes? You have just told me I'm
> going to see my
> precious Lord Jesus, my husband, and my friends. You have
> just told me that
> I am going to celebrate Easter forever, and here you are
> having difficulty
> giving me my ticket!"
>
> Dr. Phillips thought to himself, "What a magnificent
> woman this Edith Burns
> is!"
>
> Edith continued coming to Dr. Phillips. Christmas came and
> the office
> was
> closed through January 3rd. On the day the office opened,
> Edith did not
> show up. Later that afternoon, Edith called Dr. Phillips
> and said she would
> have to be moving her story to the hospital and said,
> "Will, I'm very near
> home, so would you make sure that they put women in here
> next to me in my
>
> room who need to know about Easter."
>
> Well, they did just that and women began to come in and
> share that room
> with Edith. Many women were saved. Everybody on that floor
> from staff to
> patients were so excited about Edith, that they started
> calling her Edith
> Easter; that is everyone
> except Phyllis Cross, the head nurse.
>
> Phyllis made it plain that she wanted nothing to do with
> Edith because she
> was a "religious nut". She had been a nurse in an
> army hospital. She had
> seen it all and heard it all. She was the original G.I.
> Jane. She had been
> married three times, she was hard, cold, and did everything
> by the book.
>
>
> One morning the two nurses who were to attend to Edith were
> sick.
> Edith had the flu and Phyllis Cross had to go in and give
> her a shot. When
> she walked in, Edith had a big smile on her face and said,
> "Phyllis, God
> loves you and I love you, and I have been praying for
> you."
>
> Phyllis Cross said, "Well, you can quit praying for
> me, it won't work.. I'm
> not interested."
>
> Edith said, "Well, I will pray and I have asked God
> not to let me go home
> until you come into the family."
>
> Phyllis Cross said, "Then you will never die because
> that will never happen,"
> and curtly walked out of the room.
>
> Every day Phyllis Cross would walk into the room and Edith
> would say,
> "God loves you Phyllis and I love you, and I'm
> praying for you."
>
> One day Phyllis Cross said she was literally drawn to
> Edith's room like a
> magnet would draw iron.. She sat down on the bed and Edith
> said, "I'm so
> glad you have come, because God told me that today is your
> special day"
>
> Phyllis Cross said, "Edith, you have asked everybody
> here the question,
> "Do you believe in Easter but you have never asked
> me."
>
> Edith said, "Phyllis, I wanted to many times, but God
> told me to wait until
> you asked, and now that you have asked." Edith Burns
> took her Bible and
> shared with Phyllis Cross the Easter Story of the death,
> burial and
> resurrection of Jesus Christ. Edith said, "Phyllis, do
> you believe in Easter?
> Do you believe that Jesus Christ is alive and that He wants
> to live in
> your
> heart?"
>
> Phyllis Cross said, "Oh I want to believe that with
> all of my heart, and I do
> want Jesus in my life "Right there, Phyllis Cross
> prayed and invited Jesus
> Christ into her heart. For the first time Phyllis Cross did
> not walk out of a
> hospital room, she was carried out on the wings of angels.
>
> Two days later, Phyllis Cross came in and Edith said,
> "Do you know what
> day it is?" Phyllis Cross said, "Why Edith,
> it's Good Friday."
>
> Edith said, "Oh, no, for you every day is Easter.
>
> Happy Easter Phyllis!"
>
> Two days later, on Easter Sunday, Phyllis Cross came into
> work, did some
> of her duties and then went down to the flower shop and got
> some Easter
> lilies because she wanted to go up to see Edith and give
> her some
> Easter lilies and wish her a Happy Easter.
>
>
> When she walked into Edith's room, Edith was in bed.
> That big black Bible
> was on her lap. Her hands were in that Bible. There was a
> sweet smile on
> her face. When Phyllis Cross went to pick up Edith's
> hand, she realized
> Edith was dead. Her left hand was on John 14: "In my
> Father's house are
> many mansions. I go to prepare a place for you, I will come
> again and
> receive you to Myself, that where I am, there you may be
> also."
>
> Her right hand was on Revelation 21:4, "And God will
> wipe away every tear
> from their eyes, there shall be no more death nor sorrow,
> nor crying; and
> there shall be no more pain, for the former things have
> passed away."
>
> Phyllis Cross took one look at that dead body, and then
> lifted her face
> toward heaven, and with tears streaming down here cheeks,
> said, "Happy
> Easter, Edith - Happy Easter!"
>
> Phyllis Cross left Edith's body, walked out of the
> room, and over to a table
> where two student nurses
> were sitting. She said, "My name is Phyllis Cross.
>
> Do you believe in Easter?"
>
>
> If you believe in Easter, forward this on. God works in
> wonderful ways, and
> to believe in his power is to truly be free. If Jesus had
> e-mail, he'd do
> the same for you.
>
>
> (Actually, maybe He just did)
>
> "Father, bless this person in whatever it is that You
> know he or she may be
> needing this day"