A 2009 article in the Chicago Tribune told the story of Bettye Tucker, a Christian cook who works the night shift at Children's Memorial Hospital in Chicago, Illinois. She has been doing her job for 43 years-28 of them on the night shift. She sees a steady stream of parents in her job, many of them frightened and weary.
On one particular night around the time the article was written, Miss Bettye (as she is referred to by all who know her) served food to a mother whose three-year-old fell out of a second story window that morning, another mother whose seventeen-year-old was battling a rare form of leukemia, and a third mother whose eighteen-year-old had endured seven hours of brain surgery. Their stories break the heart of Miss Bettye, and as one
coworker interviewed for the article says, "that's why she feeds every last one of them as if they had walked right into the 'too-small' kitchen of the South Side brick bungalow where she lives."
A member of the hospital's housekeeping crew adds this about Miss Bettye: "You need someone to bring you life, and she brings it in the middle of the night."
This world NEEDS more people like Bettye...especially from Christians. We often get so caught up in such a wide variety of things that eat away at our time. What if each person that claimed Christianity actually LIVED that message the way that Bettye does?
How will your Creator use YOU today to touch another person's life in a positive way?