SUNDAY MORNING LADY
	Early one Sunday morning my closest friend, Sharon and I went on one of our regular excursions just poking around town to see what we could get into. We passed by the intersection of Busch Boulevard and 30th Street. There, right in front of the Taco Bell standing on the median in the center of Busch Boulevard facing east was an older lady. She just stood there tall and straight as the sun was starting to rise high in the sky. She was very well dressed like a lady on Sunday morning going to church. We were mildly concerned because it was summer and we knew that soon it would be getting hot. We scarcely left our houses together without some sort of insolent happening to us. We went joyfully on our way whilst the thought of the "church lady" was still simmering in our heads. After a couple of hours we came back by the intersection and surprisingly she was still there, standing like a statue in the same position, facing east. By that time the Taco Bell was open and we sat at an outside table there after calling the police and telling them about our concerns. We said "Please hurry. The sun is high and it's starting to get hot!" While we watched and waited for the police we witnessed a number of people stop and try to talk and even escort her off of the median. She would have no part it. We were afraid that if they tried to force her that a tussle might ensue and the frail woman might fall into traffic. That's actually why we hadn't interfered with her other than..."Let's CALL the law." After a short wait a police car quietly pulled up beside her and stopped. One officer stayed in the car behind the wheel and the other one got out to talk to her. He was what you pictured all nice looking, young policemen looking like. Sharon said "Oh my." We couldn't hear what was being said but he said something to her and she said something back. Then he said something to her and opened the back door and she got right in as pretty as you please and they drove away. We were very relieved but also curious as to what the officer might have said to her. We said "Well, that's a mystery we'll never know." About two months after that Sharon's next door neighbor one night had a peeping Tom and they called the police. They lived about five blocks from Busch Boulevard and 30th Street. All the lookieloos in the neighborhood including Sharon gathered around the neighbor's front yard to find out what all the excitement was about. One of the officers responding to the call was none other than that same policeman and Sharon had no trouble recognizing him at all. She said to him "Do you remember a call you had a couple of months ago about an older, well dressed lady standing on the median on Busch and 30th?" He, of course did. She told him that she was the one who had called then asked him "How in the world did you persuade her to get into your car when no one else was able to. What did you say?" He said "I asked her what she was doing out there and she said 'Jesus told me to come stand here and face the east.' so she did." Sharon asked him what he said then. He said "I told her that Jesus told us to let her know she had been there long enough and He wanted her to come in now." Lynn Ash