Prayer - Norman Vincent Peale

The Most Powerful Form of Energy

Early one morning I arrived at the Grand Central Station in New York and took a taxi to my home. The driver proved to be a very happy and friendly man.

"You’re up bright and early this morning," I commented.

"Oh!" he replied, "I am here every morning at this time; that is, every morning except Sunday."

"And what do you do on Sunday?" I asked.

"Why, what do you suppose?" he replied. "I go to church." He stopped for a traffic light. "That isn’t the whole of it," he said. "I sing in the choir also. I like the old hymns, don’t you?"

Upon my agreement, he suddenly offered: "Would you like me to sing a hymn for you?"

This was astonishing, but one learns to expect almost anything in New York, so I said: "Yes, I would like to hear you sing." At this he broke into one of the old hymns, which he sang in a clear tenor voice as we rolled down Fifth Avenue.

© `A Guide to Confident Living’ by Norman Vincent Peale published (1983) by Gulab Vazirani for Arnold-Heinemann Publishers (India) Pvt. Ltd., AB/9, Safdarjang Enclave, New Delhi 110 029.

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