Finding Faith in a Bedpan

An early morning a nun was driving to a nursing home where she volunteered regularly. She ran out of gasoline in her car on the way, the road was less travelled and she couldn't find anybody to take her to a gas station. So she walked to a gas station some distance away. She explained to the clerk her situation and asked to lend her a gas can. Unfortunately,the station was all out gas cans, so both of them began to look for a container large enough to take some gasoline back to the car. They couldn't find any container big enough. The clerk then remembered about the bedpan he purchased the day before to give to his elderly mother who was bedridden. So he filled up the bedpan with gasoline and gave it to the nun along with a funnel, who took it and walked back to her car. She was really exhausted by the time she returned to the car, so she put the bedpan down and crouched down next to it to catch her breath.

There was a man walking down the street, and he saw the nun putting down the bedpan and crouching down next to it. This man was heading towards the railroad tracks nearby to commit suicide. Life hasn't been good to him, failures followed him all his life, and he was on the brink of losing his home to foreclosure. He tried many times to turn to God, but had a hard time believing. So that morning he decided to end all the madness on the railroad tracks once and for all. As he watched the nun crouching down next to the bedpan, he immediately thought that the nun had "to go", and it made sense because there were no places with restrooms near by. But he was a bit surprised by her decision to relieve herself into a bedpan on the side of the road. He was curious and decided to watch the nun to see what she is doing next. 

A bit later, the nun felt better and she got up and opened the cap to pour the gasoline from the bedpan into the gas tank. She made a sign of cross and prayed that there should be enough gas for her to get back to the gas station. The man couldn't believe his eyes as he watched the nun. He said to himself, "I have heard that Jesus turned water into wine to help a family in distress, but I never believed it. But if He is going to turn urine into gasoline to help this nun, then I will not need no other proof that 'For men this is impossible, but for God all things are possible' (Matthew 19:26)". The nun finished pouring the gasoline from the bedpan, got back in her car and drove off. The man also turned around and walked back home with a firm belief in the almighty, all powerful God for whom nothing is impossible.