I had not expected that
When we arrive in Curahuasi by cab on Tuesday evening, we find that the battery of our car is completely dead. In addition, the right rear wheel impresses with total airlessness. In other words, it’s flat. Pit Werner, head of our workshop department, helps me out with external power. While the engine is running, I mount the spare wheel.
In the morning I drive hopefully to my tire man at the Panamericana. Although I have used his services for many years, I don’t even know his name. But there were always a few minutes for a nice conversation. And my acquaintance from the tire repair shop was happy as a snow king that he is shown in this year’s Diospi Suyana calendar in the July photo. A scene so right from life.
His shutter is down and I take a look around. Something is not right here. I ask a friendly gentleman in the store next door. “What time does the tire man open today?” I want to know. The man answers seriously. “He’s dead!” – I fall out of all the clouds. “What happened?” I hang on his lips. “Yes, he had spinal surgery in Lima. Then he suddenly died!”
Perhaps a pulmonary embolism or heart attack ended his life. I start to ponder. Whether he reckoned with the dimension of heaven on the other side of the grave?
On the text page of our calendar, there is the following paragraph: “Because God has come down to us in the person of Jesus, we no longer have to despair. We are more than a speck of dust in a vast and dark universe. In John’s Gospel, the apostle sums up the good news: “For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life!” /KDJ
