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Billy Graham is  now 96 years-old with Parkinson's disease.  In January 2000 leaders  in Charlotte, North Carolina
invited their favorite son, Billy Graham, to a  luncheon in his honor. Billy initially hesitated to accept the invitation because he  struggles with Parkinson's  disease. But the Charlotte leaders said,  'We  don't expect a major address. Just come and let us  honor you.' So he agreed. After wonderful things were said about him, Dr. Graham stepped to the rostrum, looked at  the crowd, and said, "I'm  reminded today of Albert Einstein, the great physicist who this month has been honored by  Time magazine as the Man of the Century.  Einstein was once traveling from Princeton on a train when  the conductor came down the aisle, punching the tickets of every passenger. When he came to  Einstein, Einstein reached in his vest pocket. He  couldn't find his ticket, so he reached in his  trouser pockets.  It wasn't there.  He looked in his briefcase but couldn't  find it.  Then he looked in the seat  beside him. He still couldn't find it. "The conductor said, 'Dr. Einstein, I know who you are. We all know who you are. I'm sure you bought a ticket. Don't worry about it.'
Einstein nodded appreciatively.  The conductor continued down the aisle punching  tickets. As he was ready to move to the next car, he turned around and saw the great physicist down on his hands and knees looking under his seat for his ticket.
"The conductor rushed back and said, 'Dr. Einstein, Dr. Einstein, don't worry, I know  who you are; no problem. You don't need a ticket.  I'm sure you bought one.' Einstein looked at him and said, "Young man, I too, know who I  am.  What I don't know is where I'm going.”
Having said  that, Billy Graham continued, "See the suit I'm wearing?  It's a brand new suit.  My children, and my grandchildren are telling me I've gotten a little slovenly in my old age.  I used to be a bit more fastidious. So I
went  out and bought a new suit for this luncheon and one  more occasion. You know what that occasion  is?  This is the suit in which I'll be buried. But when you hear I'm dead, I don't want you to immediately  remember the suit I'm wearing. I want you to remember this:  I not only know who I  am. I also know where I'm going.  May  your troubles be less, your blessings more, and may nothing but happiness, come through your door.  Life without God is like an un-sharpened pencil - it has no point."


"Amen and peace, my friends.  And may each of  us have lived our lives so that when our ticket is punched, we don't have to worry about where we are going."
Even at his age  and with Parkinson's Disease, he could still deliver a powerful sermon !