A widow was driving with the children to his wife's funeral where he was to preach the sermon. As they came into one small town there strode down in front of them a truck that came to stop before a red light. It was the biggest truck the man had ever seen in his life, and the sun was shining on it at just the right angle that took its shadow and spread it across the snow on the field beside it.

As the shadow covered that field, he said, "Look children at that truck, and look at its shadow. If you had to be run over, which would you rather be run over by? Would you rather be run over by the truck or by the shadow?"

The youngest child said, "The shadow couldn't hurt anybody."

"That's right," the man continued, "and death is a truck, but the shadow is all that ever touches the Christian. The truck ran over the Lord Jesus. Only the shadow is gone over mother."