Saturday, December 26, 2009
Christmas, Candy and Susie
This Christmas was a little different for our family. We invited a homeless friend Candy to join in our celebration. We have known her for several years. She was our neighbor and then they were going to sell the house so she had to move out. I helped her to move into a place several miles away but that is not working too well so I am hoping and praying some situation will work for her and it will be livable. She was with us Christmas eve and Christmas Day. I enjoyed her presence very much. When I arriived home from my sister's house on Christmas night, my husband told me he had taken her to a motel and paid for two nights there. The motel turns out to be just a block from the church we sang at. I am praying something acceptable and more permanent will open up for her. The day after Christmas, I was shopping and ran into Susie, another homeless friend who spent all of Christmas Day sleeping because she was alone. I was able to give her some money and tell her I had been thinking of her and praying for her. She is deeply loved by God in spite of her desperate and weak situation.
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Change your attitude and be filled with joy
There are many times when our ungrateful attitude makes us unhappy. I remember hearing about a little five year old girl who asked her mother...."Are you going to change your mind from mad to grateful?" That is the question the Lord asks us everyday....It helps me to go and find someone less fortunate to help...I met a lady named Susie who had been homeless, living on the streets for ten years. She has a skin disease so no one will hire her. Many shelters will not take her in. My heart broke for her, I gave her some money and tried to tell her Jesus could heal her. She did not want to hear so I prayed for her and bid her farewell. All night I was thinking about what it would be like to spend a cold night on the street. I prayed for her. God is a good God of miracles so I know He will work on her behalf. I thanked him with a new sense of gratitude for my home and my family and most of all, my faith in Him which means everything to me.
Monday, December 14, 2009
Sunday, December 6, 2009
A December Bride
Once my daughter was a December bride and I beamed with pride. I rejoiced in the amazing experience of her wedding....It was so lovely and I was so trilled with the man she chose....One wonderful son in law named Tim who will love and cherish her forever. I am so blessed. They are a very cute couple.....It has been three years and they make happiness happen. I am so fortunate to hear them call me, "Mom."
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
April, Brooke, Victorian and Tom
I am always meeting people who seem less fortunate in some way and I want to help them. I recently met a lady in a wheelchair named April. Part of her leg was recently amputated and she used a wheelchair to get around. Her daughter Brooke helps her. Her husband Tom is in the hospital being treated for cancer. She is a bell ringer for the salvation army. I told her about our Christmas play and she was interested in going so today I ran into her again and gave her some tickets. She said that her mother Victorian has always wanted to attend this Christmas play, but never has. That is unbelievable to me that she has never seen it after I have been attending that church off and on now for thirty five years. I am thankful that I can add some Christmas blessings to some very dear people.
Esteban
Something happened to me yesterday that helped me to see that I can be used as a tool in the community for the good of others. I subbed for a PE class at an elementary school and was able to show encouragement to a young man with muscular distrophy. I always pray for students that I have encouraged and it blesses my spirit. I also kept running into a music teacher named Esteban who plays the instruments I do...the violin and viola. I spoke to the principal about him and she said she has bought him thirty violins to use to teach his students. That evening I saw Esteban again at a rehearsal for an orchestra concert I will be playing in. I spoke with him and was amazed I would run into a person I had just met twice on the same day. He is a very good musician. I came home and found out my conductor husband knows of him and has asked him to play in his orchestra at various times in the past. It shows me what a small world we live in and that God is in control of every moment of our lives so that we can meet new people and share the good news with them.
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