A miracle from my sister Marie…
I had a nice experience today. I have been asking God to force me into ways to get involved in my community because I want so badly to reach out but have a hard time making things like that happen. I need people and God to boss me around in this area. So when I got a call to come help at this retirement home, I said yes. It wasn’t a real yes yet because I was complaining a lot on the way there about what they asked of me. They wanted me to drive over and push one lady to the chapel for a funeral service. Two hours of my Saturday morning that I could have been spending with Brad and the kids, to push one lady to a chapel, wait for it to be over and then push her back to her room. Sounded dumb. On my way though, I caught myself and realized that this was God’s push. I said my “yes”. So I was originally going to bring her to the chapel and wait outside the room and work on some drawings… (still me, me all about me) when the lady implied that she would like me to join her. I very happily said yes and decided to stay. It was one of the most beautiful experiences I’d had in a long time. The woman I brought was lovely conversation while we waited for the service and the woman who the service was for was the very person I aspire to be. The service was so beautiful. This lady was an amazing person… All the details of my life that I work on and how I want to be were all in this woman. She even lived to 100 which is what I always joke that I will make it to at least. One comment that her daughter made was that she was always trying to find a way to reach out to her community and she always had her doors open. That’s what I want too.
In addition, this lady that I brought over wants me to come visit her again and bring my kids which is the very reason I wanted to start volunteering over there in the first place but was never able to do because I was trying to follow protocol of what the center needed at that time.
God is awesome.
Thanks, Marie!