Delivering Love
Al came home from his men’s group one Wednesday morning toting two small potted poinsettias and a large manilla envelope. He explained that we were asked to deliver the poinsettias along with Christmas cards to two church members who were in residential homes. There had been an announcement the previous Sunday about an ambitious project to deliver the gifts to more than 200 former or current congregants who had recently lost a loved one or who were in assisted living facilities! At that time only about a dozen people had volunteered to help. We felt like it was something that we could do together, realizing the loneliness and isolation many of the folks in residential homes experience. Our house was just a few miles from the place where Al’s mom spent her final years. Al and I had visited her there many times prior to her passing away. After moving to Michigan, I often thought of going back to that facility, but ...
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