This past Sunday, we made our weekly lunch stop at Eagles Landing after church. We ended up sitting right beside an elderly man who was eating alone. Even as a young child, I've always had a very tender heart for the elderly and have always felt sad when I see them alone, especially at a restaurant. We sat down and right away the gentleman and I began chatting and he ended up telling us all about how he works at the hospital to cheer up patients there and how he was looking forward to any upcoming trip to New Orleans where he grew up. By his thick New Orleans accent, it was easy to tell he'd lived there a long time! He told us stories about playing hide and seek in an old three story house that his grandmother owned there when he was a child. He told us about living all around the US before retirement and about his grown children. And then, with tears in his eyes, he told us his wife had died two weeks ago and they had been married for 54 years. At that moment, I was so glad the Lord had placed us in his path on that rainy Sunday afternoon. Little did we know that God was at work as we walked through those doors and placed us right where He needed us to cheer and comfort someone we didn't even know. I was so grateful to have spent some time talking with this sweet man, and it brought to mind the words of the song ...
What can I say to cheer a world of sorrow?
How bring back hope where men have sorely failed?
Just where I am I'll speak the word of comfort,
Tell how for me Christ's sacrifice availed.
Just where he needs me, my Lord has placed me,
Just where he needs me, there would I be!
And since he found me, by love he's bound me
To serve him joyfully.
What can I do to ease life's heavy burdens?
What can I do to help mankind in need?
Just where I am I'll share my neighbor's hardship,
Lighten his load, and prove a friend indeed.
Just where he needs me, my Lord has placed me,
Just where he needs me, there would I be!
And since he found me, by love he's bound me
To serve him joyfully.
True and funny stories from the lighter side of raising my sons and daughter. As the Southern mama of this crew, I'm usually somewhere between "Bless your hearts!" and "Y'all act like you got some sense!" If we ever need to find our way home, we just follow the trail of red clay and glitter.
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