Morning thought 3 Wednesday, January 23
When I came back from my trip to Romania last month with Mustard Seed
Jersey, I came back with memories some good, some challenging.
One memory that I will carry with me for a long time was a visit to an
elderly pensioners house to take her her Christmas
shoebox and her food parcel. The little pensioner was crippled and could hardly
move.
She invited us in to her very poor.
I’ve been to that home several times before, what struck me as strange
was that the little lady was weeping all the time. We gave her her food parcel showed her what was in it we gave her
Christmas shoebox helped to open it but still she wept. Finally
the translator discovered that the poor woman’s husband had died that very
afternoon. The little lady wanted to show us where his body was laid.
Through the translator we tried to comfort her as best we could. We left
quite distressed and disturbed as we went back to the minibus
Since coming back I have thought a number of
times about how will this crippled woman will manage on her own. I hope and
pray the neighbours who helped us open her gate will visit and help. They had
no idea the husband had died a few hours before.
In the Bible there is much about our responsibility to help the
vulnerable and those who cannot manage alone.
Let’s share a moment of prayer
God of all comfort we pray for those who are suffering, especially the
bereaved. We ask that you will make each one of us channels of your comfort to
those people we meet who are hurting. We pray that meeting us will help to ease
their sorrow. Amen.