Morning
Thought 2 for Tuesday February 9th 2016
Good
morning. 2 months ago I was in Romania with Mustard Seed Jersey packing and
distributing food parcels.
Our
first task on arriving in Romania was to go shopping at the huge hypermarket
using money donated from Jersey to buy the contents for food parcels.
Later
we packed up the food parcels. For those living rough without cooking
facilities we gave different contents than for those who could cook. All in all
it was infinitely satisfying to know we were making a real difference to
people.
Over
the next few days, we had the privilege of accompanying the social workers to
some of the dwellings to give out the food parcels to those in need. Inevitably
some visits stick in our minds more than others.
Going
with a couple of the students from Beaulieu Convent School who were helping, I
went to several homes of housebound pensioners in one of the villages. At the
first, the woman holding onto her stick was waiting outside in the cold for us
to come. The second house was a poor little shack, inside it was warm and smokey thanks to the wood burning stove. The little woman
there was crippled and could hardly move, but she hobbled to door to let us in
as we delivered her Christmas shoebox and her food parcel.
The
final house we went to in that village was a much better house, but the elderly
owner had fallen on hard times and could barely afford to heat the one room
which he used for everything. He was lonely and delighted to have people to
talk to. When we finally said we must leave, he prayed with us, thanking God
for us and for what we were doing; he asked for God’s blessing on us.
A
prayer for us today: Lord help
us to be a blessing to those we meet today.