New Beginnings

About New Beginnings, I plan to start back at the nursing home with the quilting group and also the weekly sing-a-long with Shirley B and Ken (her husband), and Shirley R. The four of us sing old-time gospel hymns for the residents. It is a lot of fun. I don’t consider myself a singer; I tell everyone that I just make “a joyful noise,” but Shirley R has a beautiful voice and sings on the worship team at her church. It has been several months that I have not been able to go to the nursing home and it will be almost like starting over. I have missed those precious people.

I have been getting blocks ready for the quilting group. I printed up several blocks from my computer and let the people in the quilting group pick out the ones they wanted to make. Then I cut out the pieces for the blocks so they can sew them together. I have material donated by family and friends, and also my husband found a trash bag full of material scraps in the alley that someone had put there for trash pickup. It was a great find. Also material was donated to the nursing home along with scissors, thread and needles just for our quilting group. God has really blessed us in this group to give us the materials that we need. God uses people even when they don’t know anything about it. I am sure that the people that threw the bag of scraps in the trash had no idea that it would be used to make so many people happy. Don’t we serve a wonderful God?!!!

My friend Jim from Christ on Campus is moving to Colorado this month and he will be truly missed. He visited with the youth there and shared the word of God with them, leading many to Christ. My friend Shirley B and I would fix a hot meal for the college youth (for Christ on Campus) on Fridays and she finished the current year last Friday. I haven’t been able to help the last few weeks and Shirley did a great job fixing meals for the kids without my help. She is great to help out whenever anyone needs anything and I am really blessed to have her for a friend.

She and another lady friend of ours brought food to me when I was not able to do the cooking for my family like I used to. My husband does some of the cooking, but he likes to eat out also, which isn’t “my thing” and I would rather eat at home. But with my stomach problems I have to watch what I eat --- until my stomach is healed anyway. A doctor friend said “think bland” when eating, so that leaves out lots of things that Chuck really loves. So he and his brother have gone out for dinner several times, or picked something up and brought it home, and I just make do with “bland.” I don’t have much of an appetite lately anyway.

I will end with this: It doesn’t take much to make people happy; a kind word, a smile, a cooked dish when they need a helping hand, a phone call to say ‘I’m thing of you.’ Also, prayer for someone is always appreciated, no matter what the need.
"Let brotherly love continue. Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.” Hebrews 13: 1-2