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When Computer Files Make You Cry
Sometimes looking through old photo albums makes people cry. Today, looking through old files on my computer made me cry. In 2020, when the entire world closed and everyone was shut away inside their homes, I was desperate to find a way to connect with the nursing home residents in my mother-in-law’s facility where we’d…
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Easter In Heaven
It’s hard to believe that last Easter Todd and I went to the nursing home to pick up our friend and take him with us to church. It was the first time Stu had been outside of the nursing home for church in at least a year or more. Weeks before, when I asked him…
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The Least of These
Yesterday afternoon I witnessed grace, mercy, and compassion poured out in the most unexpected of places and between the most unexpected of people. For the past several years, we have partnered with the local detention center each fall to bring pumpkins and mums to area nursing homes. A small group of qualifying inmates works a…
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Bible study | church | elderly | volunteer
Are you a Shepherd?
Sometimes at the nursing home, after we finish up our little church gathering, a resident will come up to me and say, “I liked your sermon.” Immediately, after saying thank you, I say, “Oh, but it wasn’t a sermon. As a woman, I am not a preacher or a pastor. We just read the Bible…
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Honestly, It’s Just Too Depressing
In 2019, there was a study released that detailed the reasons why people do not go to visit their loved ones in a nursing home. The top reason given was that their job or work hours prevented them from doing so. And the number two reason? It’s too depressing. That’s right, 40% of very honest…
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The Only New Year’s Resolution You Need
When I was homeschooling my kids during their elementary school years, a key part of our day was our read-aloud time. I read so many great books to them, including biographies of inspirational people. For a time we read about several missionaries, and there was one that really stuck with me–George Mueller. He was born…
