Today was a very exciting day for me... LOL... Yes I went to class. Church History is just amazing. I am learning so much. After class I decided since I was already in school mode I would get some homework knocked out. Well I went and turned the classical music station on my ipod app Pandora on. I did some homework. I then went and had some lunch and Laura my dorm mate invited me to get out and go to the store with her...
Well I have to give you a little background about me before I go any further... When I was little my grandmother had a friend that her mother was in a nursing home... Her name was Theresa... And I loved her dearly. My grandma would take me to the nursing home often and I would go around and visit all the people and push them in their wheel chairs. They loved me and I loved spending time with them... I have had a heart for the elderly since then...
So back to today. I was in WinCo with Laura and they have this section where you can buy candy and other things in bulk. Well we went around and she got what she wanted and then we went to go down this isle and I noticed this elderly man next to one of the bins. I didn't think anything about it and we came up the other isle and he had stopped there and had his head down like he just couldn't go on anymore. And I noticed that he had a neck brace on and I just hurt for him. Even writing this right now I am crying because I remember seeing him. I saw the struggle he had to just go grocery shopping. I wanted to walk over to him and tell him to go wait in his car and I would do his shopping for him.
With all that, we kept shopping and I could only think about him and what it would have probably meant to him to have some one come and help him.
I started thinking about all the times God had laid on my heart about the elderly. I wondered why I feel for them so much and then I get along with them also. I have come to the conclusion that I am supposed to have some elderly ministry in my life. And I am still praying and will be praying for a while until I get a clearer answer... but I think it entails some type of home ministry for them. To go and visit the shut ins that can't get out and just visit and do things around their house for them or go shopping for them. I would love that... I think I want to call it the "adopt a Grandparent" ministry.
I am praying that God can help me build this ministry and will bring others into it that want to and have the fire to do this and care about it. I know that if this is what He wants me to do He will provide everything I need including a car. Well today I found my heart in the bulk bins of the WinCo and I am grateful for the vision and what God can use... If he can speak through a donkey He certainly can use the bulk bins... LOL anyways... In thoughtful prayer... God bless
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