Stretched

Over the last three or four months, our Life Group has been serving at the “Wooldridge Place” nursing home. We go on the third Wednesday of every month in place of meeting for life group.

Well, I have to admit, I was not real fired up about going those first couple of times….in fact I dreaded it. But I felt that God wanted to stretch me, and so I asked to be stretched!

Well, after several months of going, I started to settle in more and began to see God working through our life group. We have small children and the folks at the nursing home just love to see them. My daughter brings her nail polish and gives all the ladies manicures and they just eat it up. My son and I mostly play dominoes with the folks there and we all have a great time.

I have taken a particular liking to one little old lady. My son, Nevin, the other boys, and I always find her and we play dominoes. One of the last times we were there, she asked someone in our group, “Who are you here to see?”. And the response was, “We’re here to see you!”. She seemed shocked but pleased.

This lady grew up in west Texas, and she has a daughter who lives in Corpus here, but she travels quite a bit and apparently rarely visits her mother. The last time we were there and it came time to leave, she asked when we were coming back. We told her the 3rd Wednesday of every month, but I sensed that she wanted us to come back sooner, and honestly we wanted to come back sooner as well! My family and I have grown to love our new friend and we will be visting her more often than just once a month…..talk about being stretched!