Keiki Hendrix

Has God ever arrested your heart?  Maybe He’s shown you a miracle just to invade your space? He’s done that with me recently.

For all my days, I don’t think I will ever understand this Savior of mine.  I study and I pray. I walk as close as I can, and still there are times when He just takes my breath.

We recently lost our Pastor to cancer. Not wanting any of our home bound members to be neglected, I volunteered to visit our elderly women members. Preacher Greg was faithful to do that. You see, Preacher Greg knew what true religion was.

“Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this,
To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction,
and to keep himself unspotted from the world.”
- James 1:27

I’d never met most of the women I visited. Most were in Assisted Living Centers, but one was living at home. I am not sure what I expected to find when I went to see these women.  I was more concerned that they not feel that their church had forgotten them because the last visits Preacher Greg was able to make were in June. He passed away in July.

But God did what He does best, in visiting these women – I walked away blessed beyond measure. I left each visit wondering why I hadn’t thought to visit these wonderful women before there was a need to visit?

Perhaps I am a bit thick-headed, or maybe I am just too busy to stop and consider that small things, like visiting the elderly, cost so very little but the blessing we walk away with cannot be measured.

If you are reading this, consider setting aside some time to visit the elderly. They will welcome you and what’s more, you will walk away, as I did, more blessed than when you arrived.