Branch Out
Day 313
If your life has been monopolized up until this point with
grief and other grieving people, it is time to branch out. Get involved in a
group that includes a variety of people with a similar interest (people who are
not grieving).
“I had no neighbors to visit me except a young girl across
the street,” says Gretchen, “and she kept saying, ‘You need to belong to the
garden club. You just stay in all the time.’ She’d wait about six months, and
she’d catch me at the mailbox, and she’d say, ‘You still don’t want to join the
garden club?’ I’d say, ‘No, I can’t.’ She said, ‘Well, I’m just going to put
your name on the list anyway.’ And I said, ‘If it ever comes up, I probably
won’t be able to go on account of my husband’s illness.’ She said, ‘We’ll see
about that.’
“Well, my husband died the sixteenth of August, and my name
came up in September to join the neighborhood garden club. That was just the
hand of the Lord. It was a way for me to get out and start meeting my
neighbors.”
In whatever group you choose to be involved in, you will be
an asset. If you think your presence does not benefit the group in any way, you
are wrong. God made each person to be an important part of the whole.
“The eye cannot say to the hand, ‘I don’t need you!’ And the
head cannot say to the feet, ‘I don’t need you!’ On the contrary, those parts
of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensible” (1 Corinthians 12:21-22).
Lord, where do You
need me? Amen.
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