Sing to the Lord

This evening we finally got to sing!

It was two years ago that we first suggested to the nursing home in our neighborhood that we would like to do something for them. We invited them to the Christmas concert with Listen Up! and 14 came. We suggested then that we could come sing for them as a church choir. Plans were made, a date was set – and then it didn’t go through. Another date was set and we showed up, only to find a different activity director who knew nothing of the appointment. Frustrating, to say the least.

Then I got another email from the previous activity director. She had been sick, had had her baby and been sick again, but now had gotten the courage to contact us and apologize. Could we still come? We set a date, made plans, she put up flyers – and then got sick. But this time we only needed to move it a week. So tonight we finally got to sing!

It was great! Not everyone could be there (because of the moving of the date, Stephan was off in London with his school), but those who were there sang with their hearts. It was great to get the people in the audience to sing along with us as well. It is just so good to sing about the Lord.

Afterwards we sat and talked, got to know the people who live at this home. Some impressions that will stay with us: a couple who had been married 66 years. As they headed back to their room, the husband – who uses a walker on wheels – pushed his walker, lifted his feet and glided along, just like I do when I am in the grocer store driving the cart. You would not have guessed that he was 88! Another woman at the same table sings with the choir in the nursing home. She had never been a singer, she said. But now she sings in the choir – and wouldn’t give it up for the world. Several other ladies also sing in the choir – they sang with us on several of the songs, including “O sacred head”.

We had wanted to do this so that we could get to know some of the people in our neighborhood and so that we could serve. It is so good to give, just because you have been given so much. Thank you for your prayers for tonight. Continue to pray that we can continue to get to know these people even better and that God can use us mightily to show His love and grace.