The best saved for last!

Last week I was able to visit some elderly ladies in the neighboring village Vorniceni. As many of these ladies have a small pension and nobody is really looking after them, they are spending their days normally by waiting for the time to pass and hoping for somebody to come and see them, talk to them and help them.
This time I took also some of the teenagers with me. The day before at the teenager meeting we had discussed how we can help others and become a blessing for those around us. Now the time had come to put our study into practice! Two of the 3 ladies didn't have any jobs to do but one lady asked to help her to clean up her garden a bit by collecting the fallen leaves. And so the teenagers got tehir hands dirty and did a good job! The lady was happy and thankful.

As we handed the lady in the picture the food parcel, she asked us to open the bags and show her what was inside. As we named all the products she said several times: "oh this is defiantly an answer to my prayer. I gave my last food to my grandchildren and didn't have anything left. God pays attention to me".

Than she started to share what she had been reading in the Bible. She just had read about how the Lord Jesus at the wedding saved the best wine for the last. And she made the connection how the Lord now again had saved the best for last: her food was finished and now she got even better food! We were able to talk a little bit more about the best for the last and read together the verses from John 14 where it talks about Jesus going to prepare us a place in the Father house. Again He saved the best for the last! As we were reading these verses about this great promise for the future, the eyes of the lady started to shine and a nice smile came on her face. She suffered a lot on earth with a drunken violent husband, two sons who do not really care about her, illness, cold, hunger, etc. So to know of a great future that awaits, is a great comfort. May God bless this lady to hold on to this hope and as she reads the Bible on a daily base, may she get to know HIM more and more!

The lady in this picture is in her nineties and lives all by herself, she can't read because her parents didn't allow her to go to school. She had to go and work in the fields to help her family to survive. She has no children and only her neighbors check upon her now and than. So she is a very lonely lady but when we asked her how she was doing, she replied: "I am doing everything slowly but that's better than many others who can't walk or get out of bed anymore. I am thankful". This lady was a good reminder for us to count our blessings cause compared to many others we are very blessed and so we also have things to be thankful for!