Earlier this week (after being discharged, and home again), the doorbell rang. Standing outside was a delivery guy holding a basket of flowers. They're from my church family. It was such an encouraging gesture! While I was hospitalized I was visited TWICE by one of the pastors to pray with us. And now that I'm home again, I'm still not forgotten! (It's soooooo easy to feel that you're forgotten......)
One of the pastoral visits included a conversation about the amazing church service I missed. I was supposed to participate with a group of people doing a cardboard testimony at the end. But since I was hospitalized, I couldn't. [HERE'S an example one from a different church.] The sermon was about the PRODIGAL SON. I was so sorry to have missed the service, that after being discharged we phoned the church to order a cd/dvd of the service. When we did that, we were informed that at our church, if you're home-bound you can get a FREE copy! WHAT A FABULOUS BLESSING!!!!I already knew that everyone who has nursery duty during church can request a free copy of the service. It's not fair to ask those who are serving during church (and those people tend to do it on a regular basis), not to be able to participate and grow from the music, sermon, etc. But I didn't know that the free service cd/dvd also carried over to those who want to be there but can't (because they're in the hospital, etc.). This is a fabulous service that before I dealt with a long-term illness never even crossed my mind.
But now that I've been knowingly fighting a progressive, incurable, terminal illness for over 18 months ... what has become important to me has changed. NOT feeling isolated .... that's VERY important to me these days. Life is too difficult (especially when living with chronic illness) to live it stuck alone in my house.
THANK YOU CHRISTIAN LIFE ASSEMBLY FOR HELPING ME FEEL LESS ISOLATED! YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW IT'S BOOSTED MY MORALE!
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