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Since her beloved husband died, Verna's been "going through it," and its been rough, to put it mildly. Now I see why the NT encourages believers to watch out for older widows. If it gets this way in the 21st century for a widow of modest means, just imagine what was going on 2,000 years ago in Greco-Roman cultures. ugh.
We talk, usually daily. She's teaching me things that a lot of baby Christians don't get to learn, not like this, not this soon after being saved. She talked to me even before I (miraculously) got saved/Jesus saved me, and now...4 years later, The Lord has changed me mightily ("Know Jesus, Know Change"), and I'm learning from her.
God put us in each others' lives for a number of reasons, not all of which are apparent at this point. I need a friend, that's for sure. Verna's been a Christian since childhood, so she has decades of wisdom and experience to share with someone who will listen and hear what she's saying. We both get lonely. I get the sense that we're both kind of outsiders. I'm considered a "mental patient," but I have a "good family" behind me, etc., so now I'm living more comfortably than many (most?) other "mental patients," especially the ones with comparable backstories. Verna is a widow. Her children are very much adults. She and her husband bought a nice house together, and now she's surrounded by people who are still very much in the mainstream of society. Its The South, so there's still the formal showing of "respect" and such, but...hey, I live in the south, too; those "yes m'am" and "have a blessed day"-isms often don't amount to anything of real substance or value.
Please pray for Verna. She gets tired from it all. I encourage her to eat more, eat anything, but her appetite has been affected. There have been some (relatively minor) break-ins around her neighborhood. She's got a good alarm system and all, but that kinda stuff...can get to you.
Thanks.
We talk, usually daily. She's teaching me things that a lot of baby Christians don't get to learn, not like this, not this soon after being saved. She talked to me even before I (miraculously) got saved/Jesus saved me, and now...4 years later, The Lord has changed me mightily ("Know Jesus, Know Change"), and I'm learning from her.
God put us in each others' lives for a number of reasons, not all of which are apparent at this point. I need a friend, that's for sure. Verna's been a Christian since childhood, so she has decades of wisdom and experience to share with someone who will listen and hear what she's saying. We both get lonely. I get the sense that we're both kind of outsiders. I'm considered a "mental patient," but I have a "good family" behind me, etc., so now I'm living more comfortably than many (most?) other "mental patients," especially the ones with comparable backstories. Verna is a widow. Her children are very much adults. She and her husband bought a nice house together, and now she's surrounded by people who are still very much in the mainstream of society. Its The South, so there's still the formal showing of "respect" and such, but...hey, I live in the south, too; those "yes m'am" and "have a blessed day"-isms often don't amount to anything of real substance or value.
Please pray for Verna. She gets tired from it all. I encourage her to eat more, eat anything, but her appetite has been affected. There have been some (relatively minor) break-ins around her neighborhood. She's got a good alarm system and all, but that kinda stuff...can get to you.
Thanks.
