I YODEL

I YODEL

Monday, January 21, 2019

James 1:22-27  But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed. If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain. Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

  The day of my husband’s funeral, I wrote a poem, which ends: “… and gives us work to do.” The first weeks after his funeral were busy, hard weeks. I then went on a medical mission, but when I returned I found myself living in a new community with time on my hands.

  I started making an effort to meet lonely little old ladies who needed someone. I called, visited and took them places. I planted a small garden behind my apartment and shared the fruits, vegetables and flowers with them. One day my ten year old grandson wanted to go somewhere and I told him I had to go see one of my little olds ladies. He said “Little old lady who?” I told him it sounded like he was yodeling. So now when people ask what I’ve been doing, I just say “I’ve been yodeling.”

Leslie Nivens