Share the Good News
by Janet Smith
by Janet Smith
At SPPC we take our turn to visit the Saanich Peninsula
Hospital to lead a 30-minute service for the residents in palliative care wing.
Usually this falls on the 4th Sunday of the odd
numbered months, January, March and so on but a few weeks back the secretary
called me to let me know that we had also been assigned Sunday 23rd
December! To my shame, my immediate reaction was somewhat selfish to say the
Least. Oh, what a nuisance, I thought, right now when I have so much to do.
As I announced this to others, I felt the same sort of
reaction. Why us? It’s not our turn.
Anyhow, a goodly number of our congregation turned out and helped gather residents from their rooms and helped them to the hospital Chapel and together we all enjoyed singing Christmas carols. Rev. Irwin gave a short Christmas message and when the service ended, we helped everyone back to their rooms.
This took all of one and a half hours out of my Christmas
preparation, so little time but such a great blessing for those who attended,
possibly for some folks, we may have been the only visitors they saw over the
Christmas season. Not only was it a time of blessing for the residents but I
hope it was also a blessing for those of our congregation that came out to
share that time together.
How selfish can we be, when all we think about is what we
want and need, yet when we give of ourselves to others, how best we are.
Christmas came, everything fell into place and I was able to
enjoy celebrating Christ’s birth with my family in the warmth and comfort of my
home unlike so many.
Christmas is a time for sharing the love, hope, peace and joy
that Christ came to bring each one of us, I hope we were able to do that for
these folks at the S.P.H. for that short time on 23 December 2018.
Go Tell it on the
mountains!
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