Tuesday—Sister Dorothy Jean 

Happy Tuesday! I hope you have had a great start to your week. Yesterday I had the privileged getting to go to Dorothy Jean’s house to meet with a Bible Study group. Dorothy Jean is 90 and is simply what I want to be when I grow up. When you are at her house, you get peach tea, snacks, and in short, you just feel like you are home. She has a way about her that is welcoming and warm to all who come to her door. She told me that she has a hard time getting groceries, but she is so blessed by all the folks who just bring things to her. “So many people are so good to me.” And it no wonder. I’m sure they count it as a blessing to be able to do for her. 


1 John 4:12, "No one has ever seen God. But if we love each other, God lives in us, and his love is brought to full expression in us."

It makes me wonder how welcoming am I? Do I show the love of Jesus that strongly to everyone I come in to contact with that his love is show in the full expression in me? Because if people are not drawn to us, how can they want what we have? How can we share the Good News with people who we aren’t kind to or to whom we don’t offer a glass of peach tea?  

“Stay on good terms with each other, held together by love. Be ready with a meal or a bed when it’s needed. Why, some have extended hospitality to angels without ever knowing it! Regard prisoners as if you were in prison with them. Look on victims of abuse as if what happened to them had happened to you.” ‭‭Hebrews‬ ‭13:1-3‬ ‭MSG‬‬

When I was telling the story of our hospital and the lives of the Tarahumara to the Bible Study group, Dorothy Jean’s eyes were huge. Huge and teary. She asked so many questions about the children. It was so very clear to me that she was “living” their rough lives with them—just like as if it was happening to her. She truly understands the full extent of hospitality in these first 3 verses of Hebrews 13. Not just to give some food, but to fully give the empathy. She lives it. Yep, that’s who I want to be when I grow up—I want to get it, too. 

Today, pray with me. Dear Father God, author of love and life, please show us one more way that we can extend hospitality toward a stranger. One more way that Your love might be fully expressed through us and please dear Lord, open our eyes and our hearts to those opportunities. 

Love you precious friend,

Pam. 



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