Saturday, August 21, 2010

It was a strange sort of day.  We started it by helping an elderly man find his wife and home.  He wondered up to the church this morning looking very lost and having a vacant sort of stare.  His face was gaunt and he looked like the grim reaper in jeans and plaid.  But as we tried to converse he began to look more human to me and it soon dawned on us that he must have Alzheimers and wondered from home, where ever home was!???
We tried to pull bits of information from him but not much made sense.  We asked him if he lived with anyone and he said yes, a lady. " Is she your friend', we asked?   He replied,"She's my wife"!
Well finally Bob was able to decode some of his ramblings, enough to get his name and, with the help of Dave Noll, looked  up the name in the phone book and called his home.  His worried wife answered and said she had the police searching for him for quite a while.  In minutes, almost seconds, there were 3 police cars and a very concerned wife in our parking lot!
The man looked a little worried that so many police cars pulled in, but they reassured him that he was okay and the reunited couple went home.
The rest of the day was pleasant, enjoying lots of good fellowship both in Harrisburg and in the Poconos.
I hope your week is a pleasant one full of the Lord's will for you!

1 comment:

  1. Pretty nice writing! Sounds like God directed the man to the church for help.

    So nice to see the pictures of all the loved ones.

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