Here Is The First Of My Sharing Experiences As A Recently Divorced, Single Mom Well Over 20 Years Ago. This Experience Involves The Song, "Let Me Call You Sweetheart" That Was Connected To A Salvation At A Nurinsg Home.

During the day today this thought came to me. To share about an experience I had years ago and then I sensed a shift in what I will be sharing with you. To bring in my experiences I had as a single mom that was recently divorced over 20 years ago. Let's see how Holy Spirit directs this OK. I know the first experience will be about a song, "Let Me Call You Sweetheart." It is actually a song that was a part of a person giving their heart to the Lord at a nursing home. Imagine that will you. Let's listen to the song first to set the stage of this adventure.

This goes back many years. I would go to women's prayer at the church I attended and Mary and I befriended each other. She was an older woman in the church whose husband had Alzheimer's and was in a nursing home. I would go and visit Mary and sometimes I did chores to help her around the outside of her home. She loved the neighborhood cats and always fed them. Not inside but outside she did. I did the things to help Mary and sometimes she would insist that she wanted to bless me and she would give me money. I would bake and bring things over to her. We many times just would visit when I would come over to see her. I remember bringing her the church bulletins so she could keep up with what was happening at church.
After church on a Sunday I would go to her house and say let's go to the nursing home which was right down the street from her to see her husband. I would try to get her there for lunch time when he would be in the dining room and then we would wheel him to the solarium for a visit. She would just hold his hand and rub his arms and talk to him even though he was not responsive. That was my greatest joy to be able to take his dear woman to see her husband. She did not drive and even though the nursing home was right down the street from her it was not a walk she could do.
She would tell me stories of what the city and neighborhood was like years ago and she would tell me about the quarry area too. She shared good stories with me and I loved listening to her share the stories. She kept mentioning a local deli where she just loved the Reuben sandwiches they made and how she would like one. I asked her to give me directions on how to get there. I told her I would see if the person she always referred to was still there and if they still made the sandwiches. Well, one day I went and bought one for her. Simple things are acts of kindness that truly bless another far more than you could imagine. The time came when she could no longer live in her home and she then had to go to the same nursing home were her husband resided. I never understood this at all. A husband and wife lived at the same nursing home but they lived on different floors. I would still go and see her and try to take her upstairs to see her husband when I could. I would make surprise visits to see her at lunchtime too so I could then talk with the other people that sat at her dining table too. Sometimes I would bake and bring that to them as a treat. Mary was a prayer warrior and she always had her bible by her side and read it in her room. I remember I would share experiences I had with her and when it was a Holy Spirit experience she would always confirm it by these simple words she would say "OOH OOH." When that happened I knew it was God.
There were three ladies in her room (including her) Velma was not a person that talked she may have had dementia or something of that nature. I bought Mary a portable CD player and brought her worship music to listen too. I do not even remember how this happened but "Let Me Call You Sweetheart" I must have played the tape I had of it and it caused Velma to respond. So when I would go and visit, I would ask the other two ladies if we could all sing that song to Velma. That song must have been special to her and she would respond when we sang that to her. At the end all three of us would clap for her too. They say music can touch your heart and maybe that was the song that brought her peace for the moments we sang it.
There was that one day when I felt Holy Spirit say it was Velma's time to meet Jesus. Mary agreed and she had me take the lead. Velma was there in that moment so to speak and I lead her to Jesus. All three of us rejoiced in that day, we truly did. Well, one by one all three of those ladies went to be with Jesus. I miss Mary so very much. I know she will be waiting with open arms to greet me when I get to heaven. We shared heart secrets with each other and I am sure she is able to see things that will be fulfilled in my life from her heaven viewpoint.
I remember when her husband died. He was not responsive leading up to his death but I went to see him in his room and spoke to him since your hearing is still working they say at that point. I gently told him to ask forgiveness from Jesus if there was anything to ask forgiveness of and to invite Jesus into his heart. See, that is how Holy Spirit moves. He gives the gentle nudge and are you willing to follow His lead?
When you do it is a true blessing. Even when He calls you to step out in faith and you are a bit nervous doing it. He gets you through it. He had me step out in faith yesterday and I think I had a gentle conversation early in the morning as to why not but with each excuse I gave Holy Spirt countered the excuse. I stepped aside and followed through and I am very glad that I did. I do not want to miss a heartbeat of His wooing me, not at all.
I do not know how many stories like this from the past I will share with you but I am open to Holy Spirit direction and He will show me the experiences. Even as I write this now He is showing me to share on another day about the day of the miracle of groceries that came into our home. When I got divorced I truly felt my job at that point was to be home with the children when they got home from school to be there for them. I learned to live on a budget so to speak. I received alimony and child support together for a few years. When the alimony ended that is when I got a part-time job as a wedding/event planner. I enjoyed that job. You know what my favorite question to ask the couple that was booking the hall for their wedding? "Was he romantic when he proposed to you?" They would share with me their response and no matter what the response was it was romantic to that couple. You and I may have thought it may not have been very romantic but in their eyes it was. That is love isn't it? I probably should have jotted down the responses and composed a book of romantic proposals though the eyes of couples getting married. Where did that just come from? Oh yes, Holy Spirit nugget just for you.