You know I would venture to guess that the category of female widows numerical wise is greater than widowers in our country. The Census Bureau reports there are more than 13 million widows in the USA and of them, over 11 million of them are women that are widows. Astounding do you agree. So, why when our government had the great opportunity to bless these widows that are more than likely on Social Security possibly or some sort not being taken care of? Baffles me, it truly does. There is no longer a male spouse able to bring in an income to them to take care of them since they are deceased so why are we not taking care of them. Don't you think they should be entitled to care and being looked out for. That could have paved the way some if they would have honored a promise spoken forth of no tax on Social Security. God is watching all of this. I saw the other day 2 widows within my neighborhood. I baked a small cherry pie for one and with the left over pie crust dough I also made a smaller pie filled with cherry pie filling supplemented with fresh blueberries. These are not blood relatives of mine but just kindly, godly neighbors of mine. It is good to bless the widows and for some reason I enjoy blessing them. I get nothing out of doing this, just the joy of following Holy Spirit lead when He prompts me to bake or even cook something at times and drop it off to them.
Just yesterday, I went to a local Farmers Market in town held at a church. Oh my goodness, the very 1st vendor was selling 2 types of sourdough bread. Believe it or not the church pastor bakes the bread and all proceeds go to their youth program. It was so delicious when I cut a piece that morning to have with an Amish brown egg I made that I cut off 2 sections and brought it to my 1 neighbor that has a bible study. I said you have to try this bread. She said she had some blackberry preserves she thought would go good with it. This was quality sourdough bread freshly baked by a pastor. I forgot to ask the lady if the pastor is a female or male pastor, silly me does that really matter in the scheme of things. This was worth every bit of $5.00 a loaf and I asked if it was okay to leave $1.00 tip also for the youth ministry and I did.
Let me toss out another though on this subject if I may. So, if a woman is divorced from their husband and that same husband re-marries someone. Could that 1st wife be placed in the orphan category. Something to ponder on.

