Friendship Garden of Life

We meet our friends in such a variety of ways. I met this couple in a little church and yet they only lived a few short miles away from me.

They had been attending a little country church and it was about to go under when Lee took it under his wing and worked diligently for the next several years , all by himself just to save the little church . Sometimes there would only be a handful of us in attendance , but he never let it get him down. They were the kind of people who would give you the shirts off of their backs if you needed them. I have seen them take their own money and buy boxes of food for young families at Christmas and would never let anybody go hungry if they knew of anybody in need, or if anybody needed wood for their stoves he would be the first one out in the woods cutting the wood and taking it to them. He was tireless in his efforts of love - until one day he had a stroke- and his world ceased to exist as he knew it. It took a long hard battle for him just to survive. I knew he would because he knew how much his wife of 50 years needed him, but when I went to visit them that Christmas I was totally shocked . He was still Lee, but something was missing. He was just a little , quiet shell of himself and it absolutely broke my heart. No more laughter and smiles , no more twinkly eyes - only a quiet , whipped little man who was so frail. It was so sad - life is so precious and so fragile. We need to remember to be thankful for our health everyday .

I had made them tee shirts too. The pink one for her said "Angels Don't Worry - They Believe" and his said "I was going to waste but the Lord recycled Me.