THE LORD GAVE ME HANDS WITH NO ARTHRITIS

 

 

Dear friends, sharing this 5 minute video of an inspiring centenarian living her ordinary life, but with so much wisdom.

I am sure she has her fair share of set backs like we all have, and at her 100 years of age, she deals daily with her much bigger share of medication, ailments, aches, pains and doctor’s appointments….

• But she does not focus on what she no longer have, but on what she still has
• She speaks about making use of our talents to serve the Lord.
• She wakes up in the wee hours, as with most elderly who have difficulties with sleep, but she lives by the flow of the Spirit and finds a meaning and a purpose for those hours of wakefulness.
• She talks about not needing perfection, but what it means to be learning.
• She speaks about treasuring our loved ones before they leave us.   
• And she confidently & joyfully anticipates the glory that awaits her when the Lord takes her home, and her daily “keep going all the time”.

I have transcribed her wise words from the video so we can read and re-read, and be reminded always of the snippets of wisdom given to us as we travel each on our own journey….

(Video link at the bottom of this message.)

May we be blessed by her message.  And may the Lord bless this lady with her heart's desire.

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She started off in the video singing two lovely verses

“When we all get to heaven

what a day of rejoicing that will be.

When we all see Jesus

 we’ll sing and shout the victory!”

"I was born in Oct 1016 and I am a 100 years old now.

Living a meaningful life is different for everybody.  I am not a preacher, I couldn’t get up on a platform and give a message.  That isn’t my work.  The Lord gave me hands with no arthritis, so I do a lot of sewing.  I have been given a talent, and I make use of it.

I wake up early, between 2 and 5am, and I get up and start at the sewing machine, because I love it.

My mother was a very good seamstress, she made everything my sister and I wore. So I learnt mostly from my mother.  Not everything I made turned out right, but that’s the story of learning.  If everything went perfect, we wouldn’t really learn.

(….)

I will be 101 in October if the Lord keeps me here, otherwise I will be in glory.  My husband and I had two children, Eileen and Jeanie.   My Eileen, the Lord called her home in 2011.  Harvey my husband, had a massive heart attack and died April 10 of 1952.  He was 36.  He was  wonderful husband, I miss him even today.  There is something about touching someone that you are in love with…and that some kind of touch does not come from somebody else.

I don’t know when the Lord is going to call me home, so I keep going all the time.  

And the video ended with her singing another verse, and her simple prayer...

“Lord, when travelling days are over

not a sorrow not a sigh."

"God bless each one

we pray in your name

Amen!"