The death of visitors always causes you to reflect. Did we
do all that we could have done? Did they experience the love of God through
what we did do for them? Where are they now? It reminds us how fragile some our visitors’
lives are and how important it is that they are made to feel welcome and at
home.
We have a picture painted for us in our Step up, drop in
space- it has many worn and lost faces – young old, black white with the title
‘ Welcome Home’ . When I look at it each morning it reminds me why I am doing
what I am doing. Whether our visitors’ find a relationship with God for themselves is not always certain but as long as they find home – a
place where they feel they are welcomed, accepted, valued and safe then they
are already half way on the journey.
If your experience has taught you,
that no one can be trusted; how do learn
to trust that not all fathers beat you or abuse you or let you down and that there
is a heavenly father who is perfect in His love for you and who is totally
trust worthy?
Part of
the answer lies somewhere in a comment made to me in an attempt to help some of
the sadness that I felt over the tragic end to these two visitors’ lives.
“ May be they saw enough of Jesus in us , that when they
meet Him face to face they will recognise Him and that will be enough for Him
to welcome them in.”
