Walking stick
Walking stick
Mum finally decided that she needs a proper walking stick. She has been using an umbrella as her support since she felt her legs lacking in strength and needing such external forms of support. The umbrella has kind of "succumbed" under the constant pressure exerted, and that was when mum finally said, "Can we go buy a proper walking stick?"
Well, not that we are not keen to get a proper walking stick for mum when she needed it. In fact, many years ago when her limbs are not as strong, we had already suggested to her the idea that she might really need such aids. I guess using a walking stick is a stigma for older persons, and her responses on a few occasions when we raise the topic was an adamantly negative.
Her response then and now led me to think about outreach to older persons. Sometimes, we really have to give them time to reason and think through what we have suggested to them, or in the case of the Gospel, what we have preached to them. Simply by pushing the suggestions we rendered as good, but for them perhaps a stigma then, would just backfire. Yes, the need to preach the Gospel and their responses are urgent, but then we really need to exercise sensitivity and love, and trust that God holds everything in His hand and that He will use what we have offered to Him and softened and convict heart.
A simple instrument in the form of a walking stick has reminded me much ...
Mum finally decided that she needs a proper walking stick. She has been using an umbrella as her support since she felt her legs lacking in strength and needing such external forms of support. The umbrella has kind of "succumbed" under the constant pressure exerted, and that was when mum finally said, "Can we go buy a proper walking stick?"
Well, not that we are not keen to get a proper walking stick for mum when she needed it. In fact, many years ago when her limbs are not as strong, we had already suggested to her the idea that she might really need such aids. I guess using a walking stick is a stigma for older persons, and her responses on a few occasions when we raise the topic was an adamantly negative.
Her response then and now led me to think about outreach to older persons. Sometimes, we really have to give them time to reason and think through what we have suggested to them, or in the case of the Gospel, what we have preached to them. Simply by pushing the suggestions we rendered as good, but for them perhaps a stigma then, would just backfire. Yes, the need to preach the Gospel and their responses are urgent, but then we really need to exercise sensitivity and love, and trust that God holds everything in His hand and that He will use what we have offered to Him and softened and convict heart.
A simple instrument in the form of a walking stick has reminded me much ...
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