RSVP Friday Delivery
Friday, May 15th, 2009On Fridays (unless I forget or they don’t need me), I help deliver groceries for RSVP. This morning Luke went with me as my helper. He had a choice of going with Robin and his brothers to church to set up for a yard sale for missions. But he said he didn’t feel like doing either. I didn’t push it but when it came time to go I asked again if he wanted to go with me. (If he didn’t I was going to have to cancel.) But he said he wanted to go and I was glad.
It was good having a helper. We only had two deliveries. One was to a lady that I had never met. She was a school teacher in California for 20+ years and came here 3 years ago to visit her sister. She got sick and never left. She was in a wheelchair having lost part of her left leg to diabetics. But she had a joyous smile and I enjoyed chatting with her. If I didn’t have another delivery and Luke didn’t have to go school, I might have stayed all morning and talked with her.
In fact as I am writing, I am remembering that she had called the home repair department with RSVP to see if someone could install a ceiling fan and wasn’t sure if they could come. Maybe I will call her back and see if she got that done. If not today, perhaps I can swing by tomorrow after Luke’s last soccer game.
I did learn some sad news this morning. One of the men we deliver to regularly died. His name was Vern Ewing (pictured here). I haven’t seen his obit in the paper yet but he died Sunday. His family was a long time member of the community and his family homestead is a historic site.
Mr. Ewing was a nice man and I enjoyed getting to know him the half a dozen times I have delivered to he and his wife. (Dick, another deliverer, usually took Mr. Ewing because he considered him a friend.) Mr. Ewing is the 2nd gentleman to whom I have delivered groceries that I know of that has died. Sad to think of these nice people passing away. Makes me think more about taking time to listen to them and be a blessing to them as I deliver.
