Meals Ministry

Recently I signed up for a new ministry. I've done a couple different ministries before and although I did enjoy them, they just didn't seem like the right fit for me. Well, I was looking over the available listings at church one day and saw Meals Ministries. I thought "I love spoiling people with food! I'll be great at this!" And I signed up. Well, I got my first opportunity to help through an email I received over the weekend. A woman just lost her husband on New Year's Day to cancer. How devastating to go through something like that, especially at the start of the New Year when everything is supposed to begin, not end. Well, I felt really compelled to bring her a meal but Monday was the only night I was available to do so. I wrote to our team leader and told them that I was available and was very surprised to learn that all the other days had been filled except for Monday, the only day I was available.
How fantastic is that? I was meant to bring her a meal that night! So Jason and the boys went with me and we took her some lasagna, salad, french bread, and homemade (by my very own little guys here) chocolate chip cookies. Seb took the food in with me. She invited us inside and hugged me and shook Seb's hand. She was very sweet. She thanked us for the food and said what a relief it was not to have to worry about cooking for herself but my heart just ached for her when she told me that it was going to be an adjustment to learn to cook just for one now. I told her we'd be praying for and we said goodbye and left her. The entire drive home my eyes were watering, thinking about her.
Tonight when we sat down to pray over our own dinner Seb said a blessing and asked God to just bless this sweet woman and be with her during this difficult time. It was a perfect prayer and I'm so thankful for sweet little God guys who understand what's really important and who slow down with me long enough to reach out to help someone else in their time of need. I'm so glad that I joined this ministry. It's not always going to be easy, I know that, but it's very rewarding and I'm so touched and humbled to be part of it.