Getting to a doctor visit, as well as understanding and implementing medical advice, can be a challenge for seniors. Aging involves changes in health, physical ability, and medical risks. On average, older adults in the US tend to be in a healthcare setting about 17 days a year. Given how common (and often necessary) it is for seniors to interact with doctors, it is important to help seniors navigate doctor visits well.
Just a few weeks ago, a friend invited me to a worship service held at a house church, and I jumped at the chance to go. Like many of us, it was the first time I had been to a corporate church setting in forever, and by forever I mean since the fourteenth of last March. While I’m grateful for the existing online church platforms we have access to, and even more grateful for my pastors and their diligence to reach their congregations; I admit that I thought I might just cry getting to finally attend an in-person church service again.
Throughout the scriptures, Jesus proves to be an excellent storyteller Himself, using storytelling as His preferred medium of teaching. He utilized His words to reveal wisdom to those around Him, to convict the proud, and to uplift the hurting and broken. At EPAGA, we aim to do the same. We are asked to tell stories, just as Jesus did: our testaments of the miracles and transformation that He’s accomplished in our lives.
At EPAGA Home Care, we choose to believe that the actions that we set out to do each day matter and that we can change the narrative of our world for the better. The scriptures tell us that the world will know us by our fruit, by our faithfulness, and by our love. May our fruit serve as proof: proof of His faithfulness, His death and resurrection, and proof of His undying love as we care for those around us and follow in His footsteps.
In such an incredibly loud world, it can be easy for us to lose sight of one of the simplest things that God asks of us: our attention and our time. Like many, in this season I’ve greatly felt the absence of in-person church services, and look forward to the day when I can worship beside my friends and family again.
This scripture from the second chapter of the book of Acts provides us with a snapshot of what life in the early church looked like; a first-century illustration of the family of believers and the community in which they lived together. Undoubtedly the landscape of our world, and of the church looks wildly different from what it did then, but one common element remains the same: the communal habit of gathering together over a meal.
There’s a handful of aromas that will forever be held in association to the arrival of spring and the promise of summer in my mind: the pungent smell of blush-colored peonies that bloom in my aunt’s garden each year, the smell of fresh spread wood shavings at a livestock show, and the overwhelming fragrance of a million trees blooming around my hometown. These different fragrances are indicative of new life and beauty to me, and I can’t help but wonder if Paul thought the same when he penned the verse above in Corinthians.
