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Happening ... in the Local Church
Recycling has become so widespread that it’s hard to remember a time when we didn’t bundle up our papers, flatten our cans and send our wornout clothing to the St. Vincent de Paul Society.
Laudable as all that is, however, we may be missing the greatest opportunity of all if we don’t “recycle” our lives in some form of volunteer activity.
About five years ago, the part-time chaplain at St. Vincent’s Hospital in Randolph County recruited two former social workers to visit patients on the days he was not present. Both of us are still at it; neither of us can imagine quitting. Why? Because we know we get at least as much from those visits as do the patients.
If you can’t see yourself talking to 15 or 20 perfect strangers about their hopes and fears every week, how about distributing food for Second Harvest? Or helping with the mountain of paperwork that every school, every social agency creates? Or becoming a Big Brother to some child who needs one? Or offering a few hours to your pastor occasionally? Or ...?
All of us who are in or near the “senior” portion of our lives have a vast store of “recyclable” experience that we can — with a little thought — make available to those of God’s people who need it.
Need one more reason to volunteer? Read Matthew 25:31-46.
This guest editorial was written by Elizabeth L. Herold, a parishioner of St. Joseph, Winchester.