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By Eva Piscitell
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I did not tell my friend of my decision when I visited today, It would have been too difficult to try to explain to her why she shouldn’t be paying for something she wasn’t using. Instead we had a quiet visit, and she fell asleep as I began to read to her from the Psalms. As she slept, I looked down at the pages in her Bible and read the pencilled-in notations she had written next to several underlined verses that were so insightful and Spirit-filled, they could have been written by a Bible scholar; but, then again, they were. She had studied the word since entrusting her life to Jesus at 18, and she recently turned 90. As I continued to read, she awoke, and I commented on the notes she had written, and how they had impacted me. She raised an eyebrow and looked at me questioningly as I showed them to her. She didn’t recognize the handwriting, she said. Was I sure it was hers? I assured her it was and smiled at her, and she smiled back.
She “lost her words”, as she puts it, as the result of a stroke. It was very difficult for her at first, and she struggled fiercely to hold onto them; but as time went on, she became increasingly disconnected from many things she had once loved—and the word of God became one of those disconnections. Yet through it all, she never lost connection with the Living Word—Jesus.
As I stood up to walk her down to the dining room for lunch, I glanced under the nightstand and saw the telephone tucked away in its usual spot, almost hidden by the various items surrounding it. She had moved it from the top of the nightstand some time back, and I had chosen at the time not to ask her why, because I knew she would have laughed at such a foolish question. Of course, tucked underneath the nightstand was the obvious place for it to be located; anyone would see that. And for that reason, I decide not to take it with me when I leave. Though it is no longer a link to the outside world, it remains a connection to her world.
My thoughts are suddenly interrupted as she becomes agitated that she can’t find the right words to ask me where we are going. I help her find them and calmly remind her I am walking her to lunch. The momentary reconnection assures her. I’m glad we’ve been friends long enough for me to be able to do that.
As I hug her goodbye, I silently thank God that though her landline may be disconnected, His beloved child, my friend, is forever connected to Him. And I rejoice for her as I leave with the words she undoubtedly has underlined in her Bible suddenly filling my spirit: “And lo, I am with you alway.” Matthew 28:20
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However a change of tense in your last two paras does blur the clarity a little.
Please stay in the same tense throughout the story. I also have trouble with this. Sometimes it helps just to review verb endings.