Someone cares

I love John Gowans' poems; they inspire, challenge and encourage me in life's journey. Here is one of his beautiful ones that I find myself singing it when I came home after visiting Peacehaven Nursing Home this morning. We spent the time after chapel service, visiting the folk who enjoy companionship. Visiting the sick, the lonely and those in need is our Christian duty.

"Do you sometimes feel that no one truly knows you,
    And that no one understands or really cares?
Through His people, God Himself is close beside you,
   And through them He plans to answer all your prayers.

Someone cares, someone cares,
Someone knows your deepest need, and your burden   shares;
Someone cares, someone cares,
God Himself will hear the whisper of your prayers.

Ours is not a distant God, remote, unfeeling,
   Who is careless of our loneliness and pain,
Through the ministry of men He gives His healing,
   In their dedicated hands brings hope again."

Take time to visit someone, you may be the answer to someone's prayer. People are living longer, and increasingly, spending their last years alone. One the whole we are greeted with welcoming smiles. They know someone cares enough to spend time to chat with them.