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By Khristina Lang
01/27/07
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We learn to read in elementary school. We spend our lives reading things, books, magazines, signs, maps, we are always reading. Some of us read all the time and some of us read only when it is necessary. Regardless of who we are or what we do, there is always something to read. Young or old, things may happen that change our lives and we can’t read for ourselves anymore. My 88-year-old grandmother has a 91-year-old gentleman friend who can’t see or hear very well and she has spent most of her time driving him around, visiting with him, reading to him. Now after a hypertensive stroke, it is difficult for my grandmother to read. It’s amazing the things we find ourselves doing when something changes in a family members life. I have found myself, on two occasions, reading to my grandmother. After her stroke, the doctor’s said to talk to her to stimulate her, I felt like reading would be a good way to keep her mind going. And asking questions would make her think about what I was reading. I found that I enjoy reading to someone who can’t. It’s a God thing. Not long ago, I had a conversation with one of our church ESL leaders and she said she volunteers at a local hospital and reads to the patients in the children’s wing. I remember thinking, that’s something I can do. God has used my grandmother’s stroke to show me that I can read. What an awesome ministry! It’s the little things that make a big impact on someone’s life. God is an awesome God!

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