Chapter 19: On the Street Where You Live
You may live on a street with a pretty name like Morning Glory Drive or on a numbered street like 2700 East. Houses line the street where you live, and to one of them you have the key and call it home. Wherever home is, the people who live in nearby homes are your neighbors. A serious illness came to a long-time neighbor who lived on Evergreen Avenue. Symptom after symptom debilitated this once vibrant man until a walker, then a wheelchair, had to be lifted in and out of the car every time he went anywhere. The caregiver had suffered a broken back a few years previously, which made all the lifting even more difficult. As the nearby neighbors watched, they seemed to appear at just the right moments to take an arm, lift a wheelchair, or carry groceries into the house. The caregiver commenting on all the help they were receiving said: “I think the Lord lives on Evergreen Avenue, directing others to help us....