You are going to Care Facilities where you will meet many seniors. In Care Facilities, they call the seniors “residents”.

To relate to the residents in Care Facilities, let’s first know that these residents have experienced many losses, such as their homes, cars, independence, and sometimes spouses and families.

Some residents in memory care may struggle with remembering things, like how to brush their teeth, bathe, or get dressed by themselves.

Because these residents have many losses, something inside of them can get lost too. Isolation can cause the light inside of them to go dim, and they can forget who they are in Jesus. When we look at them in their eyes and tell them, “God loves you,” something wakes them up!

And here is something you may not expect it wakes something up in us too!

As I have once heard Rick Warren say:

“Some people think God is only smiling at them when they are doing spiritual things like going to a Care Facility, feeding the poor, praying, helping the sick, going to church, giving the tithe, or being generous. And yes, all these things are good, but what you may not realize is that God gets much pleasure in just watching you breathe. God gets pleasure in watching you be you. When you do something so typical of you, God says, “That’s my girl! or that’s my boy!”