Visits by Video

Read a section from my book on Dementia today, about visitation.

“In order to belong, one needs to be missed if one isn’t there...Learning how to miss people requires that we know that they’re “there” in the first place. In order to know them, we need to visit them.”

It goes on to say that the term “visit” has its roots in the Latin “videre”, meaning “to see, notice, or observe” (and funnily enough also where we get our word video!). To visit someone is to see them.

I love visiting people. But sometimes I get nervous - mainly the thought that I might say or do something (or not say or do something!) that would make the other person feel awkward. But that is to be excpected! Jesus was no stranger to awkwardness. We humans are awkward creatures - often clumsy, not eloquent, with conversation that stumbles rather than flows. But thank God our lives are not scripted - because they are real. Within those unscripted moments, we can find something better than social “comfort” - we can find connection.

There is awesome in the awkward.

Gratefuls:
- Rebekah home safely from Emily’s wedding - and the joy they had celebrating together!
- The feeling of finishing off a deep clean!
- That we have a roof over our heads, somewhere to call home, food in the fridge
- The feeling of warm sun on your skin
- That God welcomes our questions, bends down to listen and answers them.
- KXC and the wonderful work they are doing in this city
- Way fewer fruit flies about today!!
- the unpredictability of conversation, that makes it far more exciting
- A really encouraging time of worship, prayer and catching up with Femke, Peter and Bertram.