The Kindness of Strangers

In an earlier post, I mentioned how Ginny seems to draw people to her. This characteristic has not changed. She grabs a lot of attention still.  When we go to the grocery store, I spend half my time thanking people for the compliments they give Ginny. If I need to pick up prescriptions, there are two young ladies who work the counter who will stop what they are doing to visit with her. We even have a nurse who loves and adores Ginny so much that she will come by to visit her, ever briefly, even if she is tending to other patients. (She has readily agreed to babysit if we need her so this has worked out nicely.)

When I wrote about this before, I mentioned that a woman came up to us after Mass one Saturday evening and said she wanted to make an afghan for Ginny. We thanked her, but hadn't seen her since.  Because of Chris's work schedule we are not consistent with the times we go to Mass. If he has the weekend off (or at least Sunday) we go to Mass on Sunday morning. When he does work on the weekend, we go to the Cathedral (not our parish) for Mass on Sunday since it is a later Mass.  (Technically we could go on Saturday at our local parish, but I'm not a fan so....) It is only when Chris is on overnight shifts that we go to Mass on Saturday evenings.

Well, this past Saturday, the kind woman approached us with a bag in hand to give us the afghan she made. She explained that she had been looking for us. We felt bad because it had been a month since we had been at a Saturday Mass and that time we were in the cry room. We told her that Chris's work schedule was such that we didn't go to the same Mass times regularly.  She seemed to understand.

Later, we opened the bag and looked at the afghan! It is quite beautiful! I still can't believe that a stranger would approach us and do something so wonderful for Ginny. What a blessed gift!