Instrument of the Heart

I don’t know the woman’s name. She’s fairly new at Morningside Assisted Living, an elderly woman whose family must have decided she needed to not live on her own anymore. She seems fairly active, always out and about the facility, no walker or cane needed. In her short time there, she has taken an apparent aversion to me. I’ve been going to Morningside twice a month for about twenty years, always with my pastor, to offer a morning of music and devotions. I play songs on the piano to draw folks in, then we sing hymns, taking lots of requests for the ones they know best. Pastor Mike prays and reads Scripture. We welcome all residents to join us. Following our program a month ago the woman told us she came from a Church of Christ background, and expressed her...