It was a February over twenty years ago that we'd taken stacks of homemade valentines to deliver to the elderly. Physically and mentally disabled, she sat in a wheelchair in the nursing home hallway and repeatedly sang the only words she could remember to a tune of her own.
"I love the Lord and the Lord loves me."
It's been a difficult winter for my friend's elderly mother. She's frail and weak and disoriented and confused.
She holds her daughter's hand, speaking words sweet and lovely, but forgets who she is or how to brush her teeth.
"How can that be?" My friend wonders.
The good person out of the good treasure of his heart produces good,
And I remember the lady in the wheelchair those many years ago, and how she sang love from her heart.
"Because brushing teeth takes work and thought, but love is from the heart." I tell my friend."
"The true nature of people's hearts can often be seen when they speak off-the-cuff, without reflection." ~ ESV Study Bible
