Summer Stewardship

As we officially enter summer, it is natural to assume that most are out and about either enjoying the weather, relaxing at home, or on some long planned vacation. However, summertime can sometimes mask loneliness. Some of the elderly may have lost most of their friends and others may wish they were relaxing on some beach or hiking up some picturesque mountain trail, but they aren’t. Perhaps our job is to help these folks the best we can, which may simply mean an occasional visit. In our modern age of social media, we can easily get disconnected from others and wrapped up in ourselves. All we need to do to remind ourselves of this is to peruse some internet blogs or television shows to see how self absorbed many have become. We are called to be different. This summer let’s try to reach out to those who need some basic human contact.