By Ed

A few months ago, I joined a Pickleball league in the city of Mission Viejo, in part to get some exercise but also to meet and connect with some new people in the community where Roxanne and I live. At the last session of the league, a woman approached me while I was on the court warming up and said, “I need to talk to you.” She mentioned she had coincidentally met some mutual friends of ours where she learned a little bit of our story about losing a child and was given a CD that Roxanne and I had recorded. She then began to share her own story of her 40-year-old daughter currently battling cancer. I could see we’d need more time to talk, so I asked if we could continue talking after the pickleball matches were over.

We did just that and were joined by her husband and two other pickleball players, both of whom also had children with serious medical issues. After everyone had a chance to share, I offered to pray. I was really elated afterward, and felt like the whole reason I joined the pickleball league was for such a time as this.

May the Lord continue to guide our paths to new opportunities in our communities to minister to those in need.