My Best Experience Yet

On December 8, 2015 Josh, AJ, and I volunteered again for Moveable Feast, but today was different for me than past delivery experiences. As we were delivering food today, it hit me a lot harder than it usually does. The people we deliver for cannot even leave their houses for the most part, and on a day as nice as today was (60 degrees) I hate to think how miserable they must be sitting inside. Knowing how bad I feel for the people we deliver the food to, I cannot imagine the pain the people taking care of them must feel every day.




I have never seen kids at a house when I have delivered food in the past, but today we were on a different route than I have been on before, and I saw quite a few. The first house, the little girl that ran to the door behind her Mom said "Wow, there's two people today!" (AJ and I took the food to the door). It made me realize that some kids are growing up watching a loved one dying and not being able to really do anything but help out around the house and open the door for the people delivering food each day. For these kids, it is normal to be surrounded by sickness and pain and that absolutely breaks my heart; but at the same time it makes me so happy that they are there with their sick family member, making their day a little brighter and giving their life more meaning.
I also had a harsh reminder today of what the people we are delivering food to are going through. There was one lady on our route that we had been told a few weeks ago not to be surprised if we went one day and she had passed away. Apparently that day was not too long ago. We were looking at the directions to the houses today, and hers had been removed from the list.


We have not been volunteering there long, but a client has already died in that short time. It is so sad to remember how sick these clients really are, but it made me want to spend even more time talking to the ones who are still alive. My experience at Moveable Feast on this trip made me that much more thankful for the life I have been blessed with. This realization came at a time when I am incredibly stressed out and unhappy, and it made me stop and think about how good I have it, and how much worse it could be.