Jenny's Story
Tonight at the Hospice Volunteer Dinner, I sat at a table with Jenny who told us this story. When she was a girl, her mom was always baking wonderful things and most often, she was giving lots of her baked goods away. She especially remembered one day when she came home from school and the house was filled with the aroma of baked bread. She was so hungry! Her mom put a loaf of bread in a brown paper bag and sent her with it to a neighbor some little distance away. While Jenny walked to her destination, she was smelling the wonderful aroma of the fresh bread, and she was so hungry. She picked a little hole in the bottom of the crust of the bread, and little by little she picked out bread from inside the loaf and ate it. When she delivered the bread to the family, it looked fine, but when they sliced into it, it was hollow! Everything was fine that night when she got home again but the next day when she came home from school, her mom met her with a stern look. She'd found out about the hollow loaf of bread and she hadn't baked a hollow loaf of bread. Things weren't so fine for her that night, but she still thinks it was too much to ask a hungry child just home from school to deliver a fresh loaf of homemade bread to a neighbor some distance away.
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at 4/26/2006 5:58:23 AM- Yes, Brenda, I'm supposed to be a hospice volunteer. I really haven't done much in the last couple of years but I'm still on their roster. I do some of the behind the scenes help now but not a lot. I'm not ready to visit with dying patients or families. I hope to help more with the Garden of Life which Hospice volunteers have at the hospital, and I'll be helping with a mailing which will be prepared next week.
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