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b'I was already asleep when my grandpa called, asking for help with my grandma\\u2019s diaper. I don\\u2019t feel especially loving when sleep-deprived, but the quiet stirring of God\\u2019s Spirit within me assured me what the next step was. I slipped on a sweater and puddle boots and stumbled down the darkened dirt road between our house and their snug log home.\\nWith barely open eyes, I pushed into Grammy\\u2019s room. She weighed only ninety pounds at that time, but it\\u2019s hard to lift someone when they don\\u2019t have strength to help.\\nMy cousin and I got Grammy cleaned up and settled in bed. Her osteoporosis was so bad we had to prop the pillows and blankets around her twisted form to make her comfy. There was no way for her to lie straight.\\nThe next night they didn\\u2019t need me. Grammy didn\\u2019t wake from her deep and quiet slumber. She didn\\u2019t wake the next night either. Only once after that late night did she stir, when I stopped by and brushed her white hair off her forehead to give her a kiss and say, \\xe2\\u20ac\\u0153I love you.\\xe2\\u20ac\\x9d She blinked weary eyes at me and said, \\xe2\\u20ac\\u0153I love you too, Honey Girl.\\xe2\\u20ac\\x9d She died the next morning.\\nWaking to help my grandma when she was in need made me so grumpy at the time. Yet the still, small voice of God\\u2019s Spirit urged me on, and so I went. As I walk by her house today and miss her\\u2014miss having tea from real china cups at her one hundred-year-old oak table and hearing her urge me to take just one more cookie\\u2014what brings me the most joy is knowing our last exchange was one oflove.\\nThat late night, it was the Holy Spirit who urged and sustained my reluctant spirit onward. While it was tempting to ignore His call to show love to Grammy, I followed His gentle leading. When we obey\\u2014walking in the love of Christ by the power of the Holy Spirit\\u2014we find true joy. Grammy taught me that. \\u2022 Kristen Joy Wilks\\n\\u2022 How does the truth of the good news of Jesus help us to show love? How can loving others show Christ\\u2019s love for us? \\n\\u2022 Have you ever felt a prompting from the Holy Spirit to show God\\u2019s love to someone? Reread today\\u2019s Bible passage. How can you know when a prompting is from the Holy Spirit? \\nWe love each other because he [Jesus] loved us first. 1 John 4:19 (NLT)\\n\\xa0\\nRead Verses:\\n1 John 3:23-4:3, 7-11'