From meals to community

I, Cecil, have been amazed at my wife's ability to connect with women in our neighborhood and especially to our neighbor next door. The woman next door is named Anita and she does not have any grandchildren, her son is Beau and he's about 26 years old. Tracy made the first move with baking some cookies and walking them over.  Then for St. Patrick's Day Anita brought over some home baked cupcakes.  We then invited her family over for lunch a few weeks later, then she brought over Easter Baskets for the boys.  Recently Tracy made some sticky Rice and gave it to Anita--the coolest part was that Anita came outside in the backyard and our kitchen window is so close to her house all Tracy needs to do is open it up and she's only about 10 meters from Anita's back porch.  I am so blessed for my wife's ministry of building relationships with the women and mothers around us.  We went out to run a few errands and Tracy knew two woman walking around our busy street, we actually had a short conversation with them as we were in the car. And when we were in the mall Tracy saw a woman who lives down the block, she was actually one of the first moms Tracy met.  I guess you can say that we are in the transition from "survival mode" to creating a sense of home and peace wherein we can invite people into our lives, as they invite us into there's...and perhaps as we live with a missional mindset and incarnationally, we would have an opportunity to invite our friends into a vibrant relationship with Jesus.
Cec