Live - Don't Lose Heart
On Tuesday, 20 November, I sat in waiting room at Stokes Regional Eye Center reading an article by Joni Erickson. As I read the article, memories of my mother flooded my mind and soul. As I read 2 Corinthians 4:16-18, I could see my mother serving others and using her final days searching for ways to help her grandchildren. She always told us, "Everyday God gives me has a purpose, so I search for that purpose." She had a reason to live, because God gave her new mornings, and she filled those days with purpose. You see, it was my mother's birthday. It would have been her 86th birthday, but she died young. At 59, her body gave up the fight against scleroderma and heart problems in January 1991, but she never, never complained. She lived! She lived with purpose. In February 1971, she went to Houston, Texas for open heart surgery. Leaving us home, six children, Mama and Daddy boarded a plane in Columbia, SC for the trip to Housto...