100 Years

April 29 is my mother's birthday. She has been with the Lord now for 12 years [minus a month] and it seems but yesterday that she left us. Probably because I think of her every day.

100 years. A hundred years ago her parents were blessed with her arrival into their family. A hundred years ago God began the process of forming her into the woman she came to be. A hundred years ago she began her influence on the lives of many people. Her family was the chosen elite group to know her best, to love her best and to receive the inheritance of a life well-lived, a life of show 'n tell. That is, of showing and telling others about her Lord and Saviour, with her life, her words and her sweet, meek and quiet spirit.

My siblings and I are so very blessed to, 100 years later, have the memories and influence of this wonderful woman still in our lives.

Thank you, Mommy, for your life. Thank You, Lord, for the gift of her.