HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY!
I love and miss you, sweet Mama…“Love is not a passion. It is the pulse of sacrifice”.
For seventy-eight years my mother taught me about genuine love and Motherhood. I watched her as she maneuvered life. She had an iron will, was strong and courageous, especially in her later years without Daddy. She faced life with grace each day accepting God’s Hand and timing. She had no fear of old age which is the assumption that we still have many years of life ahead of us. “The length of our days is seventy years or eighty, IF we have the strength; yet this span is but trouble and sorrow and passes quickly and then we fly away!” (Psalm 90:10) My mother flew away this past June and I miss her every day.
She learned to be “satisfied in the morning with His unfailing love. She did not sing for joy out loud but she was glad for every day.” And she still looked forward to any, or all, of us coming and visiting with her. She was a good listener and I can remember my high school friends coming home with me… to talk and be with her!
She was a wise. I was blessed daily by this precious 101-year-old Mother. She taught me, by example, “to number my days, to be deliberate with my heritage, to think generations and to see how short and quickly life passes. I am paying attention. So, you see, Mom…your job has been well done.
Thank you for leading the way, leaving a print for me to step into
and showing me the pulse of sacrificial love…
~Jackie Johnson - I am a former tribal missionary to the Kuna Indians on the Colombian border in Central America. Fluent in several languages, my husband and I currently pastor a Spanish-speaking church in Southern California. My passion is mentoring and equipping dedicated young women for life, marriage, motherhood, and beyond. I am the mother of two daughters and the grandmother of three Princesses and four young Knights.
