I would like to tribute this blog to my dear mother. It was in the last three years of her life that she gave the most to me. My mom learned in 2005 that she had lung cancer and she requested me to help her. I made a promise to her that I would be there all the way to the end. I didn't know at the time that God was using me as an instrument to bring someone I love to His fold. My mom was seventy-three years old at the time. I went to chemotheraphy with her three times a week and radiation twice a week or a year. I would take my bible with me and in the difficult moments I would pray to God on her
behalf.
As time drew near, I told her that there were some things she needed to know about God that she didn't know. She expressed with tears that if there was something she needed to know she wanted to know, because she did not want to be lost. I set up a bible study with her right then and there. When she was released from the hospital we began our study, in two weeks she obeyed the gospel of Christ. Praise the Lord! Never, Never Give Up! Trust God all the way,for when you think it is bad, it is God at work to shew forth his wonderful works.
When she found out that she had lung cancer, she said God was going to use it to glorify himself. I did not understand it at the time, but God did. My last night with my mom, I was walking around her bed and she said, "Jean, it's worse than you think", I brushed it off lightly. She asked, "How do I look?" She didn't have any hair and I said "You look fine". She began to give me the details of how she wanted her funeral arranged, where to find everything, and that she wanted it to be held at Lake Harbour Drive Church of Christ. Through Christ all of her wishes were carried out and God was magnified! Many that came to the funeral had never heard of the Church of Christ or had never been in the building of a Church of Christ.
I thank my mother for her courage to look at the truth of God's word and change from error to the truth. I came to her hospital room right after she obeyed the gospel and she was reading her bible and she said, "What an awesome God!" I thank my mom for having the courage to face death and I thank God for the joy that was in her at the end. They have been gifts to me that I have cherished greatly these past few years. Thank you Dear Motherdear! Thank God!
