My Mother's Journals

My mother kept journals and now that she has been gone for fifteen years, there is nothing of hers that I cherish more. She was so faithful to write almost everyday for years. I tried several times to keep a journal but it just seemed that I wasn't as committed to it as my mother.

I picked up one this morning; opened it and a leaf fell out. The date was Monday, June 24th, 1991. Mother was 85 years old and this is what she wrote: " Another date I can remember only Lark remembered it first. We sat in the porch swing at my home one evening he asked me to go steady with him he said. Years after we were man and wife he asked me if I remembered the date or my promise. Then he said he did. It was June 24, 1924. So from that date until June 1, 1927, I didn't date another boy for he was the one for me. I wanted to finish school and get that diploma. Also, it was depression time and we had no money to begin a life together."

"Don’t let the excitement of being young cause you to forget about your Creator." Ecclesiastes 12:1a(TLB)

My mother never forgot about her Creator. Even in her 90's when there were Sunday's she couldn't make it to Sunday School and church, she would ask us or one of her friends to stop on the way to church and pick up her offering. She was always faithful to give her tithe whether she could be at church or not. And, my mother was a prayer warrior. She often posted about praying for this one or that one who needed prayer. Mother loved getting cards and was so faithful to send cards to those who had birthdays, or were ill or who had lost a loved one.

I wonder if we all kept journals how would they read? Would we remember things that happened many, many years ago as my mother had? Would our journals be filled with the blessings of life or would we post about how bad off we are?

One thing for sure, reading my mother's journals leaves no doubt in my mind where her treasures were laid up.

Although the bible tells us there are no marriages in Heaven, I still like to picture my mother and daddy swinging in a heavenly swing and talking about the good life they had on this earth.
However, as it is written:
“What no eye has seen,
what no ear has heard,
and what no human mind has conceived
the things God has prepared for those who love him" 1 Corinthians 2:9 (NIV)