Answering a Call

She is terminal. I'm prompted to talk with her now in her hospital room.
My sister listens intently but bristles when I read, “the righteous fear God.”
“I always had a problem with needing to fear God,” she protests. I say, “Think of fear as respect.” (Where did that come from?) She recites the suggested prayer asking Jesus to be her Lord and Savior.

Over dinner that night my nephew tells me that ten years earlier he prayed by her bedside, “Lord don’t take my Mom until she is yours.”
(The Lord honored his prayer and took his mother six weeks after my visit.)

“In all your ways acknowledge Him and He will direct your paths.” (Proverbs 3:6)