Answering a Call

 

October 10

 

She is terminal. I must talk with her now in the hospital.

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 says I can do that.Later she recites the suggested prayer asking Jesus to be her Lord and Savior.

Over dinner my nephew tells me that ten years earlier he prayed by her bedside, “Lord don’t take her until she is yours.”

 ( The Lord honored his prayer and took his mother six weeks later.)

 

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