Answering a Call

October 10

She is terminal. I must talk with her now.
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 evening he eldest son 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)