----Don't Doubt God's Goodness ~~

--"When Jesus then saw His mother, and the disciple whom He loved standing nearby, He said to His mother, "Woman, behold your son! Then He said to
the disciple, "Behold, your mother!" From that hour the disciple took her into his own household."
----[John 19:26-27/ NASB] --

---MY mother, Dorothy Walker, is ninety-eight years old and living in a nursing home near our house. She has had an interesting and challenging life. Shortly after World War II, she met and married a Colorado cowboy, Al Walker. The cowboy became a Baptist minister and my parents spent eight years as missionaries and teachers in the Philippines.
When my father was forty-six years old, he died suddenly from a heart attack. Our family retuned from the Philippines to my mother's hometown in Georgia. Mother became an elementary-school teacher, struggling to raise my sister and me. Now, years later, we are faithfully trying to support our mother.

Mother is confined to her bed in a nursing home due to physical health and hip replacement surgery. She cannot walk she is deaf and often confused, and dementia is encroaching. But through it all she is gentle, sweet, and cooperative. Life has a way of "reversing roles" between generation to generation. And I am trying to adapt to my new role.

This scenario is so true for most families, and it takes courage, faith, and strength to persevere. Jesus experienced this, too. On the day of His crucifixion at age thirty-three, Jesus asked the apostle John to take care of His mother. This was His final concern.

One of my mentors used to say that the challenge of adulthood is "adapting to life amid the inevitability of decline." He is correct. However, the journey is fulfilling and well worth the cost!
Press on brothers and sisters, we're almost Home. "Come, Lord Jesus, Come!"

--Guideposts/SW~