Macy turned two May 10! On May 8, my mom turned eighty-five. A few days earlier, I sat on the front porch with Meemaw around 5:00 am and watched the world wake up. This is her habit every morning as she and my dad drink a cup of coffee together.
Our Heavenly Father takes great joy in both these birthday girls. He knows Macy and He knew Barbara when she was two… being raised by a single mom, my Nannie. While a young girl, a kind family took my mom to church where she learned about Jesus. God has given her a loving husband, four children, ten grandchildren, and seven great grandchildren.
As we sat in the cool of the morning, talking, laughing, and counting our blessings, Meemaw shared that her only birthday request was to have a celebration meal at her house with a widow who had a birthday the same week. This friend is seven years younger than my mom and has endured many difficulties in life. She has recently been diagnosed with cancer and has a poor prognosis. Of course my dad was in full agreement to make the birthday wish happen.
God’s desire is for older men and women to be examples to the younger. My mom has lived this way all her life. I pray that all the girls in our family will walk in her steps. Perhaps in eighty-three years Macy will sit on a front porch with one of her children and welcome the morning.
“A wife of noble character who can find? She is worth far more than rubies. Her husband has full confidence in her and lacks nothing in value… She opens her arms to the poor and extends her hands to the needy… She is clothed with strength and dignity; she can laugh at the days to come. She speaks with wisdom, and faithful instruction is on her tongue… Her children arise and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her. ‘Many women do noble things, but you surpass them all.’ Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting; but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.” Proverbs 31:10, 11, 20, 25, 26, 28, 29, 30