All the way......

Mom's doing pretty well. She still has bad days, bad "episodes". But she's hanging in there and endeavoring to stay focused on Christ and "end well" whatever that may come to mean.

Today, we got together to celebrate the Lord's Day by spending our time singing. Most of the time was spent on hymns we grew up with and have loved forever. Always, the teacher, Mom made sure we stopped to consider the words of each verse of every song. (When you've been singing them for as long as we have, your mind can be a million miles away while you get every word correct. You know that. You've DONE that. But not today.) We took turns sharing our favorites and singing them, re-reading the verses and discussing them, understanding them and applying them to our lives.

We ended up with All the Way, My Savior Leads Me....."for I know what e'er befalls me, Jesus doeth all things well. Though my weary steps may falter...." It's difficult just now not to apply each promise to where we all are, to where Mom is especially. This song is so appropriate to her life. She has allowed Him to lead her. Every step, every move, each struggle and trial she walked through because her Savior lead her that way. And He continues to lead. She walks hand in hand with Him drawing each day nearer and nearer to the uncertainties to come.

"Can I doubt His tender mercy, Who through life has been my guide? Heavenly peace, divinest comfort, here by faith in Him to dwell.....Perfect rest to me is promised in my Father's house above. When my spirit, clothed immortal, wings its flight to realms of day, the my song thro' endless ages, Jesus lead me all the way."

He doesn't just lead. He walks beside. He upholds. He comforts and whispers truths and promises to bolster us and calm our fears. Mama will never die. She will take one step on earthly terrain and the next on streets of gold. She will have reached her destination and begin unimaginable worship and communion with Him. "Gushing from the Rock before me, Lo! a spring of JOY I see

Meanwhile.......He "gives me grace for every trial, for I know what e'er befalls me, Jesus doeth all things well...." I love you, mama....