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Good News from Mighty Rivers
By Erikia Davis
Mother’s Day was a jewel. Four husbands took part in a quick game of
“The Price Is Right” by trying to guess the price of several items
from a local grocery store. None got the price of the peanut butter,
spaghetti, Cream of Wheat, or Great Northern Beans, but all four got
the main one—“Who can find a virtuous woman, for her price is...”
Jamie McClellan, Dick Wehrenberg, Timmy Gibson, and Bryan Klein held
up the answer for all to see—“her price is far above rubies.”
These men then handed out gifts to the 72 mothers in attendance.
Speaking of mothers, one of the most famous was Mother Teresa. She
was an 18 year old Yugoslavian girl named Agnes Bojaxhiu (boy-AX-ee-oo)
when she left home to become a nun. Over the next 20 years, she
taught middle-class high school students, and was often described by
her colleagues as “average.”
She felt God calling her in 1946 to serve India’s poor. She started
with nothing—no shelter or finances. She picked up a woman dying in
the gutter who had been partially eaten by rats and brought her to
the hospital, badgering reluctant doctors until they finally treated
the woman.
Since then, hundreds of thousands have been rescued, and facilities
for orphans, lepers, and AIDS patients have been created worldwide.
She became known as Mother Teresa, a household name and the living
image of Christian servanthood.
Mother Teresa was not a rising star in the church; she had no
inclination toward a power position in the hierarchy. She was just a
humble, average person whom God chose to have a miraculous impact on
the world.
Even in death, she was humble and virtually unnoticed. There wasn’t
a lot of coverage because she went home to Heaven on a very abnormal
news day. She died Sept. 5, 1997. Her death was reported the next
day, September 6, but it was overshadowed by the continuous coverage
of Princess Diana’s funeral.
Heaven knows how to recognize its own, so those who serve faithfully
wherever God has put them will never be obscure to Him.
We hope everyone had a wonderful Mother’s Day, but we know for those
who lost loved ones recently, like members of our congregation—the
children of Doris Rose and Glenna Niestrath—that it was a very hard
day.
But they are rejoicing in Heaven.
Brock Moore gave the Valedictorian Speech at Meridian’s graduation
last Saturday. You can read it by going to our website,
mightyrivers.org.
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