Emphasis Preaching Journal

The family gathered for a reunion. As children and grandchildren gathered around her, Barbara shared that this year, had her mother lived, she would have turned 100 years old. Her mother died almost thirty years ago. She shared aspects of her mother's life that the younger members of the family had never known. Barbara's mother did not have much schooling; she completed what would have been the fourth grade before she began working in a factory to help support her family.