Christina, my eldest daughter and my beautiful Mom
HAPPY 101st BIRTHDAY, MOM!
“Love is not a passion. It is the pulse of sacrifice”.
For seventy-six years you have taught me about genuine love and Motherhood. January 2nd, you turned 101!! I have watched you and still watch you, as you maneuver life. You are strong and courageous, especially in these latter years without Daddy. You face life with grace each day with acceptance of God’s Hand and timing. You have no fear of old age which is the assumption that we still have many years of life ahead of us. “The length of our days is seventy years or eighty, IF we have the strength; yet this span is but trouble and sorrow and passes quickly and then we fly away!” (Psalm 90:10)
You have learned to be “satisfied in the morning with His unfailing love”. You may not sing for joy out loud but you are glad for every day. And you still look forward to any, or all of us coming and visiting with you. You are a good listener and I can remember my high school friends coming home with me to talk to you, not me!
You are wise… precious 101-year-old Mama. You have taught me, by example, to number my days, to be deliberate with my heritage, to think generations and to see how short and quickly life passes. I am paying attention. So, you see…your job is well done… but not finished yet…
Thank you for leading the way, leaving a print for me to step into
and showing me the pulse of sacrificial love…
I love you…
~Jackie Johnson - I am a former tribal missionary to the Kuna Indians on the Colombian border in Central America. Fluent in several languages, my husband and I currently pastor a Spanish-speaking church in Southern California. My passion is mentoring and equipping dedicated young women for life, marriage, motherhood, and beyond. I am the mother of two daughters and the grandmother of three Princesses and four young Knights.
