My Compelling Evidence

Yesterday was Mother’s Day.  I have thought a lot about why my mother is so good.  She had a difficult childhood, married young to an ambitious and visionary young pastor and raised four rather wayward children each of whom eventually found their way.  I do not know why she was such a good mother but one reason does always come to mind; she allowed me to live in utter sin without ever making me feel I had moved outside her unconditional love.  In all those years in a “far off land” I never felt condemned or judged but only that I was not living up to His calling but that her mercy and grace was obvious evidence that my mom, for my sake, was.