Happy Birthday Mom!!!!! Tomorrow, March 2 2014, You Would Have Been 84! I Think You're Way Ahead!

My Mom, Barbara Thompson Baker who went Home to be with Jesus August 17, 2013, loved and lived this verse. It was her source of assurance, peace and purpose. For she shared the Love and Life of Jesus with everyone she met!

1 Corinthians 2:7-9 But we impart a secret and hidden wisdom of God, which God decreed before the ages for our glory. None of the rulers of this age understood this, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. But, as it is written,”What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those who love him”

This made her a joy to be around and sometimes, let's be frank kids, an embarrassment. My youngest brother tells a story of leaving her alone for a minute while he paid a check and seeing her out on the sidewalk with a hairy looking guy on a motorcycle. Mom was in her mid to late 70's and Scott was a little nervous for her. He said, he should have been worried for the guy in the helmet because it was his day of reckoning! When he glanced over a second time, he found the fellow was crying. That was our mom for you. Always sharing the heart of Jesus with everyone she met.

She was such a delight. She had dementia by that time, but in so many ways was still very sharp. She had her Spirit working for her and her relationship with Christ was solid and never waned. She had some anxiety as part of her illness in her last years, but she never feared death. She knew that the Lord Jesus, her husband as she called Him, for she believed the believers, the beloved were the Bride of Christ...would call her Home one day and she would be with Him forever.

We all miss her so much, all of her kids, adopted and blood. She had a way of mothering and loving more than just her four that was so real. And we were happy to share her. There were testimonies at her Celebration of Life in August of 2013 from people whose lives she had impacted that blessed us so much!

There is not a day that goes by that I don't wake up and want to call her on the phone as was my habit. But, then I pause to commune with my Lord first thing and think my mom would have wanted it that way.

Proverbs 22:6 Train up a child in the way he should go,
Even when he is old he will not depart from it. 

That was my mom's dad's (My grandfather's favorite verse). She learned it well and passed it on. Love you mom. And Thanks! xxoo Lib