Board of Directors
It was almost twenty years ago now and I don’t even remember who the speaker was, but I was sitting in a crowd of people from all over the world on opening weekend, my very first year over seas. The speaker was challenging us to find our own personal Board of Directors to help guide us through life. He said we needed people from different stages of life: some who walked behind us that we could encourage on, and some right beside us, and lastly some that were ahead of us in their journeys that could be a becon of light to us. As I sat thinking through the people in my life who might be on my Board of Directors I knew that as long as I was willing she would be one of my advisors... For the rest of her life she was. Just a few days before I got on the plane she told me she prayed for me every single day. Over the years she would remind me that she was still praying. When life was hard I knew that I always had her standing before Jesus on my behalf. I shared with her always ...