From, My Garden of Exotic Thoughts
“Charm is deceptive, and beauty does not last: but a woman who fears the Lord will be greatly praised.” (Proverbs 31:30 NLT).
Although, 12 years after her departure, that woman continues repairing the deepest cracks in my soul with her wisdom.
She was no more than five feet tall, but her heart was beyond measure. She planted 28 churches in different states and in the Dominican Republic. She founded a foundation to help the injured to provide them with wheelchairs and everything necessary to be able to rehabilitate themselves.
She also founded several medical centers for the poor and homeless.
“Reward her for all she has done. let her deeds publicly declare her praise.” ( Proverbs 31:31)
She became so violent when her first grandchild died that she sued to snatch ten thousand souls out of darkness and bring them into the Light.
She also built different kinds of schools, from literacy, languages, home economics, agriculture and her masterpiece was the Kelbyn school in Santo Domingo.
Space and time do not allow me to say everything that little woman did in her shorts, but very well used 86 years on this earth. And she won her claim for ten thousand souls, exponentially.
She told my son, “Everybody is selling something”. He asked. “What do you mean?” She explained, “people want you to believe their opinions or their excuses. That’s doesn’t mean that you have to buy what they’re offering.”
That brief, but profound lesson left me dumbfounded. I miss her wisdom so much, I never got to fully know the depth of her wisdom. She was my pastor, my mentor, my friend and my mother. And as I am her daughter, surely this statement will be part of my patrimony. A little morsel of wisdom for my garden of exotic thoughts.
“When she speaks, her words are wise, and she gives instructions with kindness.” (Proverbs 31:26 NLT).
This is my Story! What’s Yours?
From, My Garden of Exotic Thoughts
Pastor María Arias, 1923-2010
A little morsel of wisdom for my garden of exotic thoughts.
“There are many virtuous and capable women in the world, but you surpass them all”
(Proverbs 31:30 NLT).
This is my Story! What’s Yours?