Lady of Leisure! Hard Working Husband! and Letter No. 12 - The Plan of Salvation

Wednesday was a Labor of Love and Thursday was a day of recovery!

Louis Dean and I sat up late last night visiting over a glass of wine after the kids left.

That's one of our favorite things to do.

Amber and I shopped Target on Sunday afternoon and I bought a set of flannel sheets for our bed.

Let me tell you - they are so comfortable!!!

It was after 11:00 this morning when I woke up!

I only got up twice in the night so I was sleeping like a log!

I lingered in bed another half hour before pouring my first cup of coffee and carrying it out to the den shortly before noon. After I woke up good and we had our devotions, I did a yoga workout, showered and dressed. I then proceeded to do what I do best - keep house! 

My hard working husband worked outside on the Sump Pump Project for the entire afternoon and into the evening! Rain is coming!

He really is a good man!

I told him I was sorry he had married into such a high maintenance house!!!

SURELY this is the very LAST drain he will need to put in this place!!!

I only have a few more letters in my collection to share. This is # 12 and my favorite.

I remember the first time I read it. I purchased the letters but didn't read them all at once.

I would read one each night before I went to bed. The night I first read this one, I was moved to tears by the love of this lady for her sisters and niece. It was written 5 years before I was born and yet I held it in my hand that night stunned at the truth she had written and how that message was being read so many years later by a stranger. Eva had no idea how far her letter would go and how many people would read it - long years after her death. I am certain she is rejoicing in heaven this very minute.

The letter is dated September 14, 1943 and written from Harlingen, Texas.

Dearest Leila and Katin and Polly -

This is not a letter to be read aloud. You are each to read it alone. I  know you won't criticize it when you know it comes from the very inner most recess of my heart - straight to you. I've been doing a lot of thinking and worrying and praying. Sometimes I feel like I don't have any too long a time left in this world (maybe I have several years - who knows) and I want to be sure of the fact that we will all be together in Heaven. I know this isn't a very popular subject, and but for the fact that I love you so very much, I might be tempted to put off saying anything about it now - but - dear ones - the road is so simple and easy to find - that is the reason so many people, who are member s of a church for many years - perhaps a lifetime - do not see the road. Please darlings, do not be hurt with me, or think I am presumptuous. I don't mean to be and I am not a fanatic. I'm just an old woman, broken in health - nearing the end - and I want to be sure of the safety of my loved ones. I am not one who has "lived my religion" or been a "shining light" for others - far from it, but I do know that my soul is safe and I am just going on the promises in God's Word. God tells us that all we have to do is trust Jesus. Just to take him at his word. Just to give our souls into his keeping now and know you are saved right now and always. II Timothy 1 ch. 12 verse - "For I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day." (Judgment Day) I'll tell you another place to look in the Bible that shows you nothing can separate us from Him. Romans 8 chapter - 38-39 verses. I am so dead in earnest about you understanding me - I have prayed as I write that God will help you understand why I write - and that you will not think that I presume - or that I am bigoted. I have seen so much sorrow and disappointment in this world I do want us all to be happy when we get there - all together - and Leila and Kathryn won't you please send this to Polly or let her read it too, if she isn't there - and write me the assurance of your faith so I can die happy. I haven't been very happy here. I  miss you dear ones more than you will ever know but I do want you to know how I love you.

Your own-

Eva

Someone asked me once, "If you were to die today, do you know for certain that you will go to heaven?" My answer was - and IS - Yes, I DO!!!