ONLY ONE LIFE
A Time to be born and a time to die. Eccl.3:1 Only One Life Twill Soon Be Past Only What’s Done For Christ Will Last. It has been years since I first heard this little poem, but it has stuck in my mind like a wet tongue on a frosty …
Ruth Bell Graham began this poem for her mother when she was nineteen years old on Mother’s Day 1940. She finished it thirty-four years later on November 8, 1974, the day her mother died. PORTRAIT COMPLETED As the portrait is unconscious of the master artist’s touch, unaware of growing beauty, …