{"id":1260,"date":"2012-04-19T17:28:23","date_gmt":"2012-04-19T21:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/?p=1260"},"modified":"2012-04-19T17:28:23","modified_gmt":"2012-04-19T21:28:23","slug":"without-a-mother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/2012\/04\/19\/without-a-mother\/","title":{"rendered":"Without a mother"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Rosalie grew up without a mother. Her mother had passed away when Rosalie was 15 months old, which started\u00a0a life including foster care, school struggles, a step-family, and\u00a0lots of rejection and put-downs. As a young adult, she found pleasure in the things the world has to offer.\u00a0 But then, she found more.\u00a0She was wonderously and gloriously saved, and God eventually guided her into missionary service with NTM.\u00a0God used her in a special way\u00a0in Papua New Guinea and then as a consultant to help other missionaries with literacy.\u00a0 Now\u00a0she is retired, but not really…. Many had encouraged her to write her life story, and her book is currently in the process of being published.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Rosalie and I (Ruth) worked together about 8 years ago\u00a0to develop a Literacy Manual as an aid to teach\u00a0missionaries how to set up a literacy program for tribal people.\u00a0 So when Rosalie needed someone to do a final read of her book, she asked me.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

One day when she called about the book,\u00a0she asked if I’d been to Maine lately.\u00a0(She is also from Maine, and so that is another of our connections.)\u00a0 Well, just that day I’d been looking at flights to Maine as my mom had some physical setbacks.\u00a0 My sister and I wanted to go and spend some time with her.\u00a0 The cost of flights shocked me. So my response to Rosalie’s question was\u00a0that I\u00a0wanted to go to see my mom, but the cost was prohibitive.<\/p>\n

The next day, Rosalie talked extensively with Dave.\u00a0 She had decided to give me the $400 fee for the\u00a0round trip flight to Maine.\u00a0 And the reason was because she grew up without a mother and she wanted me to be able to see mine.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Thanks, Rosalie.\u00a0 I had a great time with Mom and my sister. Got to see lots of family.\u00a0And I was so encouraged at the progress that my mom\u00a0made, even during that week we were with her.<\/p>\n

By the way, Rosalie’s autobiography is charming.\u00a0I highly recommend it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rosalie grew up without a mother. Her mother had passed away when Rosalie was 15 months old, which started\u00a0a life including foster care, school struggles, a step-family, and\u00a0lots of rejection and put-downs. As a young adult, she found pleasure in the things the world has to offer.\u00a0 But then, she found more.\u00a0She was wonderously and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1717],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-ruth","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}