Saints Glory Days

[Written yesterday]

My appreciation of honoring saints on their glory days grows, now having known some, such as my mother and father. Twelve years ago today (on April 7, 2002) Vivian Eloise Milliken Peterson died at age 85. Exactly nine years later (three years ago today, on April 7, 2011) Elmer Leslie Peterson died at age 99.

Dad chose “Present with the Lord” for mom’s grave marker at Tahoma National Cemetery near Kent, Washington. Those years later, after his graveside service, we sat in the car outside the cemetery office, trying to think of something to have engraved on his side of the marker. We were struggling a bit when the solution finally “popped” into our heads: “Man of God, Full of Years.”

Since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. (Hebrews 12:1-2)