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January 28, 2021 The Reason for the Rocks Sharon Jaynes Today's Truth After that whole generation had been gathered to their ancestors, another generation grew up who knew neither the LORD nor what he had done for Israel. (Judges 2:10 NIV) Friend to Friend Several years after the loss of our second child, I found an old Bible tucked in a cedar chest in my mom's attic. As I flipped through the pages, I stumbled upon a crude chart of our family tree written in my mom's flourishing hand. Listed were the names, dates of birth, and dates of death for my maternal and paternal great-grandparents and grandparents. Next, came my parents, my brother, Stewart, then me, and then my sister, Gloria Gale. My mind stopped for a beat. My sister, Gloria Gale? Who's that?! I never knew I had a sister named Gloria Gale. But there it was. A date of birth and a date of death. Digging through the old chest, I found pictures of a tiny casket, a child-sized grave, and an engraved tombstone. I ran downstairs holding the opened Bible in my hand, walked over to my mom, pointed at the entry, and said, "What's this about? Who is Gloria Gale?" "I had a baby girl when you were two years old," she said. "I guess you were too little to remember it. She was premature. She only lived a day." "Why have you never told me I had a sister?" "That was a long time ago," she said. "I don't really want to talk about it." I was dumbstruck. Why didn't she want to talk about? Why didn't she tell me? More importantly, why didn't she share her painful story with me when I went through a similar experience of my own? The story had lain dormant, tucked between my dad's high school letter jacket and a piece of old cross-stitch, when it could have been a story that gave me hope at a time when I needed to know life would go on. One of the saddest verses in the Bible is Judges 2:10: "After that whole generation had been gathered to their ancestors, another generation grew up who knew neither the LORD nor what he had done for Israel."   CONTINUE READING →

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