This Little Light of Mine
My mother loved children. Perhaps because of her own lack of self confidence and self-esteem she found it safe to be with children. She blossomed with the care of children. She cared deeply for their souls. Her life can be told through countless Sunday School lessons, Released Time sessions and Vacation Bible School. At 80 she was back in a nursery serving the “cradle roll” as she had so many years before in the basement of our beloved church, Salem Gospel Tabernacle. There are photos in my memory of her with Sunday School classes of young girls holding their Bibles. There were other photos of these same girls smiling in our backyard as she hosted them for a picnic. Later, came leading the “downstairs” Sunday School, Released Time, serving at Camp and helping on the Lower East Side of Manhattan with the mission work of her friend Sister Jacobsen. Curriculum and music had to pass the Elsie theological tests. She wasn’t a particularl...