First
of all, I want to express my sincere thanks to all my friends and brethren from
the Bethel Norte Church, for all your work in making the night of celebration
such a very special event. I know that
all of them are very busy and that they had to make a special effort to plan
and execute the tribute they gave me on Tuesday, July 26th, here in
Durango. In reality it was a super
special time and we are very thankful.
I
was impressed by the number of people who attended. I had thought that we could have the event in
the church´s auditorium, but the pastors decided they would hold it at the
Richard Castro Theater, and they were
right. I was surprised by the number of
people who attended and the effort they made also in order to be there on my
special day. We (my first husband, Jerry
Witt I, and our two little boys, Jerry and Mark) arrived in Durango on June 26,
1962 and the difference between that day and the day of our celebration is incredible! God has done a work here in Durango that
no-one would have ever been able to predict.
He is faithful. (Some 900 people were present with every evangelical
denomination in the city represented.)
Also,
I was impressed by the fact that the Governor of the state of Durango, along
with his wife and the Mayor of the city of Durango, were present, but more than
that they stayed for the entire program which lasted one hour and forty
minutes! They told me later that it had
been an enjoyable time for them and that they had been very moved and blessed.
To
be able to see my children and my grandchildren doing the music for the program
and then sharing the Word of God also was a blessing. At the end of the program with all the family
members who were present, we sang together “To God Be The Glory”. That was also a very special time. That experience alone caused me to remember
the passage that is found in Deuteronomy 11:18-20:
“Therefore you shall lay up these
words of mine in your heart and in your soul, and bind them as a sign on your
hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall teach them to your children,
speaking of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you
lie down, and when you rise up. And you
shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.”
I
know that my children are not perfect but when I saw them along with several of
the grandchildren, singing and praising God at that event, I gave thanks to God
that my husband, Frank Warren, and I had established in their hearts the
importance of the Word of God as their guide for their entire lives. When they were small and growing up here in
Mexico, Frank and I were criticized many times by people who said that they
were going to be emotionally messed up, without a good education, without the
necessary social contacts for a good life, because of the way we put into their
daily lives so much emphasis on the Word of God. But, that night in that Theater on the 26th
of June, 2012, we saw an example of what the Word of God can do in the lives of
four generations who have studied, appreciated and loved the principles of the
Word of God in every facet of their lives.
I
am myself third generation who has
followed Jesus because of the teachings of the Word of God by my
grandparents and my parents, and if we include my great-grandchildren, we can
say that there are now six generations in one family who have taken the Bible
as their living guide and we can see the results of that decision.
“Forever, O Lord, Your word is
settled in heaven. Your faithfulness
endures to all generations . . . (Psalm 119:90 NKJ).
TO
GOD BE THE GLORY!
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