As a child and later an adult my mother favorite saying “behind every dark cloud there is a silver lining.” Job was her all time favorite book in the Bible. My mom had challenges unimaginable for the average person to bear. At birth she had rickets a disease uncommon today. She grew into adulthood at age 23 was diagnosed with a rare severe form of neurofibromatosis. A disease that covered my mom from head to toe with tumors of sizes. She was trained as a nurse from the Providence School of Nursing in Chicago. And was let go from the railroad hospital where she worked until the age of 32. The doctors told her she was frightening her patients. My mom met married my dad a Navy vet at the age 24 and 3-years later; she became my mom. I was her first child of 3 kids. Back in 1949 having a child at that age was considered old. To get to the end of this mom became a constant patient at Mayo Clinic in Minnesota. They removed a large growth off the side of her face similar to a large bag. They placed a steel plate in her head and she came home. Not bitter nor did she permit my brother and me to fight other kids when they would tease us about our mom. Sometimes kids would say mean things to us if we were all together. Mom would look at us and say remember the story of Job. I never seen my mom cry. Our little sister was lost in a house fire while all her health issues were challenging her. She was going through a divorce at the time of Helen’s passing. She took care of us by cooking for a workingman’s boarding house. She eventually returned to college and got her B.S. in Social Work. Helping and caring for people her passion. She never thought she would see her two remaining children grown but the Lord bless her to see that happened. Not only her children grown but a son-inlaw and a daughter inlaw and 6-grandkids. Mom was diagnosed with Breast Cancer at age 51. She passed away at age 52 donated her body to Science. She had made her final plans 2-weeks before she died. Her Memorial Services included: 23rd Psalms and the 9th-13th Book of Job. In all this before she passed she never complained nor did we see her cry. I still remember what my mom said. I don’t complain and hold on to my faith in the Lord. Thank God I never turned to drugs and alcohol to deal with my life’s storms. I found out this precious gift of life gives me my highs and enough drama to make me drunk. Life without the Lord for me would be boring, depressive, and not worth living. He gives me plenty to get high on. Couldn’t handled 50-years of marriage 5-kids- 3-of them with challenges, 9-grandkids, obtained 3-degrees, and enough medical drama for a TV series without Jesus being the silver lining behind the dark clouds in my life. We do serve an awesome God.