Nor did my mother — earlier a Roman Catholic — ever forget. Long after she lost the ability to read God’s Word, she clung to the Bible I gave her. She then tore out and quite literally ate a page a day from Genesis to Joshua; and again, backwards, from Revelation to Second Corinthians — until her death in 1996.
At the end of 2000, I retired from my Professorship in Theology and settled down to update my various writings in the sunset of my own life here in Australia. While searching for another manuscript, I came across the above-mentioned list for the first time in more than two decades! I then realized that if I fleshed it out into a series of short daily readings, it could be used to encourage many of God’s saints in their old age — including my wife and I, who have now joined that category!
