"Remember the Sabbath Day to Keep it Holy". Exodus 20:8

I love to see the steeples of churches as I enter a city. It gives me faith that the people of the city love God. I love to see church parking lots filled with cars on the Sabbath. My husband and I traveled a lot as we raised our children. Often in our travels we would be gone over a weekend. Because of the love my husband had for God and Jesus Christ, on Saturday night he would procure a telephone book and look up the address of a church we could attend. This was the way we always did it before we had cell phones. Sometimes it would not be the church we were members of and sometimes it was a different denomination. Nevertheless, we were teaching our children to keep the Sabbath day holy.  My husband loved to deer hunt. On one hunting trip, he decided to stay over the Sabbath. I had not put Sunday clothes in my packing, and the children’s Keds (tennis shoes) had been placed around a campfire and the toes were burned out. It would be 250 miles round trip to find a church, but we went. We sat on the last row and I told the children to keep their feet under their seat so no one would see them. It was a wonderful Sabbath day. My picture is of the Andrews Methodist Episcopal Church (the Mother’s Day Church​) in Grafton, ​West Virginia. It is a beautiful church with stained glass windows that portray the life of Jesus Christ. It is called the Mother’s Day church because of Ann Marie Jarvis and her daughter Anna Jarvis who were members of the congregation. They fought to establish Mother’s Day as the second Sunday in May. (photo courtesy of Barton family archives)