The other day, my friend Donna brought our family a lovely plate of yummy chocolate chip cookies, along with a baby congratulations card addressed to… Susannah? Huh? It was a joke, a facetious yet flattering reference to Susannah Wesley, famed 17th century mother of 19 children. (Nine of them died before age two, so I guess that puts me even with her raising ten kids.) Anyway, Susannah Wesley is notorious among Christian home school moms as being incredibly disciplined and hardworking, with very high standards for her children. She even wrote theology books for them! Oh, how she puts me to shame in her level of faithfulness! But at least she’s one of my role models, and at least I’m trying. http://www.historyswomen.com/womenoffaith/SusannahWesley.html
Another noteworthy Susannah was the wife of the great Baptist preacher Charles Spurgeon. After the birth of her twin sons in 1857, she suffered poor health and was often bedridden, but that didn’t stop her from training these precious children faithfully. One of Susannah’s other legacies, besides writing several books of her own, was setting up a Book Fund to supply poor pastors with theological books. Now there’s a woman after my own heart!
Well, it’s time to end my time travel for the moment, and get back to my own family in 2005!
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