Mama Cooper's Birthday

Today is my Mother's birthday!  Yes, she had eight children and yes, she was Missouri Mother of the Year!  But all those things are a distant second and third to me!  She was My Mother!!  I might have been last in the line of births but she always made me feel I was first in her heart!

She gave me life at birth and she, singlehandedly,

restored my life when I went home to Charleston, at age 50, crushed and disgraced by the circumstances of my life!  She guarded me from everyone like a mother hen!  She sat on my bed each morning and made me repeat with her, "This is the day that the Lord has made!  We will rejoice and be glad in it!"

Well, Mama,  thanks to you and only you, I came through it!  You restored my soul and gave me life anew!