The Cup She Couldn't Stop Raising
In 2019, a retired schoolteacher named Dorothy Edwards stood before her small congregation in Macon, Georgia, holding a ceramic coffee mug. It was chipped, stained...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Psalm 116:12-13, 15-18.
In 2019, a retired schoolteacher named Dorothy Edwards stood before her small congregation in Macon, Georgia, holding a ceramic coffee mug. It was chipped, stained with decades of use, and utterly ordinary. But when Dorothy lifted it, her hands trembled — not from age, but from emotion. Three months earlier, doctors had told her the cancer was terminal. Six weeks, maybe eight.…
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