A Mother's Legacy

(Excerpt from Randy Alcorn’s book, Safely Home)

“Mother copied it carefully. She would borrow a Bible whenever she could. She’d work for hours by candlelight, praying the words aloud as she copied. I wish I would have listened more closely. Often she would rest her head on Shengjing. Sometimes she would giggle with delight. It was a labor of love. Months, even a year, went by when she had no Bible to copy. It took her eight years to finish her whole Bible. Six months before she died, Mother finished copying Shengjing’s final book” (129).

Persecuted for their faith, Quan and his family continued the practice, secretly copying the  books of the Bible by hand, modeling his mother’s example, and passing the discipline down to their son.

“As we copy,” Quan said, “the words of Yesu are written on our hearts” (128).

Safely Home is fiction, but its message is not.

Alcorn, Randy. Safely Home. 10th Anniversary Edition. Carol Stream, Illinois: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. 2011.