She didn’t have to save those girls.
The water was already rising. The screaming had already started. Every instinct in her body said run.
She stayed and tried anyway.
She was a teenager at Camp Mystic in Texas when the floods came and took everything. And in the middle of that chaos — when most people freeze, when most people save themselves — she saved others.
And then the river took her.
She had her whole life in front of her. A whole story that never got told. She was someone’s daughter, someone’s future, someone’s everything.
She was my best friend’s niece.
I don’t know what makes a person do that. I don’t know where that kind of courage comes from at that age — when you’re still figuring out who you are and the water is up to your chest and the night is loud with terror.
But she knew. She knew exactly who she was.
Some people live 80 years and never find that out.
She found it in her last moments — and she spent it on somebody else’s kids.
That’s not a tragedy. That’s a legacy.
Rest in the arms of the One who saw what you did, sweetheart.
The Bible has one of the best Mothers’ Day stories, one that every son or daughter can relate to.
It’s the wedding at Cana. (John 2:1-11)
Jesus goes to this wedding with His mother, Mary, and the wedding celebration runs out of wine. (That was kind of a disaster. Can you imagine a modern wedding reception where the open bar runs out of booze?)
Jesus had not started His ministry yet but Mary knew who He was and what powers He possessed.
Mary just looks at Jesus and simply says “They have no more wine.”
Every son or daughter knows that terse, commanding look—“Do something about it Jesus, I’m not playing.” (That’s not actually scripture, that last part is my imagination.)
So Jesus says: “Woman, why do you involve me? My hour has not yet come.”
Then, in one of the more humorous moments in the Bible, Mary just ignores Jesus and looks at the servants and says: "Do whatever he tells you.”
It’s really easy to imagine Jesus rolling His eyes, giving off a deep sigh, and then doing what His mother told Him to do. He turned six stone jars of water into the best wine anyone had ever tasted.
Because even the Son of God listens to His mother.
Happy Mothers’ Day.
Thomas Sowell on Barack Obama:
“I see him as someone who all his life has been associated with people who fundamentally don’t believe in the principles of this country.”
“He always sought out the most radical people. He worked as a ‘community organizer.’ He doesn’t organize a community. He’s mobilizing all the resentments, organizing them in order to put them into battle to get what they want from other people.”