5.13-The Value of a Fearless Mother

5.13-The Value of a Fearless Mother


Remembering my mother, Cora Sue Wishard, on mother’s day, 2018.

She journaled every day. It might be a list of how many eggs she got or a list of all the people who came over after church to play “42”. It was a record of her activities more than a record of her feelings about things that happened. She would register there when she was lonely or sad which happened usually when the kids and grandkids left to go home.

She was a room mother for her four children and loved to attend their school plays and sports events. All of her children played sports in high school. Kids, grandkids and great great grandkids have played high school and even college sports.

She wanted to be a fun-loving host. This she did. Showers, she had many in her home, but helped to sponsor many others to celebrate marriage and babies.

Over and over with a variety of family and friends in a variety of ways. Reunions. Drop by folks who would grace our summer late afternoon porch swinging times with a visit. School buddies from many years back. Gwendlyn Porter and Joe. A.J. and Charlene Thompson. Eli and Jean Word. So many others.

She read her Bible every day for most of my life. She had a Red Bible that had sat in her swing on the front porch and then the rain had gotten it wet and all the thin pagers were wrinkled. It made me happy to see it in that condition because forever it reminded me that she was constantly seeking for a better way of life for herself. She had a Black large print Bible. She had told me she had trouble with keeping her attitude positive in spite of things that she could not control. Her Bible reading time was the way she reset her attitude each day.

She had wanted to go to college, but she was not able to do so because of her family responsibilities and her lack of money. She celebrated the educational opportunities of her kids and grandkids.
This year I saw pictures of her grandson, Alan Wishard’s graduation from with a Masters in Counseling. A great, grandson, Cody Luttrell, with a Masters in Accounting.

Love you mother.





1 Peter 3.

3 In the same way, you wives, be submissive to your own husbands so that even if any of them are disobedient to the word, they may be won without a word by the behavior of their wives, ² as they observe your chaste and ^[a]respectful behavior. ³ Your adornment must not be merely external—braiding the hair, and wearing gold jewelry, or putting on dresses; ⁴ but let it be the hidden person of the heart, with the imperishable quality of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is precious in the sight of God. ⁵ For in this way in former times the holy women also, who hoped in God, used to adorn themselves, being submissive to their own husbands; ⁶ just as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, and you have become her children if you do what is right ^[b]without being frightened by any fear.

Larry Wishard
5.12.18