Today is Tuesday, March 14th, 2006; Karen's Korner #757

I have heard my mom recount this story of her mother more than once:
 
My grandma (her mom Alice Eyestone Merwin) had a heart attack when she was 39 years old. The year would have been 1929. Not many medicines and surgeries for heart patients back in that era. At the time, mom was one of about eight children.
 
Since there wasn't medical care available, Grandma Merwin took her concerns and conditions to the Great Physician. Mom said, "She prayed and asked God to spare her life so that she could raise her children. She knew that if something happened to her, we kids would be divided up and raised in several homes. Mom didn't want that to happen. She wanted us to stay together."
 
As the years passed, more children were added to the Merwin clan. Mom is one of fifteen children! And her mother's health remained strong and stable.
 
It was in 1953 that Grandma Merwin was killed in a car accident in Colorado while traveling with her husband, Grandpa Chauncie Merwin. Bud and Honey (aka Paul and Pauline), the twins and Mom's youngest brother and sister, had just turned 19. And were on their own!
 
God had answered their mother's prayer!!
 
Some may wonder why God didn't allow Grandma even more time with her kids and with a growing explosion of grandchildren. Maybe He had even bigger and better plans for her!!

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