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Marked by Momma Bible in a Year: Joshua 1–3; Mark 16 Continue in what you have learned and have become convinced of, because you know those from whom you learned it. 2 Timothy 3:14 2 Timothy 1:3-7 Her name was long but her years were even longer. Madeline Harriet Orr Jackson Williams lived to be 101 years old, outliving two husbands. Both were preachers. Madeline was my grandmother, and we knew her as Momma. My siblings and I got to know her well; we lived in her home until her second husband whisked her away. Even then she was less than fifty miles away from us. Our grandmother was a hymn-singing, catechism-reciting, piano-playing, God-fearing woman, and my siblings and I have been marked by her faith. According to 2 Timothy 1:3–7, Timothy’s grandmother Lois and his mother Eunice had a huge impact on his life. Their living and teaching were rooted in the soil of Scripture (v. 5; 2 Timothy 3:14–16) and eventually their faith blossomed in Timothy’s heart. His biblically based upbringing was not only foundational for his relationship with God, but it was also vital to his usefulness in the Lord’s service (1:6–7). Today, as well as in Timothy’s time, God uses faithful women and men to mark future generations. Our prayers, words, actions, and service can be powerfully used by the Lord while we live and after we’re gone. That’s why my siblings and I still rehearse things that were passed on to us from Momma. My prayer is that Momma’s legacy will not stop with us. Today's Reflection How are you using your prayer, words, actions, and service to grow others in Jesus? What would you like your legacy to be? 
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We do mark our children by what we do and say, sometimes to their betterment and sometimes to their detriment. Sometimes a child wants to emulate their parents and grandparents, and other times they want to be opposite. I love and honor my mother as my mother, but I chose to be the exact opposite of her. Be a prism, spreading God's light and love, not a mirror reflecting the world's hatred.
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