One Revive Our Hearts listener describes a priceless gift.

My mother, before she died, wrote a three-volume autobiography.

She was not a professional writer by any means, but she was a delightful writer.

That book is going to speak through my mother to her descendants for years and years and years to come.

It's wonderful memorial.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast for Monday, September 29th, 2014. After observing a miracle, Joshua set up a memorial made of big heavy stones.

We've explored that story with Nancy Lee DeMoss during the teaching series, lessons from the life of Joshua, Part 8, before we conquer.

Well, today, no one expects you to hoist any boulders, but you can still set up some meaningful markers of remembrance.

Nancy's talking with members of our audience about the importance of setting up those markers.

Some of you know, my friend, our friend friend Holly Elliff, who's been on the

program with us a number of times over the years, and she's not able to be here with us today, but she and I was at their house not too long ago, and just looking out the window into the backyard, and she said, you see that tree over there? I looked it's not a real big tree. She said, at her dad's funeral, Holly's husband Bill, who's a pastor, preached that funeral.

And he talked about how Holly's dad was like an oak tree.

There was a stability in his life.

He had been a forester, and he loved trees and all things outdoors.

And so he gave some analogies to how Holly's dad had characteristics that were of the stability and

depth of a tree. And so some women, some of the moms that Holly is ministered to from her church

came and brought this tree and it's planted now in her backyard. And again, a reminder of her

heritage and what her dad has meant in her life and something she'll be able to point to her children and her grandchildren.

So it can be a time of sorrow. It can be representative of someone who's made a significant impact in our lives.

And again, it's the common, what would otherwise be common, that we attach uncommon meaning and significance to, that is what

makes it a special memorial.

Well, let's see.

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