“Great Is Thy Faithfulness” (Day 17)

Verse of the Day
“The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases, his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.” – Lamentations 3:22-23
 
I was born in 1940 in Patten, Maine, and by God’s grace I have lived a full life. Faith began early for me. My mother made sure we went to Sunday School starting at age five. Every Sunday we were at the United Methodist Church in Patten. When I was sixteen, I was already teaching a third-grade Sunday School class—twelve boys and one girl in a tiny entryway classroom! Our pastor, Herman Grant, once told me, “Maybe there’s something more they need than just the books of the Bible.” I never forgot that.
 
After high school I studied Medical Technology at the University of Maine. Those were difficult years. I worked hard in school, and Bill—who later became my husband—encouraged me to finish. I graduated in 1963 and began working at the new hospital in Presque Isle.
 
Life brought both joy and hardship. We lost a baby through miscarriage before our daughter Mary was born in 1967. Mary was tiny, with bright red hair. I stayed home with her, hanging diapers on the line in deep winter snow.
 
Later I returned to the lab and was given a wonderful opportunity—to help start a school for laboratory aides. I taught for ten years. It was one of the greatest blessings of my life.
 
My journey eventually took me to Massachusetts, then to Iowa for thirty years, and later to Sedona, Arizona, with my second husband, Dick Moore. We had ten good years together before he passed away in 2013.
 
That same year, my brothers helped me move back to Maine. Now I live in a nursing home. It is a new season, but God is still at work. We gather for morning devotions and a weekly Bible study. I pray for Sunday services and still love to sing hymns like “Blessed Assurance” and “I Love to Tell the Story.”
 
Through every season, one truth remains: God loves us. And there’s nothing we can do about it. That truth has carried me all my life. – Roberta Moore (Finnemore)
 
Thought for the Day
Every season of life—joyful or difficult—can become part of our story of God’s faithfulness. As you reflect on your own life today, where can you see God’s steady love guiding you through both the blessings and the challenges?

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