This past week was a long one.  We knew my momma was in the last few days of her life, and on the first of July, at about eight p.m., she went home to be with her Lord.  Since I stated the purpose of this blog to be exploring what it means to be a Christian in todays world, we could look a long time and never find a better example than Nadine Rice Dobbs.  She was married for over fifty seven years to Leroy Dobbs, Sr., and loved him without question for all those years, and for the next eleven after he died.  She was at church whenever there was a service, until the last few months of her life.  She brought my brother, sister, and me to all those services as well as long as we were at home.  I know you may have heard the expression she drug us to church, but not only that, she drug us out if we acted up.  She loved us as Christ would expect a mother to love, from the day we were born until the day she died.  She was a Sunday School teacher for many, many years.  She didn't just go in and read what the quarterly said.  She studied all week to be prepared to teach.  She worked in Vacation Bible School, whether teaching or feeding the children snacks.  When she was almost eighty, she went on a mission trip to Guatemala.  After that, she went with my wife and me, and then with just me, to New Mexico to work on a mission church there, caulking walls and getting things ready to paint.  She always supported her pastor and often fed him.  She loved her grand children and great-grand children, as well as all the rest of her family, and always lifted them up in prayer.  At her funeral, one of her former pastors spoke about what a great prayer warrior she was, and anyone who knew her would have said the same thing.  She was always quick with a kind word for anyone who needed one.  The world may not know her as they do Paul, but she is still a great example of what a follower of Christ should be, and for nearly sixty eight years, I got to have her as my momma.