Our Lawson Family Heritage

  Remembering my mother, Marsha (Lawson) Somers on her birthday today. She passed away Dec. 31, 1995. This photo was taken in 1954 at the Bothwell Hotel Coffee Shop in Sedalia, Mo. She is the third waitress from the left. I think that mom would want to be remembered as a former sinner who was saved by grace. When she was young, she was lovely in appearance, but as a mature woman in her 60's she received Christ as her savior and she became very zealous for the things of God. Her greatest concern was for her children and grandchildren to come to know Christ.

By John Angell James (1785 - 1859) 1. The enjoyments and occupations of heaven are uniformly represented as social: but where is the charm of society without mutual knowledge? 2. Heaven is uniformly represented as perfecting all our faculties; is it then probable that it will diminish memory, one of the most important of them? And if memory be still retained in full vigor, and it be perpetually employed, as it inevitably must be, on the past scenes of our earthly existence, is it likely that the friends and companions of that existence, inhabiting then the same celestial world with us, will be unknown to us? 3. The chief grace that will be increased in the regions of the blest, next to love to God, will be love to our companions in glory. But will not one of the most pure, elevated, and delightful exercises of this holy passion be wanting, if we are ignorant of our glorified relatives? 4. In the general judgment, which is appointed to vindicate the ways of God to man, it is...