Was your grandmother religious? And if she is still alive, is she still active in a religion? – OpentheWord.org
When I was a boy, my parents took us to church, or sent us, at least three times a week. My father often worked away from home, so Mom kept the faith, at home. I just got used to the idea that women are religious, and men support them. That was an older generation, and probably most other people my age had the same experience. I had some good friends, two boys, in my neighborhood, and their mother was searching for something to believe. At least that’s what I was told. One day, someone knocked on her door to talk about God. Those people were Jehovah’s Witnesses, and they convinced the mother of my friends to join them. I still remember trying to sleep, on a Saturday morning, when someone knocked on the front door of our house. I knew what was going to happen after that. My sleep time was over. My religious mother would open the door, and a team of Jehovah’s Witnesses would be there to speak to her. That team included …
