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CHRISTIAN LIVING TODAY

My mother-in-law, Ruth Onarecker, strongly influenced my life. She passed away when I was in my mid-20s, yet hardly a day goes by that I don’t remember her words, ideas and great love for us. Ruth had a small plaque in her house, probably from the 1950s, which I later inherited — and today it’s in my daughter’s home.

It reads, “So long as you’re green you grow; when you think you’re ripe, you begin to get rotten.”