MARY was always happy and ready to sing, so that you could justly call her Mary Sunshine. She was very busy, with carrying water, washing, cleaning, building fires in stoves, cooking, etc.; but each additional work seemed only to make her more happy. She was once asked:
“Why are you always so happy Mary? When one sees your rejoicing face, and hears your singing, one would think you had just received some remarkably good news.”
“Yes, indeed,” she replied, “there came very good tidings, the best of all, to me. I have found the Lord Jesus, or He has found me.
“Now I can be happy every day, and do my work for Him and with Him. When I clean the house, I hear Him say, ‘Mary do this for Me!’ When I set the table, it seems to me, as if He was invited, and I could arrange all for Him; and if I take care of the children, then I remember His word, ‘Shepherd My lambs!’
“I use to do everything just because I had to, but now, I do all things with a happy heart, for my Saviour, therefore everything goes so easy.”
ML 10/22/1933