Mama It Ain't Over 'Til the Pink Marble Comes! - Softcover

Sandee Williams; Jeanne Todd

9780929292779: Mama It Ain't Over 'Til the Pink Marble Comes!

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0929292774 ISBN 13: 9780929292779

Publisher: Hannibal Books, 1994

This is the dramatic story of a family that pulls together in times of crisis. Then the ultimate crisis occurs. Mama, Dorothy Williams, is told she has terminal cancer. She gathers her three adult children to her and said, Well, kids, I've taught you how to live and now I'm going to teach you how to die. This book does just that. First it teaches how to live by giving illustrations of the laughs and turmoils, tears and triumphs that befall the family of Dr. Gene Williams, pastor, evangelist, educator/administrator. Sandee Williams, their firstborn, tells the story with wit and wisdom. Her tales have the ring of truth about them. No plaster saints here. Just real people with whom the reader can readily identify. By the time Dorothy receives her dreaded diagnosis, you feel like part of the family. Thoughts of How could this happen to such godly people? flood your emotions. Then as you read of the three-year process of fighting a courageous campaign battling the inevitable, you also discover the way to face death. You learn that people die the way they live. Dorothy Williams lived her life as a gutsy, determined, classy woman. She died the same way. This is not a maudlin book. There is triumph in the tragedy. It is certainly not a book to be easily forgotten. Anyone who has ever lost a loved one will find this book both cathartic and inspirational. Written with the love and joy and pathos of I Remember Mama by author Kathryn Forbes, Mama, it ain't over 'til the pink marble comes is the type of book you want to share with someone. You learn the significance of the title in the first chapter. The book closes with a photo and a selection of Sandee's Letters to Mama, written after the funeral. None of us, Sandee said in one letter, could have been what we are without you--our 'wind beneath our wings'.

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From the Author:

"(After Mama died) All I wanted to do was to talk about my hurt because, by not talking about it, the pain became more intense. And what I needed most was someone to just listen. I asked myself, 'What do you do with a person in grief?" My answer was simply, 'Nothing, just be there.' Words from Mama echoed through my mind: 'Life is a process of learning and growing. God never promised that this process would be pain free. But remember, my darling daughter, the goodness that comes from any of this is that you have an opportunity . . . an opportunity to become more like Christ.' So I began to ask myself an important question, 'What is grief?' What I came to was that grief is a normal response to loss, and it is a road we all must walk. But I noted that everyone walked this road differently. Grief for me was a process which included denial, anger, physical and emotional anguish, and a hope for future acceptance. I knew if I missed any aspect of the process, I might rumble around in my misery for many years to come. And, if I was Mama's daughter, I would take each step of grief with great gusto."

About the Author:

Sandee Williams is a a counselor and daughter of Dr. Gene Williams, a well-known Southern Baptist evangelist and long-time president of Luther Rice Seminary.

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