Hold on Mother: Based on a True Story

By Andrew Scott

To this day I’ve tried to be like my Mother. Living right, helping others, giving to others. And most of all, trusting in the Lord. Living for Him like Mother did everyday.

You see, ever since Mother died and I grew up to be a young man and my mother has been on my mind and heart ever since that day and year, I’ve always prayed for a good woman like my mother. I’m hoping that one day the Lord will bless me with a good, loving wife like my mother. One who would love the Lord with her whole heart, as Mother did.

Our mother and father were the greatest love from God that my brothers and sisters and I knew of. Even though it was only for a short time that we had them both, it still was a blessing from God to us all. And we thanked God for them both.

You see, their days and nights became short. Even the short years of our loving mother and father, of their time. Their days and nights and years became the greatest days and nights and years of our lives, forever. Mother and Father, wherever you both are now, rest in peace of all of our God.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Oct 8, 2021
• ISBN: 9781543497748

Andrew Scott

Andrew J. Scott is Professor of Economics at the London Business School and consulting scholar at Stanford University's Center on Longevity, having previously held positions at Harvard and Oxford. Through his multi-award-winning research, writing and teaching, his ideas inform a global understanding of the profound shifts reshaping our world and the actions needed for us to flourish individually and as a society. Board member and advisor to a range of corporates and governments, he is co-founder of the Longevity Forum and a member of the advisory board of the Office for Budget Responsibility and the UK Cabinet Office Honours Committee. He lives in London.

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Rev. date: 09/09/2021

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Contents

Dedicated To My Children And Grandchildren

Introduction

The Prayer That Saved Mother’s Child

Chapter 1 Living With Mother And Father

Chapter 2 The Hot Boiling Water

Chapter 3 Birth At The Wrong Time

Chapter 4 Living With Father Only

Chapter 5 The Welfare and Father

Chapter 6 Placed In The New Home

Chapter 7 The Bad Brother

Chapter 8 Sisters Lived With Father’s Brother

Chapter 9 Welfare Made Sure We Saw Our Father

Chapter 10 Mother’s Wake And Family

Chapter 11 After The Death Of Father

Chapter 12 The Draft Of A Brother

A Song Written About Mother

Save Cause of Mother

To My Youngest Dear Sister

Conclusion

To All Mothers and Fathers

God Can Help You Too, If You Find Him

To You Who Don’t Know Of Our God

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Dedicated To My Children And Grandchildren

Children, I dedicate this book to you, my children and grand children. I’m hoping that this book would change your life to become a better person in life. As it did mine. As you goes through reading it, let it teach you something about true way of living with what you have, and what God had blessed you with. And the real truth of real happiness of a father who loved his children and a real true, living God.

I thank you my daughter for wanting to be a part of me and my book here. You just don’t know how much this means to me. Having your own child wanting to be a part of something that you had written. Something such as a book. Thank you mine child. Dad love you all. Never forget this mine child. I’ve never thought that this day would ever get here. But it did.

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Introduction

The year was 1963. The war was still going on. The world was really a mess. Little of everything was happening. JFK was President. Blacks and whites were fighting each other on the streets and everywhere. Seemed like there was no peace anywhere you went.

Here my brothers and I and a sister were living in this big old house. In this big city of St. Louis, Missouri, with tall and high and small buildings. Living with Mother and Father. There were five of us - four brothers and one sister. We all were small and young children.

Our mother was going to have another child soon, so she had to be here for us. And Father, he worked all of the time, trying to make a living for us, his family, and put food on the table.

Poor Mother, she worked hard around the house, cleaning up, singing and praying to the Lord to help take care of us, her family. That He would keep us safe from the trouble of this old world. And others, too. Times were hard, but everything was fine here in our house.

But one day childbirth made Mother have to choose between her and her child. Then Mother planned our lives, there on her deathbed, for us. She made Father promise to her that he would take care of us. And he did promise her that he would do this for her before she passed.

But before Mother passed she called us to her deathbed and told us her wishes for us, her children, after she is gone.

Two weeks after Mother had passed, Father gave us up to Welfare. Here is where we all stayed until they found us a home.

Our own people didn’t want us because we were all too young. And when they did find us a home, Welfare placed my brothers and me into one home and the girls into another home.

We suffered without a mother, and with a father who didn’t want to keep us, his own children. And how we were all placed into homes in different places.

We still loved Father and still saw him anyway, until his death.

Then the blow and hurt from a drafted brother of ours. In a short time to say goodbye to anyone.

Now we’re all grown and living our own life with our families.

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The Love Mother Had For