"To live a Christian life in these changing, fast-paced times, we need the proper balance. She told an interviewer in 2014 that Christian women nowadays must focus on balance in their lives. Wilson, a longtime companion of Billy Graham. She is now married to childhood friend Jim Wilson, the son of T.W. There are 19 grandchildren, many of whom are carrying on the Graham tradition of Christian ministry and mission work, and numerous great-grandchildren. But they have stayed in close contact, and there were regular family gatherings and short trips with their parents, both here and abroad, as long as the elder Grahams were physically able. Today, the Graham children are scattered.
Who followed the weather patterns almost as closely as he did world events," she wrote. The one who was always a farmer at heart. Who loved his dogs and his cat. "When I think of him, I don’t think of Billy Graham, the public figure. I think of my Daddy. Next to my desire to please the Lord, I wanted to please him.”Īnne Graham Lotz has acknowledged that Billy Graham's work often took him away from home as she was growing up.īut in a statement she released the day her father died, he does not come across as a distant figure in her life. “His very presence caused me to feel shame if I had been naughty. “We knew that he loved us more than anything in the world, and he demonstrated this love in many open, outward expressions,” she says. MORE: Billy Graham's life and death: All our coverage “Daddy, although away from home much of the time during my formative years, commanded a deep respect,” Gigi Graham says in her book, “Passing It On,” which she wrote as a 50th anniversary gift to her parents in 1993. It is that unconditional love the Graham children refer to when they speak of their parents, and of the solid foundation Ruth and Billy Graham laid for what they hoped would be their children’s intimate relationship with God. Three weeks later, Franklin Graham committed his life to Christ. “I remember my father saying, ‘Franklin, your mother and I love you very much, and we want you to know that no matter what you do in life, no matter where you go, our home will always be your home.’”
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