Born to Win
Mary A. Richardson
$12.95 paperback, 144 pages
Published: 2002
ISBN 1880849-44-5

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Mary A. Richardson began writing her autobiography at the age of eighty. Her journey takes the reader through the cotton and tobacco fields where her parents were sharecroppers in the bygone days of the horse and buggy, oil lamps, iceboxes, washtubs, and wood stoves. Through Mary's amazingly vivid memories, we experience the gathering of neighbors for hog killings, the fellowship of women doing their quilting, and the rituals of death and burial in the early 1900s. Just as many of us have experienced the "highs and low" of life, so, too, has Mary Richardson. She shares with us the joys of her life, as well as the sorrows - sorrows many of us will never know. Living through the Great Depression, losing her eyesight, experiencing blackout attacks, and being hospitalized could have made her a bitter woman. They didn't. Despite personal tragedies, she learned to rise above the obstacles of life. Her ultimate call to the ministry and her journey of faith and spiritual courage contain lessons for us all. For when Mary A. Richardson realized that in the midst of darkness God was on her side, she knew she was truly Born to Win.