Margurette Robison, who is 88, lives in near Tupelo.
Her morning routine was to start every day reading her local paper, the Tupelo Daily Journal. But she decided she could find something better to do.
She recalls, “I’d just heard David Jeremiah say to copy the book of Romans. So, I did that, and it was good. Then he said he’d copied the whole Bible, and I said, ‘Well, I’ll start this. I’ll go back, pick up the Gospels, and go through the New Testament. If I don’t get any farther than that, that’s good.’”
Every morning at 5:30 Robinson would rise and begin her handwriting mission. She would write until she got tired, that was usually one page of scripture, perhaps two. She estimates she averaged one-and-a-half pages a day.
Robinson said her mission started as a selfish thing to do, but after a while it turned into something different, something very beneficial.
She said, “The Bible is a very convicting book. I’d memorized scripture before, but as far as knowing the background of the scripture, my daughters knew much more about it than I did. Doing this was convicting. It’s been such a blessing. It gave me something to do, and it was like having a good devotional every day.“
Robison said she wasn’t trying to call attention to herself but believes others could benefit from the practice.
“It’s God’s holy word,” she said. “It’s God speaking to you through scripture.“