"Jeb Bush, the former governor of Florida, revealed that his mother, former first lady Barbara Bush,
talked to him about Jesus Christ in their last meeting before she died last week.
Speaking before close to 1,500 attendees at his mother's funeral at St. Martin's Episcopal Church in Houston on Saturday, Bush said that in their last visit together, they talked about their Christian faith.
"Jeb, I believe in Jesus and he is my savior," she told him when he asked her about her feelings on death.
During a C-Span interview in 2013, the then-88-year-old Bush affirmed that she is a "huge believer
in a loving God."
"And I don't have a fear of death for my precious George or for myself because I know that there is a great God," she added, referring to her husband.
During the service, six of Bush's grandchildren, all women, each read a section from the Book of Proverbs, beginning with the lines, "Her children rise up and call her happy; her husband too, and he praises her: 'Many women have done excellently, but you surpass them all.'"
Proverbs 31:28,29/CP
Speaking before close to 1,500 attendees at his mother's funeral at St. Martin's Episcopal Church in Houston on Saturday, Bush said that in their last visit together, they talked about their Christian faith.
"Jeb, I believe in Jesus and he is my savior," she told him when he asked her about her feelings on death.
During a C-Span interview in 2013, the then-88-year-old Bush affirmed that she is a "huge believer
"And I don't have a fear of death for my precious George or for myself because I know that there is a great God," she added, referring to her husband.
During the service, six of Bush's grandchildren, all women, each read a section from the Book of Proverbs, beginning with the lines, "Her children rise up and call her happy; her husband too, and he praises her: 'Many women have done excellently, but you surpass them all.'"
Proverbs 31:28,29/CP
