n his often-told story, back in 2001 she was deeply distressed over his religious status. As he puts it, she prayed “to be given whatever suffering needed so that I would be granted sufficient grace to revert.”
That is, she’d asked God to afflict her if her son would be ‘saved’. Not long after, she was diagnosed with stomach cancer, and died.
At her funeral, Voris recalls, he spoke to her coffin: “Mom, what you went through for me, you will not have gone through in vain.”