Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Jun 6, 2024
                
                
                
                    [010]  A MESSAGE FROM A POEM - A TRIBUTE TO OUR MOTHERS - MOTHERS' DAY
I was asked to write a poem for Mothers’ Day and this is it.  I forget the context of it now but it had something to do with a children’s group in a church.
ORIGINS AND IMPLICATIONS OF MOTHERS’ DAY
The origins,
                    
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                    Contributed by Walter Rogers on Apr 3, 2007
                
                
                
                    3.	Christopher Reeve 
a.	Superman brought fame
b.	Man of Steel – Hero #1 (A hero is someone who commits a courageous actions with ou considering the consequences, someone who is larger than life)
c.	Horse Accident, Memorial Day 1995, on 3rd of 15 jumps, horse stopped and he fell, breaking his neck.
                    
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                    Contributed by David Selleck on Oct 26, 2006
                
                
                
                    Story of Anne.
Anne Lamott, a fellow messy Christian describes perfectly what happens when Jesus pursues us.  In her book Traveling Mercies, Anne recounts her conversion to Jesus.  Things were not going well in her life: addicted to cocaine and alcohol, involved in an affair that produced a child
                    
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                    Contributed by Joel Vicente on Feb 14, 2005
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Illustrate Fact: In 1907 Ana Jarvis, from Philadelphia, began a campaign to establish a national Mother’s Day. Ms. Jarvis persuaded her mother’s church in Grafton, West Virginia to celebrate Mother’s Day on the second anniversary of her mother’s death, the 2nd Sunday of May. By the next year
                    
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                    Contributed by Randy Bennett on Aug 17, 2004
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    In “The Matrix,” Keanu Reeves plays a character named Thomas Anderson. He is also a computer hacker that goes by the name “Neo.” He is introduced to the Matrix and Morpheus tries to convince Neo that he is “the one.” Neo spends the entire movie denying that he is the one, a denial that is fueled by
                    
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                    Lord,
Thank you for this Thanksgiving Day. Thank you for all the many many blessings you bestow on us each and everyday. Thank you for the little things we over look from day to day. Lord, I pray you feed the ones today less fortunate. Draw up real close to them and let them know how very precious
                    
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                    Contributed by Danny Janes on Dec 18, 2012
                
                
                
                    “The Gift of a Child,” by Mary Ann Matthews.
“Christmas comes at different times for me every year.  I never know precisely when it will arrive or what will produce its spirit, but I can always be sure that it will happen.
Last year Christmas happened while I was visiting my parents.  The day was
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 31, 2008
                
                
                
                    Quote from Anne Lamott
"I’ve seen prayers answered.  But often, in my experience, if you get what you pray for, you’ve really shortchanged yourself."
What an adventure prayer is!  To see how the Lord answers our prayers goes beyond our wildest imaginations! (Eph 3:20 NIV)  Now to him who is able
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 17, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Dr. Anne Catherine Speckard, of the University of Minnesota, reports the following long-term (five to ten years) consequences of abortion:
·	81 percent reported preoccupation with the aborted child
·	73 percent reported flashbacks of the abortion experience
·	54 percent recalled nightmares related
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 22, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Anne Sullivan was born at Feeding Hills, Massachusetts, in poverty, in affliction.  She was half-blind.  When her mother died she was sent to the poorhouse.  As was common in those days when a person didn’t have any relatives that would take them into their home. 
-    Then, at the Perkins
                    
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                    Contributed by Tony Dicostanzo on Oct 21, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Ann Landers Columnist receives an average of 10,000 letter each month, nearly all of them with problems.  She was asked if there was one predominant theme in the letters she received,  She said,  “the one problem above all others seems to be fear.  People are afraid
                    
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                    Ann Landers Columnist receives an average of 10,000 letter each month, nearly all of them with problems. She was asked if there was one predominant theme in the letters she received, She said, “the one problem above all others seems to be fear. People are afraid of losing their Job, their wealth
                    
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                    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Dec 3, 2007
                
                
                
                    Anne Lamont was addicted to coke and alcohol, involved in a messy affair that produced a child whom she had just aborted, and she watched her best friend die of cancer. Sometimes Anne would visit a small church nearby sitting in the back listening to the singing but always leaving before the
                    
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                    A teenager once wrote this letter to Ann Landers:
“I am a 15 year old and my biggest problem is my mother. All she does is nag, nag, nag. From morning till night. It is, turn off the TV. Do your homework. Wash behind your neck. Stand up straight. Go clean your room. How can I get her off my case?”
                    
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"The warning is triggered by the total solar eclipse of Aug. 21, nicknamed America's Eclipse. For the first time in almost 100 years, a total solar eclipse will be seen from coast to coast in our nation. People are preparing to mark this significant event with viewing parties at exclusive
                    
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                    Contributed by Mark  Beaird on Nov 2, 2000
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Ann Landers had this to say about the letters that she has received over the years.  "I’ve learned plenty-including, most meaningfully, what Leo Rosten had in mind when he said, ’Each of us is a little lonely, deep inside, and cries to be understood.’  I have learned how it is with stumbling,
                    
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                    Contributed by Melvin Newland on Mar 13, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Ann Landers had an interesting letter in her column.  It was from a girl who was writing about her uncle & aunt.  She said, "My uncle was the tightest man I’ve ever known.  All his life, every time he got paid he took $20 out of his paycheck & put it under his mattress.
Then he got sick & was
                    
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