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                    YOU’RE THE BEST
My mother said to me, "If you become a soldier you’ll be a general; if you become a monk you’ll end up as the pope."  Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.  
SOURCE:  Pablo Picasso, Spanish artist. Citation:  Celebrating Mother: A Book
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 5, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    CAN YOU HEAR THEM?
You too, my mother, read my rhymes, 
For love of forgotten times, 
And you may chance, to hear once more, 
The little feet along the floor
SOURCE:  Robert Louis Stevenson.  Citation:  The
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 5, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    BABYSITTER CONFESSION
"The one thing I’ve never admitted to any baby-sitter, because I’ve barely admitted it to myself, is that I don’t want her to be everything to my children that I am.  I want her to be more than I am and everything I am not.  I want her to be consistently cheerful and
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 5, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    GREAT THINGS ABOUT MOMS 
They rarely refuse to take their kids to the emergency room. 
She understands that you’re  not ready to quit sucking your thumb.
She understands that you can’t give up your blankie yet.
It’s not cheating if she helps you write your paper.
Only mothers can get all the
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 5, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    MOM’S TEN COMMANDMENTS
Sick people belong in bed.
Thank-you notes, thank-you notes, thank-you notes.
 
Everyone needs a nap everyday.
Get your hair off your face.
Stand up staight.
Look people in the eye when you meet them.
Good table manners are important in case you get invited to a rich
                    
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                    Contributed by A. Todd Coget on May 9, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    A four-year-old and a six-year-old presented their mom with a  houseplant.
They had used their own money to buy it and she was thrilled.
The older of them said with a sad face, "There was a bouquet at the flower shop that we wanted to give you.  It was real pretty but it was too expensive.  It had
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 9, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    NOBLE CAREER
There is no career more noble than that of motherhood at its best. 
There are no possibilities greater and in no other sphere does failure bring more serious penalties. To attempt this task unprepared and untrained is tragic, and its results affect generations to come.  On the other
                    
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                    EVEN IF IT’S DARK
He was a strong man facing an enemy beyond his strength. He young wife had become gravely ill, then suddenly passed away, leaving the big man alone with a wide-eyed, flaxen-haired girl, not quite five years old. 
The service in the village chapel was simple, and heavy with
                    
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                    Someone (Hugh Black) has put it this way: “At the end of life we shall not be asked how much pleasure we had in it, but how much service we gave in it; not how full it was of success, but how full it was of sacrifice; not how happy we were; not how ambition was gratified,
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Let me close with a true story of a humble black pastor in the inner city of Chicago who was diagnosed with terminal cancer. 
“He was in his late sixties and had been a minister throughout his adult life. His love for the Lord was so profound that it was reflected in everything he said. When he
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 8, 2005
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    The preacher was wired for sound with a lapel mike, and as he preached, he moved briskly about the platform, jerking the mike cord as he went. Then he moved to one side, getting wound up in the cord and nearly tripping before jerking it again. After several circles and jerks, a little girl in the
                    
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                    Contributed by Jay Winters on Apr 2, 2009
                
                
                
                    There was once a preacher who was traveling between cities.  He had lived in cities all of his life.  He could tell you how to find a good parking spot, what neighborhoods to avoid within the city, and how to avoid traffic by using the backstreets.  He was a smart guy with plenty of personality,
                    
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                    A little girl asked her Mom, “Where do human beings come from?”
Mom answered, “God made Adam and Eve and they had children, and so was all mankind made.”
Two days later the girl asked her Dad the same question.  Dad answered, “Many years ago there were monkeys from which the human race
                    
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                    Contributed by Tim Smith on Feb 19, 2012
                
                
                
                    A MOTHER'S CHRISTMAS PRAYER
On Christmas Day, Mike Nicholas, a tall and slim young man with dark hair was making his way south on I-85 just below High Point, NC trying to hitch a ride. For two years, he hadn't been home. His family had heard nothing from him. He and his mother had a disagreement
                    
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