Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Aug 18, 2008
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After booking my 90-year-old mother on a flight from Florida to Nevada, I called the airline to go over her needs. The woman representative listened patiently as I requested a wheelchair and an attendant for my mother because of her arthritis and impaired vision. I also
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ELVIS GROWING UP
Elvis once said, "We were an affectionate family. My mother was the most wonderful person in the world. I always felt a little bit lonely--maybe a better word would be 'incomplete'--when I was little. But I could tell my mother about it, how I felt and then the feeling would go
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Contributed by Rodney Byrd on Jul 12, 2001
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A church educational worker was sent to a community once to help a Sunday school take a religious census. In one home, he was asking the mother of the house the routine questions: “Are you a church member?”, “What church?”, etc. When he came to the question, “Are you a Christian?” the lady
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 14, 2007
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Three children left home and worked so hard that they didn’t spend much time with their parents. The father passes a way and they all went home. They were all very prosperous and had accumulated vast amounts of money. They discussed what gifts they were going to give their elderly mother. The
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 2, 2008
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Some years ago there was a shipwreck off the coast of the Pacific Northwest. A crowd of fishermen in a nearby village gathered to watch the ship as it was smashed on the rocks. A lifeboat was sent to the rescue, and after a terrific struggle the rescuers came back with all of the shipwrecked
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Contributed by Martin Wiles on May 5, 2002
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Some of you may have seen the movie Santa Claus. It is the story of a little boy whose father becomes Santa Claus. The trouble is, he can’t get his mother and her new husband who is a psychologist to believe it. It begins to cause trouble in the family. One day, his stepfather is trying to get him
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 13, 2002
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When the U.S. Mint reissued two-dollar bills, I thought they might someday become collectors’ items.
I went to the bank and picked up a hundred, serially numbered and still in their original band.
On my next trip to my parents’ house, I gave the $200 to my mother and said, "Take good care of
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Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Jan 31, 2010
There was a tyrannical husband who demanded that his wife conform to rigid standards of his own choosing. She was to do certain things for him as wife, mother, and homemaker. In time she came to hate him as much as she hated his list of rules. He died and in time she came to love another man whom
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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The one word that epitomizes Christian motherhood is “love.” Her every action is prompted by love for her children. Someone once wrote: “Mothers write on the hearts of their children what the cruel hand of the world cannot erase.” It has been estimated that by the time a child reaches age eighteen,
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 1, 2004
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I love the story about the little girl who, shortly after her young playmate was tragically killed, went to comfort her friend’s mother. When she returned home, her father asked her what she had said to the grieving mother.
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