Mother's Day: I Have Been Reminded

Do you wonder if they have developed sensitivity because of the role models they have had in the home? Are they sensitive because they saw that example every day?

Do you wonder if they are unselfish because they saw that every day as they were growing up? Do they keep their word because they were taught to do that in the home?

C. Paul wrote to Timothy & said, "God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love & of self discipline." (2 Timothy 1:7)

Not only has God given us the power, the confidence to live in the world in which He has placed us, He has also given us a spirit of love. Love can't be selfish. It just doesn't work that way.

We become unselfish because we learned it at home, because Mom & Dad reinforced it & we had before us a constant example of what it meant to be unselfish.

He has given us a spirit of self discipline which means we don't always do the things we want to do. Someplace along the way we were taught that this is right & this is wrong. And we do the things that are right, even though sometimes we may want to do the things that are wrong.

CONCL. I think that is what Mother's Day is all about. I don't think it has changed a whole lot. I think the requirements for the badge of motherhood are pretty much the same as they have always been.

ILL. Someone wrote: “If mothers could put all of their mothering experience on their resume, it would be a mile long.”

I watched my Mom fill out an application.

I looked at the line that asks about past professions.

I thought to myself, that space is too small

To write down what she's been, to cover it all.

She was a nurse when I fell and scraped my knee.

She was a maid when I didn't wipe my feet.

She was a designer when my clothes didn't match.

She was a tailor when my pants needed a patch.

She was a teacher when I asked a question.

She was a priest when I had a confession.

She was a psychiatrist when I came home crying.

She was a preacher when I got caught lying.

She was a singer when she sung me to sleep.

She was a lifeguard when she said the water's too deep.

There are many more, yet the best one to me,

She was a best friend and mine forever she'll be.

Marian N. Kehrley

Our environment may have changed, but a mother’s role has not. A real mother's love is the closest thing to God's love that we'll ever see. And that's what I have tried to describe.

"Timothy, you are a man of sincere faith, & that seed was planted there by your grandmother & your mother."

Oh, may God grant us such mothers & grand-mothers today who would plant the same seeds in the hearts & lives of their children.

INVITATION