May 8.01: Light For The Day - "A Tribute To Mother"

 

-- Exodus 20:12 (NIV)

 "Honor your father and your mother,
  so that you may may live long in the land
  the LORD your God is giving you.
              --The Fifth Commandment
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"M-O-M"

 

     M-O-M spelled backwards is still M-O-M.
     For Mom is always Mom is always Mom.
     She never gets too turned around to be
     Though she gets busy as a bee.

 

"KIND LINES"

 

     She fills my little world
     With lots and lots of joy.
     She knows my special dish
     And my favorite toy.

 

     She teaches me the things
     That I should do each day,
     To read God's Holy Word,
     To obey and always pray.

 

     She has a gentle voice
     And a tender touch.
     When I am really hurt
     She helps the pain so much.

 

     You know, of course, this poem
     Must be about my mother--
     For could these lines so kind
     Be spoken of another?

 

                   -- David A. Olds

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                 "WHO IS MOTHER?"

 

Mother is half of the Father/Mother team, the one
who gave birth to you as a child. When she first
held you in her arms, she fell madly in love with
you!

 

She is the one that changed your diaper, gave you
your bottle, bathed and dressed you.  She is the
one who tended to you when you were sick, wishes
she could have bore your pain, but unable to even
share it with you. There is none like a Mother.

 

If you have children, then you know what it's like
to be a Mother. Often, it's a tough job, with unruly
children, and many heartaches before they are
grown.

 

Sometimes a Mother is lucky that she has well-
disciplined children, but only because she has
done her best in order for them to be well-adjusted
teenagers and later adults.

 

Mostly, Mother sits and worries that she hasn't
done her best with her children, especially if they
don't turn out as she thought they should, with
all the training she had given them.

 

Mother is a human being, capable of making
mistakes. She is not perfect, just as none of us are
perfect. But she is the one that we picture as being
perfect during our childhood.

 

As we become older, we realize that Mothers are
capable of right and wrong ways of doing things,
missing the mark, just as much as the next person.
But she is still Mother.

 

The thing that sets her apart is her everlasting love
for her children and her intent that they lead normal,
well-adjusted lives.

 

Not until we become adults, do we really begin to
appreciate WHO Mother really is. She has nurtured
you through your childhood, put up with your sassy
ways and times of being lazy during your teenage
years, and cried through your becoming an adult.
But Mother was always there to encourage you
when you made a mistake, although sometimes
it's hard not to show disappointment {I am sure
I've done that}.

 

As we grow older and have our own children,
we realize that Mother was a very strong person,
and we begin to wonder can we ever fit into her
shoes. No, we wear our 'own shoes'........
we can never do things the same as our Mother,
although she has given us the pattern from which
to build.

 

IF we have a Godly Mother {I did!}, then we can
bring up our children in the ways of God, so that
when they grow older we have the assurance that
some day they will live for God.     After all,

 

Proverbs 22:6 says "Train up a child in the ways
he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart
from it."

 

Mothers are special.
Is your Mother living today?
If so, try to make this Mother's Day the most
wonderful day of her life! Show her you care if only
by telling her you love her.   Take her out to eat,
take her flowers, but show up on Mother's Day,
if possible.

 

You will never know how much this helps Mother
to realize her family still cares.  Sometimes we get
busy doing the usual things in life, and lose sight
of the most important aspects - loving our family.

 

And Mother happens to be where that 'family' began.
Without Mother, there would never have been a
family. You might also tell Daddy that you are so
happy that he chose Mother to be his wife.
Make his eyes light up as well!!

 

             M - Messenger, relaying God's Word
             O - Outpouring of genuine Love
             T - Trusts in God
             H - Heart set on things above
             E - Earthly saint
             R - Rescuer of the Wayward

 

                                                  -- Barbara Sanders
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-- Proverbs 23:22 (TEV)

   "Listen to you father;
        without him you would not exit.
    When your mother is old,
        show her your appreciation."