May10.02: Light For The Day - "Mother's Day"

-- 2 Timothy 1:3,5
"I thanks God ... when I call to remembrance
the genuine faith that in you, which dwelt first
in your grand mother .... and your mother....

--------------------------
No man is poor who has a godly mother.
- Abraham Lincoln

------------------------
"Mother"

She has been God's laborer to keep me safe and sound
She has kept me in sight, calmed my fears in the night
She has argued and fought,
She has paid and she's bought.

She's been sick and she's been feeble
Never mean, yet sometimes disagreeable.
She's given love like there's no tomorrow
If she didn't have enough, she would have borrowed.

There is nothing I could ever do to repay
Except do God's work, and hope and pray.
... I hope she will one day see how close
I wish her and I to be.
And let her know there will be no other
She'll always be my beloved Mother.

-- David L. Kriss

---------------------
"Thank You Mother"

Thank You For Being There - Thank You for Love.
Thank You for telling of God up above.
Thanks for the diapers, the washing, the folding,
The changing, repinings and all of the Holding -
The Rocking, the Singing, the Healing, the Smile -
The endurance it took to cope all the while,

With so many children, so many... you know -
I think I'd have quit not continued to go
On with the Caring, the Loving, the Giving,
The unceasing frustrations of everyday living
With all of your children...

The cooking, the cleaning, the sewing and work.
Honor is due You for You did not shirk.
You did not cease and You did not run.
You did not give up as I might have done.

And so - For those Hours, those Days, all those Years
I Thank You Dear Mother... Forgive me the Tears,
The Heartaches, and All,
The Anger, the Rudeness, The Big and the Small.

May Mother's Day find Your Heart Full to the brim
With Peace, Joy, and Love. May nothing seem grim.
God Bless You Mother...
May your heart know how Dear -
You are to me
Now and each day of the year...

-- M.Garren

-----------------------------
-- Exodus 20:12 (NIV) (the Fifth Commandment)
"Honor your father and your mother,
so that you may live long in the land
the LORD your God is giving you."