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I'm confident that He will give you the necessary grace
to convey that honor, starting with the very fact that God breathed
life into you as He knit you together in your mother's womb.
"Honor your father and your mother" (Exodus 20:12). "Her children arise and call her blessed" (Proverbs 31:28).
"Mother's
Day" will be celebrated here in the United States on Sunday. This is a
day when our country acknowledges the sacrificial contributions mothers
make in the lives of their children. The theme of honoring our mothers
also resonates in the pulpits across our land on Sunday. I am not
aware if other countries have such a day designated but wherever you
live, today's message is pertinent. I hope each mother reading this
will be honored by the expression of the daily verses; her children
rise up and call her "blessed."
My Mom was gloriously
promoted to heaven in November 2005 and Brooksyne's in October 2002, so
we both write from that perspective. Today in this message we want to
rise up and call our mothers "blessed."
The command to honor
our father and mother is a timeless one. I believe it is applicable all
through childhood. We quoted Ephesians 6:1 often during Ester's
childhood years: "Children obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right."
But honor toward our parents is applicable after we reach adulthood and
the attitude of this command still pertains even though our parents may
now be deceased.
Today I urge each reader to rise up and call
your mother blessed and to express honor toward her in your words and
in your actions. For most of our readers this comes very naturally out
of your gratitude for a loving and caring mother. But some of you have
great pain from your upbringing and your relationship is far less than
God's ideal. Perhaps even now there is an underlying heartache in your
present relationship with your mother. But God's command to honor our
father and mother has no exclusionary clause. I'm confident that He
will give you the necessary grace to convey that honor, starting with
the very fact that God breathed life into you as He knit you together
in your mother's womb.
If your parents are living be sure to
express your love and appreciation to them. Honor expressed toward
them serves as a solid foundational base for all human honor.
Be encouraged today,
Stephen & Brooksyne Weber
Daily prayer:Father,
each spring as we see tiny featherless fledglings pressed against their
mothers in the hollow of their family nest, we're reminded of the human
love children experience from their parents' safekeeping. We thank You
for the love and care You extend to us through the preordained parents
who've cared for us from birth to independence. Thank You for their
model of love, sacrifice, duty, protection, and many other virtuous
qualities needed to properly raise their families. Their example
greatly influenced the way we raise our own children.
We
also pray for those whose relationship with their parent is a role
reversal where they must act as the parent when their own parent
behaves as a needy or defiant child. May Your multiplied mercies
sustain these caregivers in their ongoing difficult role so that, above
all, You are honored and they find deep peace in the midst of the
turmoil. Thank You, Father, for our human family, our spiritual
family, and for our heavenly family that awaits our arrival. In the
name of Christ Jesus Your Son we pray, amen.
Brooksyne's Note:
Thank you so much for your thoughts, well wishes, and prayers for a
speedy recovery from my broken ankle. It certainly has changed my
independence to go and do as I normally would. Being in the bedroom at
night seems quite normal; spending the entire day recovering in the bed
is another matter. Of course, these physical trials serve many purposes
in our lives. I am reminded through this Daily Encouragement ministry
that there are many who are bedridden month after month, year after
year. We've heard from a number of our readers who endure my temporal
physical lifestyle in a permanent way. My heart is touched in a deeper
sense when I feel, in part, some of the limitations and frustrations
they must deal with day after day after day.
Stephen is
certainly being stretched as he is now preparing my meals (cereal,
grapes, juice, bananas, peanut butter & jelly – that's about the
extent of his "culinary" skills.) But he does it in love and thus far
no complaints, so I'm very grateful for his attentiveness. Ester has
helped filled the ice bags many times and is doing her part as well.
Again, I thank you for your concerns on my behalf.
I
regularly make this appeal and suggestion: Write your parents a written
tribute of your love and appreciation for them! Heres a page I have prepared.
Yesterday my brother Pat and his wife Laverne stopped for some peach pie Brooksyne prepared hours before her fall on Wed. They were on their way home from a minister's conference in Delaware.
Pat
and Laverne live in the Lehigh Valley about 100 miles from us. He is
excited about an old riding mower I gave him that he plans to fix up so
he stopped to pick it up.
We
visited Jeanette Steudler on Tuesday and featured her azaleas and
rhododenrons that lined her back yard. In this photo she is pictured
in front of a very large oak tree that she planted as a tiny sapling
over 60 years ago. What a lovely, smiling mother she is to four sons
(her youngest went to be with the Lord right after he graduated from
high school. He battled cancer from his childhood years until the Lord
called him home.)
"A Mighty Fortress Is Our God" (German)
This was arved into the mantle above a huge fireplace at Jeanette's home. Many of our readers correctly responded when I placed this up Wednesday as a quiz!
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