“Strength and dignity are her clothing, and she laughs at the time to come. She opens her mouth with wisdom, and the teaching of kindness is on her tongue. She looks well to the ways of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness. Her children rise up and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her: ‘Many women have done excellently, but you surpass them all.’” Proverbs 31:25-29
“She opens her mouth with wisdom, and the teaching of kindness is on her tongue. She looks well to the ways of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness.” Proverbs 31:26-27
My Mom – She was the VERY BEST!
Walk His Way Revisited
There were a lot of Bible verses to choose from, but these and so many more truly depict and describe my mom’s rock solid faith and character. My mom was also very pretty (inside and out), kind, thoughtful, gentle, slow to anger, patient, a good listener, and hardworking – inside and outside the home. She really was “ahead of her time” regarding daily exercise, nutrition, and truly understanding and applying biblical principles to daily living. Church and God weren’t just Sunday morning at our house! My mom believed in serving at our church – she was a Sunday School teacher for many years, and helped with VBS in the summer.
As a family, we had great summer vacation times, mostly camping at various places. One of my favorite adult memories is when I was about 21 and had moved out of the house and my mom and I took group ice skating lessons together. We had fun and laughed a lot doing that together. My mom was always there for me too, in good times and bad, and always with a patient, listening, loving ear.
I have wished many times that I could be more like her regarding being gentle, slow to anger, and patient. I do not have those qualities but, with God’s help, I am working on them!!
My mom was promoted to heaven in 1979 when she was only 51 years old I was only 26 and it was one of the worst years of my life. As chemotherapy was administered, I felt so helpless watching her be so sick and fade away as the ovarian cancer took over her body. She was gone in one year–much too soon. Many people loved and missed her. I was wracked with grief at the funeral, crying and not talking from shock. Other than having to be with people at my job, over the next year I kept to myself, spending lots of time with my dog and immediate family in order to process the grief and heal. I lived close to the cemetery, and spent times sitting at her gravestone, sometimes talking to her or just sitting quietly there.
I still miss my mother very much and wish she was still here, alive on earth. But I know where Mom is, and because my dad, sister, brother and I have professed Christ as our Lord and Savior, we will see her again one day – a happy reunion!!
Happy Mother’s Day–I love you Mom.
Father, thank You for the mother You gave me. Thank You for bringing her to Yourself. Amen.
Thank God for the mothers we can remember with so much love and never stop missing.
Thank you….this is the first Mother’s Day without my mother-in-law, and as we put roses on her grave this morning the Holy Spirit gave me words of comfort to speak to my husband….this was the first Mother’s Day mom would spend in heaven with her glorified mother who had not been the most loving person on earth, but would be full of perfect love in heaven, it brought us such peace as we know we also will be with them in heaven one day.