Wednesday, May 5, 2010
"A Tribute To My Mother "
“Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days
may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
” Exodus 20:12
"Her
children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he
praiseth her." Proverbs 31:28
The following devotional was written by Mr. J.
C. Penny in the Christian Herald, during the 1920’s:
Of my many recollections of my mother’s
beautiful spirit, perhaps the foremost is of her patience and next of
her unselfishness. Occasionally some friend or neighbor meeting
me on the street would give me a stick of candy which I took
home. After it was divided, Mother’s share was placed on the
clock shelf with the comment, “I will save that for the
children.” To me, for whom the rare sweet was a great treasure,
Mother’s act represented a supreme sacrifice and her self-denial and
unselfishness left a deep impression upon my young mind.
Loyal always, loyal to her husband, her
children, her friends! Is it to be wondered at that children
reared in such homes should have memories that bind them with golden
chains not only in grateful affection to their parents’ memories, but
to the principles for which such fathers and such mothers stood
firm! Certain it is that when desperate sorrow came upon me, the
recollection of my father’s and my mother’s faith in the righteousness
of a Supreme Being was the deciding influence that carried my
hesitating feet past the crossroads—past the place of despair.
On the day dedicated to the memory of our
mothers—on the day when we wear the white carnation, so fittingly an
emblem of our mothers’ gracious lives, let us not only dwell with
ungrateful affection upon our treasured memories but let us ponder,
also, upon the influences which we are passing on to our
children. Are we so living that our children may have
recollections of our faith, our love, our courage, that will be as
anchors to their souls when they, perhaps, are tempest-tossed and hard
pressed by life’s storms? All I ask for my children is that their
memories may be as high and as fine as are mine of my father and my
mother.
(The text verse and study verses have been added
to reinforce the truth
of this devotion.)
Study verses - Judges
5:7; I Samuel 2:17-19; Psalm 113:9; Proverbs 4:3; 6:20; 10:1; 15:20;
Proverbs 19:26; 23:22, 25; Proverbs 30:11, 17; Matthew 1:18; 2:11;
15:4, 6; John 19:25-27; Acts 1:14
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