Easter 5, Mother's Day: A Mother's Love
Easter 5, Mother's Day: A Mother's
Love
Scripture: 1 Samuel 1:9-11, 21-28 (Good News Bible)
Verses: 1 Samuel 26:28
26. Hannah said to him (Eli) the priest, "Excuse me, sir. Do you remember me? I am the woman you saw standing here, praying to the Lord. 27. I asked Him (the Lord) for this child, and He gave me what I asked for. 28. So I am dedicating him to the Lord. As long as he lives, he will belong to the Lord.
A Mother's Love
A second grade class was learning about magnets. When the teacher gave a test to cover the material, one of the questions on the test was; I begin with an "m", I have six letters and I pick up things; what am I? Over half the class wrote the following answer - "Mother!"
A London editor submitted a list of people to Winston Churchill who had been Churchill's teachers. Churchill returned the list with this comment, " You have omitted to mention the greatest of my teachers - my Mother."
A little boy, who was told by his mother that it was God who made people good, responded, "Yes, I know it is God, but Mother's help a lot."
Someone once asked Susanna Wesley which one of her eleven children she loved the most. She wisely replied, " I love the one who's sick until he's well, and the one who's away until he comes home,"
That reflects the love that Hannah had for her son Samuel, the son that she had prayed ardently to the Lord for and then dedicated him to the Lord for all the days of his life.
Out of the French Revolution comes the account of a mother who had wandered through the woods for three days with two of her children, trying to survive on roots and leaves. On the third day, she heard some soldiers approaching and quickly hid herself and the children behind some bushes. The sergeant in charge prodded the bushes to see what was stirring behind them. When he saw the starving woman and children, he immediately gave them a loaf of brown bread. The mother took it eagerly, broke it into two pieces and gave one piece to each of the children. " She has kept none for herself," the sergeant said. "Because she is not hungry?" a soldier asked. "Because she is a Mother," the sergeant replied.
A Mother's Love Her love is like an island in life's ocean, vast and wide, A peaceful, quiet shelter for the wind, rain and tide. > 'Tis bound on the north by Hope, by Patience on the west By tender Counsel on the south, and on the east by Rest. > Above it like a beacon light shine Faith, and Truth, and Prayer; And through the changing scenes of life, I find a haven there.
Happy Mother's Day to our Mothers and Grandmothers,
Rev. Wayne