I am including something written and sent by Anne Graham Lotz this week. She is sharing about her mother's praying and Bible reading routine. What a mother! And we can see the 'side effects' of her prayers and study in their families' lives!
I didn't have a mother like that. Nor am I a mother like Ruth Graham!
One thing I know about God: He doesn't like us comparing ourselves one to another. "I'm better than......". "I'm not as good as......" She has a better.......or worse........"
It's Mothers' Day! Time to celebrate! Ruth Graham; Anne Graham Lotz; my mother; your mother; us! God loves and wants to take care of each of us! Happy Mothers' Day!
| As a teenager growing up, my room in our house was directly over Mother’s. At night I could see the lights from her room reflected on the trees outside my window. When I slipped downstairs hoping to talk to her a few minutes, I would find her shapely form bent beside her bed in prayer. It was useless to wait for her to rise because she would be there for hours on end, so I would trudge back up to my room. And no matter how early I awoke in the morning, I would see those lights from her window once again reflected on the trees outside. When I tumbled down the stairs, I would find her seated at her big, flat-top desk, earnestly studying one of the fourteen different translations of the Bible spread out around her. My mother chose to make abiding in Christ one of the priorities of her life. Mother’s abiding was rooted in a love relationship with Jesus that was the secret of her life. As a result of her abiding, and the obedience that was integrated into it, the hallmark of Mother’s life was joy. Her face radiated it! Her eyes sparkled with it! And I’m left to wonder . . . what outward evidence of my inner relationship with Jesus do my children see? *** |