And if you are my friend on Facebook you need to go to my Wall and check out the dog video I posted last night - it is an absolute riot!
Before telling about my Mother's Day I want to share about a couple of past Mother's Days. Mom and Dad were church planters with their first church in Atlantic, Iowa, 60ish years ago. Dad was very excited about his first service in Atlantic which was on Mother's Day and if I remember the story correctly when Dad looked out at the congregation he saw three old men - that was it. No women.
Then growing up one of the things I liked that Dad did in the church in Urbandale and possibly the church in Pella was have four friendly contests with the mothers.
1. The youngest mother
2. The oldest mother
3. The newest mother - I think this was one of the categories
4. The mother with the largest family at church that Sunday - or who had the family member that came the longest distance
And if I remember correctly the most competitve category was the oldest mother :) We had some very elderly ladies in the church in Urbandale - and they were proud of it on that Sunday.
On to my Mother's Day. Mother's Day is a "different" day for me because I'm a stepmother, I did not give birth - but I definitely helped raise three kids :) I watch John Hagee on Sunday morning before my church and today Diana Hagee preached and did a great job sharing some funny family stories and getting a good point across.
I got to church and spent some time greeting different people and then Greg grabbed me to show me where I would be for the next two Sundays doing craft time for our Waves children's group (K-3rd grade) during church. It should be challenging to come up with a craft for the two Sundays and fun with the kids. I'm going to pray about it tonight and ask God to help me develop their craft. I'm going to need extra guidance after seeing today's craft - beautiful tissue flowers for mothers - wow...................
We had a couple of ladies share what made their mothers Godly mothers - which were great to listen to. My mom was definitely - and still is - a Godly mother and I'm thankful for the way both she and my dad raised me.
Greg spoke today and had a very good message for mothers / wifes / women which I will briefly recap below but I want to share the rest of my day first. All ladies received a flower to plant and a small, indoor herb garden to grow. As Greg said, " ladies, you will be blessed with basil, etc.". I looked at Kris sitting next to me and shared with others that this ought to be interesting since I nuke my meals :) If my herbs grow I'll be able to give my frozen dinners some pizzazz.
I had decided I was going to treat myself to a movie - Fast Five - and had to hustle from the south side to Jordan Creek Town Center where I had a gift card for the movie theater. And I brought Dude with me to go to Build-A-Bear Workshop to talk to them about Dude after the movie. So I'm zipping over to the mall and have to go to the bathroom which is past the concession stand at the movie theater - then back to get something to eat for "lunch" - then into the theater before the movie starts at 12:05 pm. I go flying to the kid to tear my movie stub and he informs me that I'm on the wrong side of the movie theater - I said I need to use the rest room and then will be back out to get something to eat and go to the other side - with a stuffed dog in a plastic bag.
Again - I was dumb-founded at the cost of food and decided on what I wanted. I have never gotten food at this theater before so I didn't realize the concession stand was more like a buffet line where I had to pick up what I wanted and then move down the line to pay - oh please. Then off to Fast Five to stare at Dwayne Johnson and Vin Diesel for two hours. Oh ya and watching them drive the cars fast was pretty awesome too - when I was younger I wanted to be a stunt driver. I'm sure Mike would tell you he thought that's how I always drove..........
This is Dude that the kids made for me after Mike died and all three of them put a heart in him. I have slept with Dude every night since they gave him to me except for the two nights of my Girls Weekend last October - so he was getting a little smushed looking - he needed fluffing or something. So in I walk to Build-A-Bear looking for someone to help me and pulled Dude out of my bag. She takes me to the "shower" area and showed me how I could use a brush to fluff him up. I bought a little brush so I can fluff Dude when necessary at home.
Now - recapping Greg's sermon: Building a Godly Mother / Wife
Proverbs 31: 10-31
1. Be devoted to your husband (verses 11, 12)
2. Passionate about your household/family (verses 13-22, 24, 28-29)
3. Fears God/is saved (verses 26, 30)
What was awesome that Greg did was that he told women that were not mothers - for whatever reason - this is what you should strive for. I know I did #1 and #2 when Mike was a live. And I know I am okey doke with #3.
Another thing Greg did was tell men that were not married that this was the type of woman they should pray that God leads them to for a wife and mother of their children.
Bulls down by 4 - come on guys!!!!!!!!!!!!
