Mothers Day Remembering.....
As Mother's Day rolls around, I am reminded of past Mothers Days There are so many to think about. Mothers Day 1975, my mom got a bedroom suite from Home Furniture. Someone sold it to her for two hundred fifty dollars. It was an antique quarter sawn oak sled bed with the six foot head board a dresser and a nightstand. It now sits in my home today. I remember us painting the bed and using antique white and staining and I took an art brush and painted the scroll work green., It looked like leaves and this was 1975 It was painted again in 1987 and in 2004, my husband and I stripped all of that paint off of the bed back to the oak finish.
Mothers Day 1982- As a young woman in my 20's I was invited to speak at the Mothers Day program at Mt. Zion Baptist Church. The program was Celebrating Mothers, past, present and future. I represented the mother of the future. I had made up my mind that I wasn't going to have any children until I got married. This decision was made at the ripe old age of fifteen, when I saw a number of friends get pregnant and be teenage moms. It just wasn't something I wanted to do I saw them go through a lot of what is called now "BABY DADDY ISSUES" and I didn't want to do that. With my temperament and low self-esteem at the time I knew I couldn't handle it. If you are reading this and had a baby as a teenager, I am in no way throwing stones at you. I just couldn't handle it and I am sure my parents wouldn't have wanted to deal with it either. The decision did cost me some friends. They thought I was being self-righteous and stuck up I wasn't I just couldn't handle it. As a future mother, I researched the Proverbs 31 Woman. She by the way is the most hated woman in scripture. I never tried to be her. In fact as I look at the scripture as an older women I realize these are different seasons in her life. My point as a future mother was that a mother should be virtuous upright and a praying woman/ She has to be She is setting an example for her children to follow. When I spoke, I did it without notes and I received a standing ovation when I finished. I will never forget that. I really believed what I said. I expected to be married by 25. Then it was 30, by the time I was 35, I was in a major depression and figured I was never going to get married. I finally did at 41.
Mothers Day 1987, I was invited to speak at the Second Baptist Church in Hinton West Virginia. What I spoke on this was some of the mothers in the Bible and what we could learn from them. I spoke about Jocobed, the mother of Moses, Naomi and Ruth and Mary the mother of Jesus. I remember my mom helping me get an outfit and shoes for this occasion. It was a strange time in my life, a few weeks later I made the hardest decision to walk away from a situation. It was painful, but it was something that had to be done. Later I asked God about it and He said that wasn't what I wanted, it was what you wanted, I let you have it to see that you didn't';t need it.
Mothers Day 1992 - Sharon had twins. Sharon started having contractions at four months. She was put on bed rest so she could carry the babies as close to term as she could. She was in the hospital, because she decided to go to Walmart and she ran into her doctor. Caylon and Kirsten were born May 10, 1992 at 10:30PM.
I do regret that God didn't bless me to become a mother. I don't understand this, but as the song says "Up Above we'll see things clearly". I have been depressed over this especially when I see some of the things that go on with kids today. I overheard a grandmother talking about taking care of her granddaughter. Kids have a lot to worry about today. things that they shouldn't; have to worry about like, where will they live, when will they eat, will you be home when I come home from school? We never had to worry about those things.
In honor of the Mothers past present and Future HAPPY MOTHERS DAY !!!!
Mothers Day 1982- As a young woman in my 20's I was invited to speak at the Mothers Day program at Mt. Zion Baptist Church. The program was Celebrating Mothers, past, present and future. I represented the mother of the future. I had made up my mind that I wasn't going to have any children until I got married. This decision was made at the ripe old age of fifteen, when I saw a number of friends get pregnant and be teenage moms. It just wasn't something I wanted to do I saw them go through a lot of what is called now "BABY DADDY ISSUES" and I didn't want to do that. With my temperament and low self-esteem at the time I knew I couldn't handle it. If you are reading this and had a baby as a teenager, I am in no way throwing stones at you. I just couldn't handle it and I am sure my parents wouldn't have wanted to deal with it either. The decision did cost me some friends. They thought I was being self-righteous and stuck up I wasn't I just couldn't handle it. As a future mother, I researched the Proverbs 31 Woman. She by the way is the most hated woman in scripture. I never tried to be her. In fact as I look at the scripture as an older women I realize these are different seasons in her life. My point as a future mother was that a mother should be virtuous upright and a praying woman/ She has to be She is setting an example for her children to follow. When I spoke, I did it without notes and I received a standing ovation when I finished. I will never forget that. I really believed what I said. I expected to be married by 25. Then it was 30, by the time I was 35, I was in a major depression and figured I was never going to get married. I finally did at 41.
Mothers Day 1987, I was invited to speak at the Second Baptist Church in Hinton West Virginia. What I spoke on this was some of the mothers in the Bible and what we could learn from them. I spoke about Jocobed, the mother of Moses, Naomi and Ruth and Mary the mother of Jesus. I remember my mom helping me get an outfit and shoes for this occasion. It was a strange time in my life, a few weeks later I made the hardest decision to walk away from a situation. It was painful, but it was something that had to be done. Later I asked God about it and He said that wasn't what I wanted, it was what you wanted, I let you have it to see that you didn't';t need it.
Mothers Day 1992 - Sharon had twins. Sharon started having contractions at four months. She was put on bed rest so she could carry the babies as close to term as she could. She was in the hospital, because she decided to go to Walmart and she ran into her doctor. Caylon and Kirsten were born May 10, 1992 at 10:30PM.
I do regret that God didn't bless me to become a mother. I don't understand this, but as the song says "Up Above we'll see things clearly". I have been depressed over this especially when I see some of the things that go on with kids today. I overheard a grandmother talking about taking care of her granddaughter. Kids have a lot to worry about today. things that they shouldn't; have to worry about like, where will they live, when will they eat, will you be home when I come home from school? We never had to worry about those things.
In honor of the Mothers past present and Future HAPPY MOTHERS DAY !!!!
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