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SISSY MARLENE'S PAGES
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What makes good mothers?
It is a pertinent question whose answer cannot be contained within a few words.
Mothers comprise of a bundle of emotions
that sometimes defy reason.
So this goes out to all the mothers
who have kept awake all night
with their sick toddlers in their arms,
constantly uttering those compassionate words,
"It's OK honey, Mommy's here."
For all the mothers who run carpools
and make cookies and sew.
And all the mothers who don't.
For those who show up at work
with milk stains on their dress
and diapers in their handbags.
For those mothers who cannot restrain
tears from trickling down their cheeks
when they hold their babies
for the first time in their arms;
and for the mothers who give birth
to babies they'll never see.
For the mothers who gave homes
to babies and gifted them a family.
For the mothers who yell at their kids
who clamor for ice cream before dinner.
For the mothers who defy all odds
just to watch her kid perform
and repeat to themselves
"That's my child!!"
For all the mothers who read
"Goodnight, Moon" twice a night for a year,
and then read it again. "Just one more time."
For the mothers who taught
their children to tie the shoelaces
even before they started going to school.
For the mothers who immediately
turn their heads when they hear the word "Mom",
even though they know
that their kids are nowhere around.
For the mothers who silently shed tears
for their children who have gone astray.
For all those mothers whose heart aches
to watch her son or daughter disappear down the street,
walking to school alone for the very first time.
For all the mothers of the victims
of all these school shootings,
and the mothers of those
who were involved in the shooting.
For the mothers of the Survivors,
and the mothers who sat in front of their
TVs in horror,
clinging to their child who
just arrived from school safely.
So, this is meant for all the young
and aged mothers,
working mothers and housewives,
married mothers and the single mothers,
those with money and without
and for those without whom
life would have been insufferable.
Wish you a very Happy Mother's Day!!
Giant Sissy Hugs,
Your sissy,
Marlene
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Have you ever said to someone you love
"I love you sooooo much",
and felt the inadequacy of those words?
Imagine how God the Father
must feel to have to rely on
"For God so loved the world...." (John 3:16)
a verse that millions of people know
but only a few truly believe.
He had the rest of the Bible written
to prove that one verse.
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"....LORD, LORD, HAVE WE NOT PROPHECIED IN YOUR NAME AND DRIVEN OUT DEMONS IN YOUR NAME AND
DONE MANY MIGHTY WORKS IN YOUR NAME?" Matt.7:22
"....BUT FAITH WHICH WORKETH BY LOVE" Gal.5:6
Isn't it amazing to you that people who Jesus ultimately says: "....I never knew you; depart from Me, you who act wickedly [disregarding My commands]." (Matt.7:23)were the very ones who did so many works in His name? That always amazes me to read that! I myself would think that anyone who can do those things in His name is surely saved & on their way to heaven! Yet we see Jesus rejecting them!!
Why? He says because they disregarded His commands!! What were His commands?
Jesus said, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind (intellect). This is the great (most important principle) and first commandment.
"And second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as [you do] yourself."
Jesus' greatest commands were love...disobey the commands of love and you disobey God.
No where in the Bible will you find:
love them if they love you...if they treat you right...if they follow your doctrine or opinion...
love them IF they have been loyal and faithful and true blue...
love them IF....no, you won't find THAT anywhere....
But what you will find is that much can be accomplished WITHOUT it!!
But not enough to EARN your way to heaven!!
And then, think about this:
If we could do so much "for God" with no love, imagine how great works we could do WITH His love?
Ps.111:4: HE HATH MADE HIS WONDERFUL WORKS TO BE REMEMBERED: THE LORD IS GRACIOUS AND FULL OF COMPASSION.
Compassion is God's active love.
Since we are all at differnt "levels" and places on the road to being changed into the image of the Lord Jesus Christ (Rom.8:29)
RECIEVE the love from God...
FILL UP on it by beleiving it...
GIVE IT OUT and allow His love to flow from Him to others through you.
DON'T STAGNATE! If you keep the love to yourself, it will never grow but will stagnate and cause you to try & replace it with your own human love and that is what causes heartache and pain because our own human love is nothing compared to God's love! Neither will our own human love energize our faith.
Remember: Faith works by Love!!
God bless you,
Giant sissy hugs,
Your sissy,
Marlene
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