Come and gone…

 Come and gone…

Another Mother’s Day has come and gone…

The cards were sent and read…tears spilled over mothers come and gone…thanks yous said…texts, emails shared…pictures viewed…

We mothers, those of long ago, present and future…do appreciate all the sentiment…we long to hold back time to those first steps, giggles, mushy kisses but alas time does not stand still and there before us are grown adults who bring little ones with mushy kisses and then wedding gowns…all precious and held close to our hearts…

Eve with her first sons…

Sarah waiting desperately til her old age finally came, but with it a son…

Hannah crying at the temple, wanting a child, and giving him the the Lord…

Children born in the wilderness to enter the promised land…

Twins born with favoritism…

Adopted children…

Dying children of the heart…

Promised children…

Etc…

Mothers of the Bible had the same challenges we face through the ages…we watch our children grow, we ponder in our hearts their futures, their antics, their words…we love them and we love our mothers before us…we live or reject their examples…we want the best for our children…we guide them, we discipline them…

Thank YOU…

 Adam made love to his wife Eve, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Cain. She said, “With the help of the Lord I have brought forth a man.” Later she gave birth to his brother Abel…

Gen.4.1,Gen.4.2a

 Now a man of the tribe of Levi married a Levite woman, and she became pregnant and gave birth to a son. When she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him for three months. But when she could hide him no longer, she got a papyrus basket for him and coated it with tar and pitch. 

Then she placed the child in it and put it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile. 

“Yes, go,” she answered. 

So the girl went and got the baby’s mother. 

Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take this baby and nurse him for me, and I will pay you.” So the woman took the baby and nursed him. 

When the child grew older, she took him to Pharaoh’s daughter and he became her son. 

She named him Moses, saying, “I drew him out of the water.”

Exod.2.1-3,Exod.2.8-10

 Isaac prayed to the Lord on behalf of his wife, because she was childless. The Lord answered his prayer, and his wife Rebekah became pregnant. 

The babies jostled each other within her, and she said, “Why is this happening to me?” 

So she went to inquire of the Lord. 

The Lord said to her,“Two nations are in your womb,and two peoples from within you will be separated;one people will be stronger than the other,and the older will serve the younger.” When the time came for her to give birth, there were twin boys in her womb.

Gen.25.21-24

 On the seventh day the child died. David’s attendants were afraid to tell him that the child was dead, for they thought, “While the child was still living, he wouldn’t listen to us when we spoke to him. 

How can we now tell him the child is dead? He may do something desperate.” 

David noticed that his attendants were whispering among themselves, and he realized the child was dead. “Is the child dead?” he asked.“Yes,” they replied, “he is dead.”

2Sam.12.18-19

 and Jacob the father of Joseph, the husband of Mary, and Mary was the mother of Jesus who is called the Messiah. 

But after he had considered this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, “Joseph son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary home as your wife, because what is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. 

She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins.” 

All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had said through the prophet: “The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel” (which means “God with us”).

Matt.1.16,Matt.1.20-23

how He loves us…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyedxYR05Es

Favorite comics from Mother’s Day…