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Here is the tribute I put together for Mothers Day Last Year.
I will post right after this the poem I wrote for her that I read at her funeral.....
I will not enjoy tonight........I have to get ready to preach my second Mothers Day without Mom and I dread it........
A Tribute to My Mother by Pastor James Renfro Jr.:
Today will be the forty-third time that I have been in the House of the Lord to celebrate Mother’s Day. For forty-two of those forty-three years I have been able to walk down the hall, pick up the phone or make the drive and tell my mother Happy Mother’s Day. Today however it is different, this afternoon I will make the drive of a little over an hour and go to the peaceful place where my mother waits for the eastern sky to split and the trumpet of the Lord to sound. We will cry and we will remember.
What do I remember most? The thing that I remember most is my mother. Now I realize that this may not be the answer that you look for, but see when I say I remember my mother I am really saying that I remember The grip of the hand while we are in prayer, I can feel it now. The rod of correction, it seems that I can still feel it at times. The courage to face up to failure and when others would turn their back and run and hide, I watched as my Mother stood and looked the powers of hell and their intimidating force right square in the eye and then back them down with the help of the Lord. The way she laughed when she would remember the same thing that was funny years ago, she still had that humor in her life.
That list can go on for a little while, but when you say Mother to me, these are the things that I remember.
Thanks Mom for being a great mother, Nanna and friend to this family. We miss you everyday and especially today. WiT we will see you again.
Rest on Mom, you earned it.
Jimbo
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