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What I learned from my Mother!
This is a piece I wrote for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and was printed in todays (Saturdays) Edition.
What's the most important thing you learned from your mother?
The most important thing I learned from my mother is prayer. My mother has been a praying woman all my life. Some of my earliest memories are of my mother praying. She prayed at home, at church, in the car and everywhere we went. It was like she was always ready to pray, no matter where she was.
She used to embarrass me in our little church because when we prayed, everybody prayed out loud and at the same time. She was the loudest of all (at least I thought so). There were many times that I wanted to crawl under my seat because of her loud praying. Down through the years, when I find myself in a crisis or having a problem I cannot fix myself, I begin to pray - and many times I find myself - praying just like my Godly Praying Mother.
Another thing I learned from my mother is a love for the Word of God. Her Bible was always worn. She continues to study her lessons on Saturday night to teach her Sunday School class on Sunday morning. She taught me how to study the Bible and to pray.
My mother has always been a Godly example of what a Christian should be. She is kind, considerate, always thinking of others. She was my inspiration to enter the ministry at a young age. My mother did not just tell me how to live, she showed me by example a Godly Christian life.
Bishop W. Wayne Pugh - Church Alive of Atlanta, Senior Pastor
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