What Kind of Mother Do/Did You Have?

[Sherri]

Originally Posted by tamor

Hey, did Tiffany pay her deposit?

Ummm....not sure. Jeff has that list, not me. If not, she needs to right away. I know that 20 people have paid the fifty dollars so far, so that's a great group.

[tamor]

Originally Posted by Sherri

Ummm....not sure. Jeff has that list, not me. If not, she needs to right away. I know that 20 people have paid the fifty dollars so far, so that's a great group.

So if she hasn't paid, it's not too late? Can she get it in Sunday if she hasn't already? Who is Jeff? Does she know him?

My MOM went to be with the Lord in 1994. She was a faithful saint of God. She was a praying woman, always ready to go to church until the dreadful disease of Alzheimer's made her unable to do so. She was faithful until the end always teaching sunday school and leading singing in our home church. She was a great lady who taught her children well, always living what she taught. Even though she has been gone all these years I still miss her and love her very much.

Thanks OP for starting this thread.

I don't think I have spoken much of my blessed mother in any of these forums but I want to give honor to her memory now.

If there was anything that my mother can be remembered for more than anything else is her PRAYING.

Gladys Strange could hit her knees and have heaven in an earthquake in nothing flat. The woman knew how to jar the throne of God and get an answer. She was also a fasting woman. I once saw her go on a 21 day fast with nothing but water, praying all day long for a dead church that had little hope. Before her fasting was over, the church was inundated with souls praying through to a lively hope.

In the days before I was born, people were so modest that they would not talk openly of private things as they do today. Mother was already "heavy with child," (me) and I was due to be born shortly. However, my mother went privately to her mother and secretly confided in her that she had not felt me move in her. Grandmother Pugh assured her that since she was so close to delivery time that I should be moving about.

With heaviness of heart, mother went behind the corncrib to pray. It was not long before she had knocked a big hole in the clouds. The power of God began streaming down out of glory. She said that the last thing that she remembered was a big ball of fire came together in the heaven and swept down upon her and completely engulfed her. This happened to her three times.

Mother was very athletic. She said that when she finally came to herself, she was springing high into the air. Finally after that, she felt something going on inside of her. She said that I was leaping, jumping, kicking and carrying on until she almost could not stand it anymore.

I often wondered if it were possible for anyone could receive the Holy Ghost in their mother womb. I can testify that when I spoke in tongues for the first time, at the age of seven, I felt no differently than I had always felt all of my life.

I bless the memory of my sainted mother who now waits for me just beyond the veil. It is her prayers that kept me secure with a covering all of my life. I am never discouraged. I am never depressed. I am never cast down. I am never in doubt. It is because of the strength of a godly, holy, praying mother than transfered into me the strength, confidence and boldness that is born of heaven. She gave it to me.

A woman said to me not long ago, "When you walked out on the platform, I never saw anyone who carried themself with such a powerful air of confidence." My thoughts immediately went to my mother. She had it. She had it. She had it. I am only the recipeint of her bold godliness.

I think that I need to post the testimony of how God raised this great woman of faith from a bed that the doctors said she would never rise up from. It has been a blessing to many people.

Happy mother's day, OP and all of you on this forum. You are blessed to have had a mother that walked with the same God that Abraham walked with.

[TalkLady]

My mother was a gentle, loving, caring lady. She never let me down. She was the best. I miss her terribly!

[IAintMovin]

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

[IAintMovin]

I WATCHED THE SUN COME UP

I watched the sun come up this morning;
It was a beautiful thing to behold.
As light came from the darkness;
And suddenly a burst of rays of gold.

All the colors of the rainbow;
Began to spread across the sky.
Light began to envelope creation;
Missing noting as it passed by.

On and on the light went shining;
Send darkness on the run.
Until all darkness had been abolished;
And creation now bask in the sun.

I watched the Son come up this morning;
On a life that in sin was born.
As light burst through the darkness;
To begin to mend that which sin had torn.

The healing of a mind, body, soul and spirit;
Was suddenly made all new.
The dreams and visions of days past;
Were no longer dead, but now true.

On and on that Son went shining;
Sending demons on the run.
Until all darkness had been abolished;
And creation was cover by blood of the Son.

I watched the sun come up this morning;
The rays began to touch heavens shore.
As the bonds began to be broken;
On a life humanity held no more.

All the colors of the rainbow;
Began to spread across the sky.
While on the other side the light began to fade;
Though to hold it hard we did try.

For there to be a sunrise on heavens shore;
On earth some must be left alone.
Our hearts must break and tears must we shed;
So my mother can say, “I survived, I made it home.”

[rgcraig]

JR,

Too cool!

Thanks for sharing both of those with us. I tried to find the tears pouring out smilie........

[IAintMovin]

Originally Posted by rgcraig

JR,

Too cool!

Thanks for sharing both of those with us. I tried to find the tears pouring out smilie........

I promise you they were when I posted......I think the second year will be worse than the first.....I know that I am not the only one who has to go through this........but I just got off the phone with my dad and I really am not excited about having to put the final touches on tomorrow.......Oh well....sweet memories.....

[Sarah]

Originally Posted by Tina

I have always had a great relationship with my mom. I believe that God blessed me with the best mother in the world.

I was raised in an apostolic church from the time I was 5 years old. She has lived the life before me, and been a wonderful Christian example to me. I haven't always been what I should be, but Mom was always there to support me-- and to pray for me until I was back where I needed to be.

I want to be more like my Mom.

I could tell you all kinds of stories about when I was a kid, and different things that my mom did, times that I know she went without things for herself so that all her children could have something special. Lots of us could tell those kinds of things about our moms.

There's one thing that really sticks out in my mind as the most unselfish thing that my mother ever did for her children.

On the day before my brother's wedding-- the entire family had gone to stay overnight in Nashville to be there for the wedding rehearsal. Before we left for Nashville, my mom's mother had been put in the hospital with an infection- at the time they weren't sure what was going on, but they had put her on IV antibiotics. My mom's sister was keeping her updated on Grandmother's condition by cell phone.

After the wedding rehearsal and we'd all gone back to our motel rooms-- my mother received a call from her sister, saying that Grandmother had slipped into a coma. Mom called each of our motel rooms and asked us to pray.

The next morning, we all got ready--went out to breakfast and went over to the church for the wedding. When the wedding was over and my brother and his wife left the church-- the rest of the family left and came back to bring a bunch of wedding gifts back to the house where my brother and his wife were going to live. When we got everything unloaded and put into the house-- my mother just sat down on the couch and put her face in her hands. I knew what had happened.. It was then that I first found out that her mother had died that morning-- just minutes before the wedding started Mom had received the call.

I don't know how my mom held it together that day-- I'm sure that God comforted her more than we ever could have anyway. I know I would have been falling apart, but Mom didn't. She kept that phone call to herself until all the day's festivities were over and we were all back at home. I asked her why she didn't let some of us know sooner, so that we could be there for her. She said she didn't want my brother and his wife to have such news to put a damper on their wedding day. In fact, they didn't even tell my brother that grandmother had died until he returned from his honeymoon a couple of days later.

What can one say, Tina......this is truly one of the most unselfish examples of love I have ever heard.