Mommy Powers

- Mommy Anecdotes

A Mothers Opinion

4 years of age: My mommy can do anything!

8 years of age: My mom knows a whole lot!

12 years of age: My mother doesn’t really know quite everything.

14 years of age: Naturally, Mother doesn’t know that either.

16 years of age: Mother? She’s hopelessly old-fashioned.

18 years of age: That old woman? She’s way out of date!

25 years of age: Well, she might know a little bit about it.

35 years of age: Before we decide, let’s get Mom’s opinion.

45 years of age: I wonder what Mom would have thought about it?

65 years of age: I wish I could talk it over with Mom.

Source: Unknown

A Mothers Sacrifice

On August 16, 1987, Northwest Airlines flight 225 crashed just after taking off from the Detroit airport, killing 155 people. One survived: a four-year-old from Tempe, Arizona, named Cecelia. When rescuers found Cecelia they did not believe she had been on the plane. Investigators first assumed Cecelia had been a passenger in one of the cars on the highway onto which the airliner crashed. But when the passenger register for the flight was checked, there was Cecelia's name. Cecelia survived because, even as the plane was falling, Cecelia's mother, Paula Cichan, unbuckled her own seat belt, got down on her knees in front of her daughter, wrapped her arms and body around Cecelia, and then would not let her go.

Nothing could separate that child from her parent’s love—neither tragedy nor disaster, neither the fall nor the flames that followed, neither height nor depth, neither life nor death.

Source: Los Angeles Times, August 20, 1987

The Gift of Grey Hair

For her special day Janet received an expensive tube of hair dye from her two teenage daughters. When she shared about her gift at a luncheon with friends, they were all impressed that her girls were resourceful enough to find such an expensive product to help diminish her grey hair. Realizing this was such a unique gift, the ladies were curious as to what they gave her for last Mother’s Day. Without a moment’s hesitation she replied, “The grey hair!” Source: Unknown

A Mother’s Love

In his book, Moments for Mothers, Robert Strand wrote about the conflicts of a family in Glasgow, Scotland. After years of rebellion, a daughter finally rejected her parents, their values, and their faith. She set out on her own to enjoy a life without restraints, but soon became enslaved to her liberated choices. Years of misery followed as she lived on the streets, sold herself for pennies, and depended on rescue missions for survival. Because of her self-imposed detachment from family, she didn’t know her father died, or that her mother never quit looking for her. One day she saw a picture that her mom had posted in each of the city’s homeless shelters. Scrawled across the photo of her mother were the words, “I love you still… come home!” In wonder and disbelief she set out for her home in hopes that she was indeed still loved. By the time she arrived it was the middle of the night. Her heart raced as she stood on the porch and prepared to knock, but her countenance suddenly changed when she tapped on the door and it crept open. She ran to her mother’s bedroom in fear that someone had broken in and harmed her. She desperately reached for her mom and the woman awoke quickly to embrace her wayward daughter. When the young woman explained her fears about the open door, her mother replied, “No dear. From the day you left, that door has never been locked.” Source: Chicken Soup For The Mother’s Soul, Canfield and Hansen

- To Be or Not to Be Mom

In the book of Exodus, we read that Moses mother defied the Pharaoh’s evil orders of throwing all the male infants into the Nile.

She did what you and I would think any mother would do,

At the risk of her own life, she wrapped the baby in some rags and put him adrift in a basket,

Then by providence of God, the daughter of Pharoah wanted to be a mother apparently by any means necessary,

she plucks the child from the Nile, and declared him her son.

Many would consider Moses lucky to have been able to be raised in such luxury and wealth.

Some would no doubt also consider Pharaoh’s daughter to be so lucky as to able to receive a son so easily.

There are many women in the Bible who desperately wanted to have a child, but couldn’t for some reason.

Then by blessing of the Lord, they eventually concieved and bore the children they so desperately longed for.

Then again, there are also cases where some women had children whom they didn’t seem to care for.

Kind of sounds like our contemporary times don’t it?

There are many women longing so desperately that they spend millions of dollars collectively, in the world,

for the chance of being able to conceive and have a child.

On the other hand, there are just as many, or possibly more than those women, who have multiple children

but don’t want to raise any of them.

For whatever reason.

What’s even more disturbing is that they find it easy to just flat out abandon their children.

Some, even go so far as to kill their own babies

Shame on all them.

We are told in Scripture that in the land of Caanan, people would sacrifice their children on the fires of Moloch.

In exchange for financial prosperity and blessings, on get this, future children.

(https://www.gotquestions.org/who-Molech.html)

Today, it’s no different.

as of January 1, 2024, there are already over 15 million abortions committed.

Why?

All in the exchange no doubt for liberation from motherhood, for what ever reason attached to it.

Wether for

freedom to continue working, which would be for financial blessings,

Freedom from the obligation

Freedom of time

Freedom of responsibilities

No matter the reason, It was traded away in exchange for something else.

- Super-Heros

In my office I have a collection of posable superhero figurines.

They are arranged in a such a way as to all be kneeling or standing in a prayer pose.

They are all facing a wooden cross.

The image I am trying to portray is that, even all of the superhero’s of our day,

Will kneel before the ultimate superhero, Our Lord Jesus Christ.

Well, those are just figurines, TOYS!

Forget Hollywood, and comic book renditions, do you know who the real Super-Heros are?

They are the women who often go un-appreciated, and under valued, that end up picking-up the slack for the ones who

have traded away their babies on today’s altar of Moloch, in the name of drugs, time, responsibilities, or financial freedom.

They have what I call, Mommy Powers!

These are the ones who valiantly step in and raise these abandoned children after the real parents disappear into the world for whatever reason

These are the ones who should be honored, and held in esteem.

Those who would rather trade their freedoms, and finances for the honor of raising a child that isn’t even theirs, all

For the love of Christ.

When you self sacrifice like that for one of these little abandoned children, in the name of Christ

That’s called Mommy Powers.

Like pilots when they receive their wings, Ladies, when you take on the job of motherhood, You Get Mommy Powers

Round of applause for those with Mommy Powers.

So, our hats are off to you ladies, grandmas, aunts, sisters, cousins, and friends, who either have done it, or are

currently find yourselves in the blessed position of caring for a child not your own.

You are the embodiment of Motherhood.

They say it takes a community to raise a child,

No, it doesn’t, It takes one woman willing to be a MOM to that child

My wife Yadi was raised exclusively by her mother.

She says so all the time,

Her mom not only had to fulfil the role of Motherhood, but also the role of Fatherhood, provider, protector, and mentor.

She didn’t always get it right either, but guess what, you aren’t supposed to

No one is perfect.

The success is in the trying, not the end.

I am reminded of an 84 year old woman from a previous church I pastored, who had taken on the responsibility of

Raising her, adopted daughter’s grandchild.

That’s right!

She was 82-84 then and the child was about 4-6 years old then.

This was a few years ago,

The daughter she adopted went the way of the world, then she had to raise her grandchild, then she ended up raising her great grandchild

neither of which were her biological child.

Wow! Its because of her Mommy Powers that she can keep up with that kid.

Hats off to her.

Who knows what caused the lack of maternal failures in that line, but regardless, she was there picking up the slack,

well into her 80’s.

Only God knows what will happen to that little boy as she gets older.

Mother’s Day

But, enough of that

Today is a day we honor our mothers, “Today is Mother’s day”

Now, I am not sure if those that elected this day to honor motherhood, if they meant to include all moms

Or just the good ones or not

- Honor Thy Mother

But I must use this opportunity to tell you about how God Sees the role of “Honoring thy Mother”

In the Bible we are told explicitly to Honor thy Mother and Father

Exodus 20:12 (CSB)

12 Honor your father and your mother so that you may have a long life in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.

This command is reiterated in

Ephesians 6:1–3 (CSB)

1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, because this is right. 2 Honor your father and mother, which is the first commandment with a promise, 3 so that it may go well with you and that you may have a long life in the land.

Paul adds the fact that this is the first commandment that comes With a promise.

If you do this, Then that will happen

If you Honor your father and Mother, “It will be well with you and you will long on the earth.”

Rebellious children were to be stoned and killed

So, we can see that God takes the issue of honoring the parent Very seriously,

So much that He felt it necessary to Command it,

To mention it in His commandments for “A God following life style”

And He also added an incentive for doing so

For example, He doesn’t say, Do not kill and you will long on the earth etc.

Granted, it this commandment is easy for us who were blessed With nurturing, praying mothers.

It must extremely difficult for those who suffered under an awful one

So, let me be clear, this commandment is not to justify bad parenting or

To erase all of the offenses they may have caused

But rather, It is the honoring of the “Place she holds” in God’s plan For your life.

Jeremiah 29:11 (CSB)

11 For I know the plans I have for you”—this is the Lord’s declaration—“plans for your well-being, not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope.

Thats right!

You see, all women who have become mothers will have to answer for their place in the lives of their children.

And you will have to answer for how you honored your mothers place in your life.

Honoring the Father and Mother is honoring the triune Nature of the Trinity, The Father, Son, & Holy Spirit,

The Father, Mother, Child, etc

This is what you are to honor.

This is not dealing with them, It’s dealing with your obedience to His command to honor the parents place.

The Lord, is only concerned with Your walk with the Lord

Besides, we all know that Children don’t come with Individual Instruction Manuals,

There is a general instruction Manual, however, its called The Bible

Mothers are human too, they make mistakes

Even the best ones.

So, If you are a mother, or expecting to be so someday.

Don’t fret over not being the best mother,

Don’t worry, because in your child’s eyes you’ve already won best mother of the year to that child

Even if you don’t get it right all or even most of the time, you are always going to win best mother in their hearts

No matter what you do.

But in whatever you do, Be a Godly Mother, Be a Praying Mother,

Now, this goes to whomever you are.

Wether you are blessed with your own children to raise, or

Blessed with someone else’s child to raise

What is most important is to remember that you, (for what ever reason,) were chosen

By the hand of God to be Mom to those children.

What an awesome responsibility, especially if you have to raise children like mom had. lol

And to that End, that we celebrate you today!

And the memory of those who are already in heaven

We honor all of your hard work, all of your tears, all of your love, all of your prayers

But most of all, because you are Mom! Happy mothers day.

May God richly bless you with long, healthy, fruitful lives