Love Is A Mum

Words About Made

Married: 35yrs

Kids: 2

Grandkids: 5

Ibu Made is like the mom for all of us.. She always welcomes everyone with an open heart, open arms, even an open house. She is a good example of a woman. - Toby & Betsy

Ibu Made you are a good example of a wife, friend and servant of God ... always receiving us with open arms and full of love. - Yve

Ibu Made you're a woman that exudes God's grace, dignity, and beauty. We are blessed to have an example, a mentor, a friend like you at our church. - Matt & Crisilla

You are loving and caring, detailed and organised and with great sense of humour. Big mama for many kids including us. - Pierre & Natasha

We thank God for Ibu Made and honour her specifically as a mother and a role model on Mother’s Day. Ibu Made is a God fearing, God loving, God worshipping woman who is a mother to so many. She is a mother and grandmother to her own children and grandchildren, to the families of Gedong village and the Munduk region and to her brothers and sisters in Christ in the churches of Bali and Australia. Her love, words of wisdom and encouragement are nourishment to our souls. She is someone who God has given to all of us to appreciate and to model our lives after. - Doug & Kimberley

Ibu Made is a gentle person, patient, and prayerful mother. - Tasya

Amazing wife, mum, grandmother and cook. Always full of laughter and happiness. Sings when the going gets tough. Doesn't hold grudges, looks to the best in people. Sticks through thick and thin. She's all woman and doesn't compete with men but loves to win UNO. - John

Mother’s Day

What can we learn from this amazing lady?

I would say this that shooting stars may be awesome for a moment but true beauty and worth isn’t a shooting star moment. Spectacular, yes! but gone in an instant. True beauty is found in the things that stand the test of time.

1 Peter 3:4 NLT

You should clothe yourselves instead with the beauty that comes from within, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is so precious to God.

Mother’s Day

God didn’t trust the man to birth the kids so he gave it to women. Men may be able to build a whole house for you, fix your plumbing or car, stand and look amazingly manly so all you women can stand back and look in amazement, but when it came to the most precious and amazing thing of all, God chose the women.

Even the man’s part in all this is not that difficult. You don’t even need to twist his arm to get involved.

He will be there in an instant.

What an amazing gift from God and honour for the women. I know it doesn’t seem like that when you are vomiting from morning sickness, you have the weirdest cravings and your body is being stretched every which way. Being kicked when you try to sleep and then to top it off you have to push the baby out.

And that’s just the start of it.

The journey has only just begun.

You don’t even get time to recover as it’s on from day one.

You are now the food bank on call when ever needed. I mean your body can produce food!!!

Nappies are endless, poo gets every where, vomit get every where, it’s a military operation just to go some where and this is carried mainly by the women way more than it should.

I should know cause I wasn’t the best at supporting my wife through it. Not once but 4 times.

What the women does however find is their rhythm on how to look after this baby who came with no manuals, no instructions, no off switch and no way to send back and after all the hard things she went through she showed the most amazing, caring and selfless love.

Mum’s, old and young, YOU ARE AMAZING and today we celebrate YOU!!!

1 Corinthians 12:1–4 NLT

Now, dear brothers and sisters, regarding your question about the special abilities the Spirit gives us. I don’t want you to misunderstand this. You know that when you were still pagans, you were led astray and swept along in worshiping speechless idols. So I want you to know that no one speaking by the Spirit of God will curse Jesus, and no one can say Jesus is Lord, except by the Holy Spirit. There are different kinds of spiritual gifts, but the same Spirit is the source of them all.

1 Corinthians 13:4–7 The Message

Love never gives up. Love cares more for others than for self. Love doesn’t want what it doesn’t have. Love doesn’t strut, Doesn’t have a swelled head, Doesn’t force itself on others, Isn’t always “me first,” Doesn’t fly off the handle, Doesn’t keep score of the sins of others, Doesn’t revel when others grovel, Takes pleasure in the flowering of truth, Puts up with anything, Trusts God always, Always looks for the best, Never looks back, But keeps going to the end.

1 Corinthian 12:

Marcia

Married: 35yrs

Kids: 2

Grandkids: 5

Always full of laughter and happiness.

Ibu Made is like the mom for all of us.. She always welcomes everyone with an open heart, open arms, even an open house. She is a good example of a woman. - Toby & Betsy

Toby & Betsy

Ibu Made you are a good example of a wife, friend and servant of God ... always receiving us with open arms and full of love. - Yve

Yve

Ibu Made you're a woman that exudes God's grace, dignity, and beauty. We are blessed to have an example, a mentor, a friend like you at our church. - Matt & Crisilla

Matt & Crisilla

You are loving and caring, detailed and organised and with great sense of humour. Big mama for many kids including us. - Pierre & Natasha

Pierre & Natasha

We thank God for Ibu Made and honour her specifically as a mother and a role model on Mother’s Day. Ibu Made is a God fearing, God loving, God worshipping woman who is a mother to so many. She is a mother and grandmother to her own children and grandchildren, to the families of Gedong village and the Munduk region and to her brothers and sisters in Christ in the churches of Bali and Australia. Her love, words of wisdom and encouragement are nourishment to our souls. She is someone who God has given to all of us to appreciate and to model our lives after. - Doug & Kimberley

Ibu Made is a God fearing, God loving, God worshipping woman who is a mother to so many. She is a mother and grandmother to her own children and grandchildren, to the families of Gedong village and the Munduk region and to her brothers and sisters in Christ in the churches of Bali and Australia. Her love, words of wisdom and encouragement are nourishment to our souls. She is someone who God has given to all of us to appreciate and to model our lives after.

Doug & Kimberley

Ibu Made is a gentle person, patient, and prayerful mother. - Tasya

Tasya

Amazing wife, mum, grandmother and cook. Always full of laughter and happiness. Sings when the going gets tough. Doesn't hold grudges, looks to the best in people. Sticks through thick and thin. She's all woman and doesn't compete with men but loves to win UNO. - John

Sings when the going gets tough. Doesn't hold grudges, looks to the best in people.

Sticks through thick and thin.

She's all woman and doesn't compete with men but loves to win UNO

John

What can we learn from this amazing lady?

I would say this that shooting stars may be awesome for a moment but true beauty and worth isn’t a shooting star moment. Spectacular, yes! but gone in an instant. True beauty is found in the things that stand the test of time.

1 Peter 3:4 NLT

You should clothe yourselves instead with the beauty that comes from within, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is so precious to God.

Marcia

Kimberley Bennett

You were a bit of a challenge to your parents including your mum. What was the big thing your mum did for you during those rebellious years?

You are a mum but one of a slightly different kind. You have kids but they are not your biological kids. How has that been for you?

What is the one big thing you’ve learnt in it all?

1 Corinthians 13:4 NLT

Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud

Melisa

How do you deal with having to carry the whole load while Daryl’s away for such long periods of time?

What is the one big thing you’ve learnt in it all?

1 Corinthians 13:5 NLT

or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged.

Natasha

What has been the hardest thing working through having a child, dealing with that in the added environment of communication in a multi-cultural marriage?

What is the one big thing you’ve learnt in it all?

1 Corinthians 13:6 NLT

It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out.

Crissilia

How is life as a working mum balancing family, business and finding time for you in all that?

What is the one big thing you’ve learnt in it all?

1 Corinthians 13:7 NLT

Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.

Prissi

How has life been dealing with and coping being a single mum that was not planned?

What is the one big thing you’ve learnt in it all?

Proverbs 31:10–12 NLT

Who can find a virtuous and capable wife? She is more precious than rubies. Her husband can trust her, and she will greatly enrich his life. She brings him good, not harm, all the days of her life.

Who could ever find a wife like this one—she is a woman of strength and mighty valour! She’s full of wealth and wisdom. The price paid for her was greater than many jewels. Her husband has entrusted his heart to her, for she brings him the rich spoils of victory. All throughout her life she brings him what is good and not evil. She searches out continually to possess that which is pure and righteous. She delights in the work of her hands. She gives out revelation-truth to feed others. She is like a trading ship bringing divine supplies from the merchant. Even in the night season she arises and sets food on the table for hungry ones in her house and for others.

She sets her heart upon a nation and takes it as her own, carrying it within her. She labours there to plant the living vines. She wraps herself in strength, might, and power in all her works. She tastes and experiences a better substance, and her shining light will not be extinguished, no matter how dark the night. She stretches out her hands to help the needy and she lays hold of the wheels of government. She is known by her extravagant generosity to the poor, for she always reaches out her hands to those in need. She is not afraid of tribulation, for all her household is covered in the dual garments of righteousness and grace.

Her clothing is beautifully knit together, a purple gown of exquisite linen. Her husband is famous and admired by all, sitting as the venerable judge of his people. Even her works of righteousness she does for the benefit of her enemies. Bold power and glorious majesty are wrapped around her as she laughs with joy over the latter days. Her teachings are filled with wisdom and kindness as loving instruction pours from her lips. She watches over the ways of her household and meets every need they have.

A wife of noble character who can find? She is worth far more than rubies.

Charm can be misleading, and beauty is vain and so quickly fades, but this virtuous woman lives in the wonder, awe, and fear of the Lord. She will be praised throughout eternity. So go ahead and give her the credit that is due, for she has become a radiant woman, and all her loving works of righteousness deserve to be admired at the gateways of every city!

Her sons and daughters arise in one accord to extol her virtues, and her husband arises to speak of her in glowing terms. “There are many valiant and noble ones, but you have ascended above them all!” Charm can be misleading, and beauty is vain and so quickly fades, but this virtuous woman lives in the wonder, awe, and fear of the Lord. She will be praised throughout eternity. So go ahead and give her the credit that is due, for she has become a radiant woman, and all her loving works of righteousness deserve to be admired at the gateways of every city!

Her husband has full confidence in her and lacks nothing of value.

She brings him good, not harm all the days of her life.

She is clothed with strength and dignity; she can laugh at the days to come.

She speaks with wisdom, and faithful instruction is on her tongue.

She watches over the affairs of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness.

Her children arise and call her blessed;her husband also, and he praises her: “Many women do noble things,but you surpass them all.”

Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting; but a woman who fears the LORD is to be praised.

Give her the reward she has earned, and let her works bring her praise at the city gate.