It’s been a great Mother’s Day weekend for me. Yesterday, I spoke at the Bartlett United Pentecostal Church for their Mother/Daughter Tea. God allowed me to minister to about 60 women. I talked to them about the importance of developing spiritual roots for their Family Trees. We had a lovely time and the Holy Spirit really ministered. The decor was beautiful!(See pic) The theme was Branches of Blessings.
Then, I came home from speaking and my middle son, Jeremy had a dozen roses and a beautiful card waiting for me. His card really touched me because he wrote a personal note about how much he and his brothers and sister really love and respect me.
For those of you who don’t know I am actually my kid’s stepmother. I married their father when I was 20 years old and he was 30 years old twenty-five years ago. He was a widower and the 4 little kids. The oldest was nine and the youngest was 2! You can read INSTANT MOTHERHOOD one of the first articles I wrote (it DEFINITELY reads like someone’s first article) but it tells my story…
And then, if that wasn’t enough at church, my sweet husband was leading prayer requests and paused and told everyone how thankful he was that I raised his children and that they love me so much. He welled up with tears as he did it and just touched my heart so much. I was overwhelmed with joy already, thinking things can’t get any better and came home and got on my Facebook Page and my daughter had written a beautiful post about me and said this song from Brad Paisley should have been written about me(see below). She said even though Brad talks about his step dad, she thinks it describes me beautifully:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjO1F6oCab8
I just had to share all this with you my faithful readers. It’s been 25 years and there were hard times like any mother experiences. But when you give in love and sincerity God ALWAYS brings things around. Truly, I am blessed today and every day to have had the life I have and the family I’ve had.
Now it’s your turn. Write and tell me about how YOUR MOTHER’S DAY went. I honestly want to hear!