Devotion of the Week Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that fears the Lord, She shall be praised. Proverbs 31:30
May 8, 2004
By: Charles H. Spice, Pastor
Felt's Chapel/Corbin Trinity UMC
Believe it or not I had two mothers, and four grandmothers. How is this? There were my Mother’s mother and my Daddy’s mother. My widowed mother married my Dad, a widower. So there were his mother, and my new brothers’ Grandmother. Therefore, I had four grandmothers. My wife’s mother makes the second mother.
Now you say they were not all real mothers or grandmothers. I say that is not so. I loved and respected each. In addition I had a couple of really special aunts.
You only get out of a relationship what you are willing to put into it. If each of you is willing to get 100% or maybe as they say 110% then the relationship will have meaning.
What about your relationship to God. You know that what he put into the relationship is His all. So the real question is how much are we willing to put into a loving, caring relationship with God. Is Jesus real in our life? Does He have meaning for us? If not, it is out fault.
Ask Him, and He will also help us be closer.
One of the things my mother taught me was Jesus loves me this I know, for the Bible tells me so.
And she taught me to pray.
A grandmother is .... A grandmother is many things: She is the matriarch of the family, its keeper of traditions, its historian, and its mentor. A grandmother is a spiritual guide, a role model, a trusted friend, and a beloved family treasure. (Copied from “A Grandmother’s Love lasts a lifetime” by Mary Carlisle Beasley)
