7 Ways to Love Your Mother

Last Mother’s Day I gave a message at the First Baptist Church in Reserve, NM titled, “7 Ways to Love Your Mother” It is based on John 19:25-27. Read it please. There are many places in the Bible where we can look and find guidance about how to love our Mothers. In this one small section, in John, Jesus gave us great insight into the way our earthly Mothers are to be regarded and cared for. Can you imagine how Mary must have felt as she witnessed Jesus at the cross? She was close enough to hear every moan, every breath, and every word that came from the mouth of Jesus! Stop and think about that please, my friends. Jesus began by addressing her appropriately: “Dear woman” Can you hear the compassion in his voice? No doubt He knew the pain and sorrow she was experiencing. Then He turned to John and instructed him to take care of her! Here He was, hanging on the cross with the sins of the world on His shoulders, yet He wants to make sure His earthly Mother is cared for properly!
The picture used in the podcast image, is of my Mom and Dad holding our son Lars. The picture at the very top is of Mom and Dad, one of the last pictures we have of them together. I also included a picture of my Mom, Ruth Moede, her graduation picture from Windom, Minnesota High School. She passed onto Glory at age 64 of cancer in 1995. I keep her rocker in my office, the rocker she would sit in, wrapped in a blanket after coming home from chemo. She was such a Godly woman, a tremendous Christian testimony to us kids, as was our Daddy, Wally, who also went to heaven at age 64 of a sudden heart attack on Easter morning.