Dewey's Daily Cup

Dear KKIM/KARS Family,

May the Strength, Peace and Wisdom of our Lord be with you and yours forever and ever!!

Happy Mothers Day!!!

My Mother, Ruth went home to heaven in 1995. She loved me so…..She would always guide me with her corrections. Mom was my Dad’s shadow, she was the quiet one……but had much quiet strength…..there is a lot to be said about quiet strength! I remember one day running home from school and it has just turned spring….I picked more than a hand full of fresh dandelions…..so bright yellow…….and ran home to give them to my Mom! You would have thought she was handed a $100.00 bouquet of flowers! What a smile and laugh! That’s the other thing I remember about Mom…always being there when we got home from school or playing. The other thing I remember is her Bible…..always underlining verses and reading……She gave much to my hometown, being My Dad’s right arm in running the School Buses and cooking at the School. I had the best Grandma’s also, Grandma Lena Caraway and Deena Moede, what wonderful, kind gentle Grandma’s. WOW! How they could cook!, Nothing like homemade cookies and bread! But more importantly than that, There is nothing like the love of a Grandma! Grandma Caraway is the one who said that I would be a Preacher someday! Yes my dear friends, I had a wonderful childhood and even beyond those years. I give Praise and Thanks to our LORD!

WHO IS MOTHER?

Mother is half of the Father/Mother team, the one who gave birth to you as a child. When she first held you in her arms, she fell madly in love with you! She is the one that changed your diaper, gave you your bottle, bathed and dressed you. She is the one who tended to you when you were sick, wishes she could have bore your pain, but unable to even share it with you. There is none like a Mother.

If you have children, then you know what it’s like to be a Mother. Often, it’s a tough job, with unruly children, and many heartaches before they are grown. Sometimes a Mother is lucky that she has well-disciplined children, but only because she has done her best in order for them to be well-adjusted teenagers and later adults. Mostly, Mother sits and worries that she hasn’t done her best with her children, especially if they don’t turn out as she thought they should, with all the training she had given them.

Mother is a human being, capable of making mistakes. She is not perfect, just as none of us are perfect. But she is the one that we picture as being perfect during our childhood. As we become older, we realize that Mothers are capable of right and wrong ways of doing things, missing the mark, just as much as the next person. But she is still Mother. The thing that sets her apart is her everlasting love for her children and her intent that they lead normal, well-adjusted lives.

Not until we become adults, do we really begin to appreciate WHO Mother really is. She has nurtured you through your childhood, put up with your sassy ways and times of being lazy during your teenage years, and cried through your becoming an adult. But Mother was always there to encourage you when you made a mistake, although sometimes it’s hard not to show disappointment {I am sure I’ve done that}.

As we grow older and have our own children, we realize that Mother was a very strong person, and we begin to wonder can we ever fit into her shoes. No, we wear our ‘own shoes’……..we can never do things the same as our Mother, although she has given us the pattern from which to build. IF we have a Godly Mother {I did!}, then we can bring up our children in the ways of God, so that when they grow older we have the assurance that some day they will live for God. After all, Proverbs 22:6 says “Train up a child in the ways he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it.”

Mothers are special. Is your Mother living today? If so, try to make this Mother’s Day the most wonderful day of her life! Show her you care if only by telling her you love her. Take her out to eat, take her flowers, but show up on Mother’s Day, if possible. You will never know how much this helps Mother to realize her family still cares. Sometimes we get busy doing the usual things in life, and lose sight of the most important aspects – loving our family. And Mother happens to be where that ‘family’ began. Without Mother, there would never have been a family. You might also tell Daddy that you are so happy that he chose Mother to be his wife. Make his eyes light up as well!!

M – Messenger, relaying God’s Word

O – Outpouring of genuine Love

T – Trusts in God

H – Heart set on things above

E – Earthly saint

R – Rescuer of the Wayward

Sandy Harrington shared this with me yesterday……..

Answers given by elementary school age children to the following questions:

Why did God make mothers?
1. She’s the only one who knows where the scotch tape is.
2. Mostly to clean the house.
3. To help us out of there when we were getting born.

How did God make mothers?
1. He used dirt, just like for the rest of us.
2. Magic plus super powers and a lot of stirring.
3. God made my Mom just the same like he made me. He just used bigger
parts.

What ingredients are mothers made of?
1. God makes mothers out of clouds and angel hair and everything nice in
the world and one dab of mean.
2. They had to get their start from men’s bones. Then they mostly use
string, I think.

Why did God give you your mother and not some other Mom?
1. We’re related.
2. God knew she likes me a lot more than other people’s moms like me.

What kind of little girl was your Mom?
1. My Mom has always been my Mom and none of that other stuff.
2. I don’t know because I wasn’t there, but my guess would be pretty
bossy.
3 They say she used to be nice.

What did Mom need to know about dad before she married him?
1. His last name.
2. She had to know his background. Like is he a crook? Does he get drunk
on beer?
3. Does he make at least $800 a year? Did he say NO to drugs and YES to
chores?

Why did your Mom marry your dad?
1. My dad makes the best spaghetti in the world. And my Mom eats a lot
2. She got too old to do anything else with him.
3. My grandma says that Mom didn’t have her thinking cap on.

Who’s the boss at your house?
1. Mom doesn’t want to be boss, but she has to because dad’s such a goof
ball.
2. Mom. You can tell by room inspection. She sees the stuff under the
bed.
3. I guess Mom is, but only because she has a lot more to do than dad.

What’s the difference between moms and dads?
1. Moms work at work & work at home, & dads just go to work at work.
2. Moms know how to talk to teachers without scaring them.
3. Dads are taller & stronger, but moms have all the real power ’cause
that’s who you got to ask if you want to sleep over at your friend’s.
Moms have magic, they make you feel better without medicine.

What does your Mom do in her spare time?
1. Mothers don’t do spare time.
2. To hear her tell it, she pays bills all day long.

What would it take to make your Mom perfect?
1. On the inside she’s already perfect. Outside, I think some kind of
plastic surgery.
2. Diet. You know, her hair. I’d diet, maybe blue.

If you could change one thing about your Mom, what would it be?
1. She has this weird thing about me keeping my room clean. I’d get rid
of that.
2. I’d make my Mom smarter. Then she would know it was my sister who
did
it and not me.
3. I would like for her to get rid of those invisible eyes on her back.
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THE MOMMY TEST
I was out walking with my 4 year old daughter. She picked up
something off the ground and started to put it in her mouth. I took the
item away from her and I asked her not to do that.
“Why?” my daughter asked.
“Because it’s been laying outside, you don’t know where it’s been,
it’s dirty and probably has germs” I replied.
At this point, my daughter looked at me with total admiration and
asked, “Wow! How do you know all this stuff?”
“Uh,” …I was thinking quickly,”All moms know this stuff. It’s on
the Mommy Test. You have to know it, or they don’t let you be a Mommy.”
We walked along in silence for 2 or 3 minutes, but she was
evidently pondering this new information.
“OH…I get it!” she beamed, “So if you don’t pass the test you
have to be the daddy”
“Exactly” I replied back with a big smile on my face and joy in my
heart.

When you’re finished laughing, send this to a Mom.
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Too cute!
“Dear Lord,” the preacher began with arms extended and a rapturous
look on his upturned face, “without you we are but dust…”
He would have continued, but at that moment one very obedient
little girl (who was listening carefully) leaned over to her mother and
asked quite audibly in her shrill little girl voice, “Mommy, WHAT is
butt dust?”
Church was pretty much over at that point…

Fun stuff on this Mother’s Day 2010!
For more on Motherhood Matters go to www.americanprofile.com great write up on Better Moms make for a better world! AMEN to that!

God Bless all the Mom’s out there! Special place in heaven for you!

Let us pray…………
Lord thank you for our Mother’s…….Thank you for their tender love and mercy……….their Christ like love…….In Jesus name, AMEN!!!

In the Love of Christ, Dewey Sharon and family

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