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Mom's the Word

5/8/2023

3 Comments

 
My thoughts are wandering, as they often do, and now that Mother's day is approaching they have drifted to those women who have taken on that role for me in my life. I’m happy to report there have been many.
 
Some of us may not have been lucky enough to have had the best mother growing up but rather have been blessed by women who mothered us throughout our lives. In my life, those women
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Janet Starkey
welcomed me, demonstrated love, kindness, and patience, all while showing strength and humility. These women are the mothers of my life and will be on my mind and in my heart this Mother’s Day.
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While searching for inspiration, ​I found a blog that spoke to celebrating Mother’s Day, which focused on other mothers — casual mother figures: “People in our lives that don’t fit the mum role but come through for us with support, advice, and love when we need it most. Some are blood-related, some are assigned to us, and others happen to just find themselves in our lives at the right place and right time.”
 
The blog goes on to say: “It’s impossible to categorize and pinpoint all the people that have 'mothered'  us over the years. There is the friend that brings you food when you’re sick, the neighbor who watched you as a kid, a friend’s mom who embraces her kid’s friends as her own. These women hold special places in our lives and hearts for whatever selfless acts they perform to make us feel cared for and cherished.”
 
I like to think of these women as angels, assigned by God, knowingly or not. I want to thank and honor these women not just on Mother’s Day but every day. They helped me become the woman, sister, friend, wife, mother that I am today.

​1 Corinthians 16:14 — Let all that you do be done in love.
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In His Name, Janet
3 Comments
Linda Scheideler
5/9/2023 04:45:35 pm

Janet,
Thanks for reminding us to think about all of those special people in our lives that have shaped us into who we are.
Happy Mothers Day to you and all of are Moms at church.
Blessings,
Linda Scheideler

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Carolyn Keefer
5/9/2023 07:35:57 pm

I had an amazing Mother! But I also was blessed with some other wonderful "mothers" that walked beside me, particularly in my young days of teaching and and being a young Mom myself. God has blessed me with some incredible "MOMS". Thanks for reminding me of that, Janet! Happy Mother's Day!

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Kathy Baker-Grigg
5/14/2023 08:25:36 am

Beautifully said Janet. Thank you for sharing.
Kathy

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