Mine was great! Hubby took me out to dinner, something we do not do very often these days. It was a good time with good food that I didn’t have to prepare.
My son called from Florida and we had a nice conversation and I got to “talk” to my grandson briefly, he’s only 13 ½ months old so isn’t really into the talking thing much yet. I found out how they celebrated the day to make his wife feel special.
The best part of the day was being in church. We have not been attending faithfully for quite some time. When I was working, I spent much of the weekend sleeping and well, that has continued since being off. I know I’ve missed many blessings by not being there and I cannot change that but I can go o from here. It was such a blessing to hear Pastor preach about Hannah and her son Samuel.
Hannah was a godly mother and raised Samuel to fear and love the Lord God. Pastor pointed out how Samuel came to be a godly man even though he lived most of his life in a home where much ungodliness was happening. You see Hannah promised God that if He gave her a child she would give that child back to Him. She only raised Samuel to the age of 4 or 5 then he lived in the temple with the priest whose sons were wicked. How did Samuel become so godly in this ungodly environment? It was because of his upbringing and the things in him by his mother in those few short years; read I Samuel chapters 1 & 2.
What can we take away from this? Those first years of a child’s life are so important and impact their entire future. As Moms we need to be sure we are teaching them the ways of God during that time. The Bible tells us in Proverbs 22:6 “Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it.” Pastor did point out that if we did not do this then we need to start now.
I am thankful that even though we have not been faithfully attending church now, when Jacob was little we did go and he was trained in the things of the Lord.
Til next time,
Linda <3
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