My Mother and "a God like this"

Mother's Day will be celebrated on May 11th this year. You are so very blessed if your mom is living. I pray you have a loving relationship with her. I'm missing 'mother' today more than usual. It seems she's never far from my thoughts but today, she's right here!

There was that unsettled feeling in my spirit which I couldn't identify. I prayed but not specifically about it as subconsciously, I was not going to deal with it. I'm laughing softly because I whispered, "the Lord rebukes you" just in case it was the enemy.

I remember Bishop Mark Chironna saying that is what we [Christians] do. We'll rebuke the devil and in five minutes, s/he's back again! Isn't that so very true? I began humming in praise and adoration. The unsettled feeling dissipated and the reason for it being there was revealed.

I received an email from a cousin in Atlanta about family events happening today and the rest of the month. Her mother's birthday and passing were some years ago, this month. Also, I added an event to the site [My Favorite Ministries] earlier from a church in Detroit. It was a "Mother's Day Contest." I would enter my deceased mother but the winner has to be present at their 10:00AM worship service on Mother's Day.

Mother's been gone since 1979 but those whose mother is no longer living can relate to this. There are days when it seems like her passing just happened. That day, December 19, 1979 I recall vividly. I grieved as did my siblings and many others who knew and loved our mother. In fact, many called her mother as we did. What gave me peace and immediately stopped the tears were John 3:16: "For God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believeth in Him, should not perish but have everlasting life." Mother was a believer. I am a believer because of her.

She is not physically present but to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord. She lived for Christ. She set an example for anyone. She was and still is my spiritual role model. I am missing her today but comforted by the same God she served from 1951 to 1979. He has not changed.

As mother would say, "who wouldn't serve a God like this?" My mother is the late Viola P. Ward. She was a Proverbs 31 woman.