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MSeaman
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 Gold, Common Sense and Fur

Someone sent this to me in an email and I thought I'd share it. As a mother with small children, this hits close to home...


Gold, Common Sense and Fur

My husband and I had been happily (most of the time) married
for five years, but hadn't been blessed with a baby. I decided to do
some serious praying and promised God that if He would give us a
child, I would be a perfect mother, love it with all my heart and
raise it with His word as my guide. God answered my prayers and
blessed us with a son. The next year God blessed us with another
son. The following year, he blessed us with yet another son. The
year after that we were blessed with a daughter.

My husband thought we'd been blessed right into poverty. We
now had four children, and the oldest was only four years old. I
learned never to ask God for anything unless I meant it. As a
minister once told me, "If you pray for rain, make sure you carry an
umbrella."

I began reading a few verses of the Bible to the children each
day as they lay in their cribs. I was off to a good start. God had
entrusted me with four children and I didn't want to disappoint Him.

I tried to be patient the day the children smashed two dozen
eggs on the kitchen floor searching for baby chicks. I tried to be
understanding when they started a hotel for homeless frogs in the
spare bedroom, although it took me nearly two hours to catch all
twenty-three frogs.

When my daughter poured ketchup all over herself and rolled up
in a blanket to see how it felt to be a hot dog, I tried to see the
humor rather than the mess.

In spite of changing over twenty-five thousand diapers, never
eating a hot meal and never sleeping for more than thirty minutes at
a time, I still thank God daily for my children.

While I couldn't keep my promise to be a perfect mother, I
didn't even come close, I did keep my promise to raise them in the
Word of God.

I knew I was missing the mark just a little when I told my
daughter we were going to church to worship God, and she wanted to
bring a bar of soap along to "wash up" Jesus, too.

Something was lost in the translation when I explained that God
gave us everlasting life, and my son thought it was generous of God
to give us his "last wife."

My proudest moment came during the children's Christmas
pageant. My daughter was playing Mary, two of my sons were shepherds
and my youngest son was a wise man. This was their moment to shine.
My five-year-old shepherd had practiced his line, "We found the babe
wrapped in swaddling clothes." But he was nervous and said, "The baby
was wrapped in wrinkled clothes."

My four-year-old "Mary" said, "That's not 'wrinkled clothes,' silly. That's dirty, rotten clothes." A wrestling match broke out between Mary and the shepherd and was stopped by an angel, who bent
her halo and lost her left wing.
I slouched a little lower in my seat when Mary dropped the doll
representing Baby Jesus, and it bounced down the aisle crying, "Mama-
mama." Mary grabbed the doll, wrapped it back up and held it tightly
as the wise men arrived. My other son stepped forward wearing a
bathrobe and a paper crown, knelt at the manger and announced, "We
are the three wise men, and we are bringing gifts of gold, common
sense and fur."

The congregation dissolved into laughter, and the pageant got a
standing ovation. "I've never enjoyed a Christmas program as much as
this one," Pastor Brian laughed, wiping tears from his eyes. "For the
rest of my life, I'll never hear the Christmas story without thinking
of gold, common sense and fur."

"My children are my pride and my joy and my greatest blessing,"
I said as I dug through my purse for an aspirin.


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Melissa

 2007/12/17 14:48Profile









 Re: Gold, Common Sense and Fur

Thats humorous, cute and touching. I printed it out for my wife to read. She loves those kind of things.

By the way... speaking of emails, someone sent this to me this morning:

[i]You know you're a redneck when the preacher had to deliver a sermon entitled "Stealing The Donkey From The Church Nativity Scene Is Wrong!"[/i]

Krispy

 2007/12/17 15:01









 Re: Gold, Common Sense and Fur

That is brilliant :lol: I'm sending to a friend who has 7 grandchildren, aged between 2 and 8

Thanks

 2007/12/17 15:04









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Oh Melissa, this was priceless. Laughed to tears.

Yup, copy, paste, Send.

Thank you and Krispy too. Our Church has a live Christmas setting of the whole story around the entire building outside, where folks drive-around-through. They use live animals and we live in the South too. Funny stories from those scenes.

Thanks both!

 2007/12/17 15:09





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