Never Out of Style
Old-fashioned motherhood never goes out of style because it's all about love. I made people to need love, and I intended for them to first experience that love through their mothers. Mothers are the embodiment of love and care and tenderness--love that even the tiniest baby can feel and respond to.
So if you think you're missing out or living in the past because you're stuck at home "just" caring for a baby or raising children when you could be pursuing a career, think again. Love is the best thing in life! It's the most important lesson anyone can ever learn and the greatest gift anyone can ever receive--and mothers teach it and give it like no one else. Life would go on fine without many things, but not without mothers. Old-fashioned motherhood is here to stay!
-- from Jesus for MothersThoughts on Mothers and Motherhood
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
--William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863), British Novelist
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The role of a mother is probably the most important career a woman can have.
--Janet Mary Riley (1915- ), U.S. Lawyer and Writer
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Rejecting things because they are old-fashioned would rule out the sun and the moon and a mother's love.
--Author Unknown
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Women and children, mother and child--these belong together as naturally as heaven and earth.
--Tang Min (1956- ), Chinese Writer
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The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
--Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850), French Novelist
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Most of all the other beautiful things in life come by twos and threes, by dozens and hundreds. Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers and sisters, aunts and cousins, but only one mother in the whole world.
--Kate Douglas Wiggin (1856-1923), U.S. Author and Educator
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A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials, heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine, desert us; when troubles thicken around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.
--Washington Irving (1783-1859), U.S. Writer
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.
--George Eliot (1819-1880), British Novelist
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An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
--Spanish Proverb
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My mother was the making of me.
--Thomas A. Edison (1847-1931), U.S. Inventor
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All that I am or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother. No man is poor who has a godly mother.
--Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), U.S. President
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Motherhood is the most important of all the professions, requiring more knowledge than any other department in human affairs.
--Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902), U.S. Campaigner for Women's Suffrage
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From my experience and observation, if a family is held together in difficult circumstances, nine times out of ten it's the woman who's doing it.
--Roddy Doyle (1958- ), Irish Novelist and Playwright
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The hand that rocks the cradle Is the hand that rules the world.
--William Ross Wallace (1819-1881), U.S. Poet and Songwriter
NEWS FOR WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20
Easter Meditations
The meaning of Easter is not found in cute bunnies and colored eggs. For us who know Jesus, it's so much more. It's when He conquered death and the grave. Easter is the fulfillment of Jesus' love.— Amanda White
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Jesus departed from our sight that we might return to our heart and there find Him. For He departed and, behold, He is here.— St. Augustine
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The Resurrection gives my life meaning and direction and the opportunity to start over, no matter what my circumstances.— Robert Flatt
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Easter is the demonstration of God that life is essentially spiritual and timeless.— Charles M. Crowe
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The simple message that changed the world forever was this one: "He is not here. He is risen."— Linda Bowles
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A man who was completely innocent offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.— Mahatma Gandhi
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The nail-pierced hands of Jesus reveal the love-filled heart of God.— Author unknown
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Life doesn't begin at forty or at twenty, but at Calvary.— Elaine Kilgore
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If Jesus was alive again in 33 AD, He is alive today because He is God. That is the message of Easter.— Michael Whitehead
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Jesus Christ burst from the grave and exploded into my heart.— Donna Hosford
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Let the Resurrection joy lift us from loneliness and weakness and despair to strength and beauty and happiness.— Floyd W. Tomkins
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On Easter Day the veil between time and eternity thins to gossamer.—Douglas Horton
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On Easter Day
On Easter Day the lilies bloom,
Triumphant, risen from their tomb.
Their bulbs have undergone rebirth,
Born from the silence of the earth
Symbolically, to tell all men
That Christ, the Savior, lives again.
The angels, pure and white as they,
Have come and rolled the stone away;
And with the lifting of the stone,
The shadow of the cross is gone!
—June Masters Bacher
NEWS FOR MONDAY, MARCH 4
Financial Literacy Program
The Extra Mile Ministries is focused on easing the plight of low and median income residents in the Scarborough area of Toronto. Our task is to ensure that the basic needs of a person are met, e.g. physical, social, recreational, financial, spiritual etc. When there is a lack, solutions are looked into and community resources are explored to help our neighbors maintain self-sufficiency.
The Extra Mile Ministries’ Financial Literacy Program seeks to provide the knowledge that individuals and families may use to help them find financial stability and independence.
Financial Literacy Defined
Financial Literacy (fi-nan-shuhl lit-er-uh-see): Possessing the skills and knowledge about financial matters to confidently take effective action that best fulfills one’s personal, family, and global community goals.
In other words, financial literacy means having the skills to become able to afford your goals, lifestyle, and aspirations.
Benefits of Financial Literacy
a.) Ability to live your desired lifestyle. Imagine that you could spend all your days doing exactly what you love. What would you be doing? How would you spend your time? Whom would you see, and what activities would you choose?
a.) Free time. Achieving financial freedom means you can spend more of your day doing those things you enjoy.
b.) Independence and self-sufficiency. Do you wish you didn’t have to report to work every day? Or maybe you love your job, and just want to work a three-day week once a month. Either way, financial literacy helps you achieve the independence to work when and how you want.
c.) Security. Whether you’re working toward getting your first job or planning for retirement, having your finances secured is critical to your future success.
d.) Making a positive impact. Once you become financially literate, you can afford to give back—you can make a real difference in the world.
e.) Helping family and friends. Many high school students tell us they want to learn about money so they can help out their families. And lots of adults want to help others too. Imagine being able to pay a loved one’s rent during a tough time. How good would that feel?
f.) Fun. Buying toys, traveling, gaining status in the community—all these are benefits of becoming financially literate too.
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