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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 Mothers
Thoughts 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
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NEWS FOR THURSDAY, MARCH 8
The Empty Cage

The day before Easter, a man named George Thomas was taking a walk when he saw a boy coming toward him swinging an old rusty birdcage. He stopped the boy and asked what was in the cage.

"Just three old birds,' the boy said. "I'm going to take them home and have some fun--tease them and pull out their feathers to make them fight."

"But you'll get tired of those birds sooner or later," Thomas said. "What will you do with them then?"

"Oh, I have some cats," said the boy. "They like birds. I'll feed them to my cats."

Thomas was silent for a moment. "How much do you want for those birds, son?"

"What?" the boy said in disbelief. "You don't want them, mister. They're just plain field birds. They don't sing and they aren't even pretty."

"How much?" Thomas asked again. The boy sized up Thomas as if he were crazy and said, "$10."

Thomas reached into his pocket, took out a $10 bill, put it in the boy's hand, and took the birdcage. In a flash, the boy was gone.

Thomas carried the cage to a grassy spot where there was a tree. Then he opened the door and set the birds free.

The next morning--Easter Day--Thomas showed the now empty cage to a group of friends and told them about the boy and the birds. Then he told the following allegory:

One day Satan and Jesus were having a conversation.

"Yes, sir," Satan gloated. "I just caught a whole world full of people! I set a trap and got them all!"

"What are you going to do with them?" Jesus asked.

"I'm going to have some fun!" Satan replied with glee. "I'm going to teach them how to lie and cheat and steal and kill. This is going to be great!"

"And what will you do when you're through with them?" Jesus asked.

"Then I'll kill them," Satan said proudly.

"How much do you want for them?" Jesus asked. "Oh, you don't want those people! They aren't any good. They'll just hate you. They'll cause you nothing but misery and heartbreak, and they'll kill you in the end. You don't want those people!" "How much?" Jesus asked again. Satan looked at Him and sneered. "Your LIFE!"

"DONE!"

Then Jesus paid the price.
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NEWS FOR MONDAY, JANUARY 16
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