Tony Campolo says that all parents should learn a lesson from Jewish mothers. They are always telling their children how special they are, how much ability they have, and what wonderful futures they w...
Did you know that the idea for Mother's Day was born in a small Methodist church in Grafton, West Virginia? It was 1876 and the nation still mourned the Civil War dead. While teaching a Memori...
Three mothers were sitting on a park bench talking about how much their sons love them. Sadie said, "You know the Chagall painting hanging in my living room? My son, Arnold, bought that for me for my ...
Some years ago, there was a cartoon that pictured a psychologist talking to a mother....
A London editor submitted a list of people to Winston Churchill who had been Churchill's teachers. Churchill returned the list with this comment. "You have omitted to mention the greatest of my teache...
One child said to another, "I'm really worried. My mom works all day, comes home to make us supper, then she cleans the house and washes the clothes." ...
As a mother was walking with her 4-year-old daughter, the girl picked up something off the ground and started to put it in her mouth, and Mom told her not to do that. ...
The impression of one's mother matters significantly to most of us....
The schoolteacher asked a boy this question: "Suppose your mother baked a pie and there were six of you -- your mother, your father and four children. What percentage of the pie would you get?"...
I have five siblings, three sisters and two brothers. One night I was chatting with my Mom about how she had changed as a mother from the first child to the last. She told me she......
Chuck Swindoll observes, "Several years ago someone interviewed the contemporary artist Marc Chagall for a PBS program. The young, arty interviewer started the session with a question about influences...
Mother's Reward You are the trip I did not take, You are the pearls I cannot buy. You are my blue Italian lake, You are my piece of foreign sky. You are my Honolulu moon. You are the book I...
Robert Kopp tells about the woman who was walking with her young daughter. The little girl picked up something from the ground and started to put it in her mouth, but the mother told her to throw it a...
As a mother was walking with her 4-year-old daughter, the girl picked up something off the ground and started to put it in her mouth, and Mom told her not to do that. "Why?" she asked. "Becaus...
Years ago, a young mother was making her way across the hills of South Wales, carrying her tiny baby in her arms when she was overtaken by a blinding blizzard. She never reached her destination; and w...
Industrious children leave mother in bed wondering where her breakfast is....
In his sermon "How to Hear God Speak," Rick Warren talks about the problem of distractions that keep us from listening to the Lord: "Many of you did what I did last Mother's Day. You picked up the pho...