Happy Mother's Day

Your Angel

A baby asked God, "They tell me you are sending me to earth tomorrow, but how am I going to live there being so small and helpless?"

"Your angel will be waiting for you and will take care of you."

The child further inquired, "But tell me, here in heaven I don't have to do anything but sing and smile to be happy."

God said, "Your angel will sing for you and will also smile for you. And you will feel your angel's love and be very happy."

Again the child asked, "And how am I going to be able to understand when people talk to me if I don't know the language?"

God said, "Your angel will tell you the most beautiful and sweet words you will ever hear, and with much patience and care, your angel will teach you how to speak."

"And what am I going to do when I want to talk to you?"

God said, "Your angel will place your hands together and will teach you how to pray."

"Who will protect me?"

God said, "Your angel will defend you even if it means risking it's life."

"But I will always be sad because I will not see you anymore."

God said, "Your angel will always talk to you about Me and will teach you the way to come back to Me, even though I will always be next to you."

At that moment there was much peace in Heaven, but voices from Earth could be heard and the child hurriedly asked, "God, if I am to leave now, please tell me my angel's name."

"You will simply call her, 'Mom.'"

- Author Unknown

Love Makes a Difference

If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain;
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin
Into his nest again,
I shall not live in vain.
--Emily Dickinson


Young Mrs. Benson had been so miserable! Her husband was away on a "refresher course," sent by his firm, and for the first time in her married life she had been left in the house on her own. My wife popped in to try to cheer her up. To her surprise, Mrs. Benson met her with a smile on her face.

"I've had another visitor," she explained. "She made me feel so ashamed. But I'm so glad." My wife couldn't quite understand what Mrs. Benson meant.

"It was the woman from around the corner," she explained. "Her husband was killed recently in a car accident and she's left with three small daughters. To think that in her trouble she could remember to look in to see how I was! Suddenly she made me feel like the luckiest woman in the world."

Mrs. Benson was silent for a moment. Then she added quietly, "I think I've learned something. Perhaps the only way to cure your own unhappiness is by trying to help someone else in theirs."--Francis Gay

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What does love look like? It has hands to help others. It has feet to go to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and sadness. It has ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.-St. Augustine

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A smile of encouragement at the right moment may act like sunlight on a closed flower--it may be the turning point for a struggling life.

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About 200 years ago a well-known encyclopedia discussed the word "atom" with the use of only four lines. But five pages were devoted to a discussion of "love." In a recent edition of the same encyclopedia, five pages were given to the word "atom"; "love" was omitted. What a sad commentary on modern values!

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Stephen Grellet was a French-born Quaker who died in the U.S. in 1855. Grellet would be unknown to the world today except for a short prayer which lives on. The familiar lines, which have served as an inspiration to so many, are these: "I shall pass through this world but once. Any good that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now and not delay it. For I shall not pass this way again."