MOM, AND HER LOVE!

SATURDAY! Waking up with that aroma of coffee , filling the air, and I am thankful, as I remember my Mom getting up, in the winter,,, going to the cook stove, starting a fire in that old cook stove, in a cold kitchen,, making the coffee in an old drip-o-later,, then going to the other room, and stoking the fire up to a good flame , so when we all woke up, two thing would be happening, the living room would be getting warmer, and the smell of coffee,,, would start running through-out the house,,, then we would hear Dad's feet hit the floor as he went for that first cup of coffee,, as we kids, would open our little eyes, with a smile, for that aroma then meant two things , warm living room, and Momma was cooking eggs, sausage, biscuits, and milk gravy,, mmnn! ,, even though we were just 5 and 6 , we got coffee, half and half, and my mom would , after all this would be looking at Dad,and all of us,, there was 5 kids at home then, with a smile! The same smile I saw on her face at church each and every-time she was there, and folks , that was every time the door opened!! Yes, I was raised not just a Christian, but in a Christian home, and taught the love and works of God in that home, each day,,, for that is where that strength for my Mom came from , to get up each morning and do the things she did for her family with a smile and love from her heart as she did, for her strength that came from the God she worshiped, each and every day of her life, just made her stronger,,, and us also. God bless the Mothers of this world,, for they are all truly a gift from God, to every man,, and this man is thankful for that ......

I woke up this morning, prayed to God for my thoughts ,,,, took a sip of coffee, and the aroma from that cup was an inspiration of the above story, which is true, from this "old little boy",, that grew up on that little cotton farm,,, way back in the country of Vinemont, Alabama.. with a true heritage,,,, thank you all for reading and I pray that you also have a remembrance of a memory as I!

God, please bless all those Mothers in this world, and all those victims in that awful shooting in that theater in Colorado... amen

John HIcks
Humble to have a Mother of such great faith in her God, and that she placed Him into each of us..Thank you Mom, and much, much love from your little baby boy,, now of 70!