Giving Honor Where Due

I just love Mother's Day! What a wonderful opportunity it is to honor both our natural mothers' as well as our spiritual mothers'. As daughters, I don't think we could ever honor our mothers' enough. Just think of all things they do, all the sacrifices they make, and all the love they pour fourth.

The Bible tells us to give honor where honor is due. Take time to seek the Lord and to ask him just how he would like you to show honor to your mother. One of the last gifts I ever gave to my mother was a "Mother's Day Love Letter". To be honest, I don't know who it ministered more to. For me it was incredible revelation as to the work and growth that God had done in my heart. It also was a time that God magnified the restoration he had done in my relationship with my mother. To my mother I am certain they were words that she waited desperately to hear from a child that caused her many sleepless nights. I am certain that that specific day, my mother was so honored that she must have felt like the most loved and appreciated mother that there ever could be. After my mother went home to be with Jesus I came across that "Love Letter" in the top drawer of the hutch and knew that my mother thought "That's a keeper!". Now I, the daughter have that letter in my possession, to be an everlasting reminder of the deep love and appreciation that God has placed in my heart for my mother. What was a gift for her has become a cherished gift for me!

God has given me another gift after the passing of my mother. He has sent me a woman of God into my life to act as a "Spiritual Mother" to me. I find myself seeking the Lord to show me ways that I can honor and to pour out my love, respect, and appreciation upon her. There is something very beautiful that happens when we take time to honor the women in our lives. I just love to make people feel special and in return God makes me feel so special. Being a daughter is such a blessing!

As I prepared a new "Love Letter" last week to accompany a gift to send off to my spiritual mother, I came across scripture from the book of Proverbs that God used to lay the foundation of my letter. I pray that this scripture ministers to her as it has become a "scripture to grow by" for me.

Prov 11:16
A kindhearted woman gains respect (NIV)
A woman of gentle grace gets respect (MESSAGE)
A gracious woman retaineth honour (KJ)