Wednesday, 1 May 2024

May 1 - May Devo - "Momisms"

My article for the May Issue of the Buchanan Buzz:

One of the most important days of the year, especially in the merry month of May, is Mother’s Day. But May 12 should be a reminder to honour our moms, grandmas, and great grandmas every day of the year. They deserve it! Where would we be without our mother’s love, care, and sound advice. We call them “momisms” and here’s a few you might recognize:

  • Put on clean underwear; you might have to go the hospital (a comforting thought).
  • Don’t eat yellow snow.
  • If everyone jumped off a cliff, would you do it too?
  • Close that door! Were you born in a barn? (To which I'd reply "Jesus was!").
  • No dessert till you eat your vegetables.
  • If you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything at all.
  • Because I’m your mother that's why.
  • Yes, I AM the boss of you.
  • I brought you into this world and I can take you OUT!!
  • If you fall out of that tree and break your leg, don’t come running to me.
The words didn’t always make sense but if we valued our lives we were wise to follow our mom’s directives.

Perhaps the best advice of all time came from Mary, the mother of Jesus. When she asked her son to help out at a wedding they were attending in Cana, just like any self-respecting Jewish mom, she wouldn’t take no for an answer! The advice she gave was to the wedding servers, and to all of us: “Whatever He says to you just do it” (John 2:5).

We think the phrase “Just do it” originated with a sneaker company but Mary said it two thousand years before. And the context she gave made far more sense than Nike’s self-serving slogan today. Our shoes will lead us astray if we do our own thing but we cannot go wrong if we follow the words of Jesus. As Creator, Saviour, and Almighty King, we can correctly assume “He is the boss of us!”

My own mom taught me the same thing. I remember her kneeling beside me at age 7 when I first decided to do whatever Jesus said to me from that day forward. That sound advice has kept me out of trouble (for the most part) and on a straight path toward heaven. Though my mom arrived there early, when I was only 13, her loving legacy marked the pathway for all six of her children to follow. Let’s take time on May 12 and every day this year to honour the “moms” in our lives!            

~ Chaplain Rob 

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