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have not been as faithful in the Cathedral
as I was in other places to preach the seven messages
that I preach every year. This year I’ve been returning
to that pattern. And it’s Mother’s Day, so I return to
the annual message that I have in booklet form. The
title is God Couldn’t be Everywhere?…So He Made
Mothers! I think there’s one on that lectern there
if a camera wants to pick it up somewhere.
“God couldn’t be everywhere, so He made mothers!”
It’s an old Jewish proverb. I put a question mark
behind it on the title because we know, when we think
about it, that God can be everywhere. That’s the
doctrine of omnipresence. And I see that somebody who
reprinted it decided to change my question mark to an
exclamation mark so that’s okay, but it’s a beautiful
and wonderful thought. “God couldn’t be everywhere, so
He made mothers,” and perhaps an exclamation mark is
proper because God can be everywhere by working through
mothers with His Spirit. In this book I have some
statements about mothers. Gonna read them
again—probably gonna be new to a lot of you that have
come to the family of King’s Houses since I last
preached this.
“On the judgment day, the Recording
Angel will forgive much to him who
can say,
‘I
never knew my mother.’
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—Charles Lamb |
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“All that I am my Mother made me.”
—John Quincy Adams
“The bravest battle that was ever fought;
Shall I tell you what and when?
On the maps of the world you will
not find it, it was fought by the
mothers of men.”
—Juaquin Miller
“A mother is a Mother still the holiest
thing alive.”
—Coleridge
“Men are what their Mothers make them.”
—Emerson
“To the soldier who falls on the battlefield,
we give bronze and tablet.
But to a Mother, it is a battle without
glory.
She wears no medals of a nation.
Her badge is the furrowed lines upon
her face.”
—Unknown |
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