Monday's thoughts on Sunday's sermon

Mother's Day
May 13, 2012

This is the story of a man who is remembered for his mother.

This is his story:

He was a young man who flunked out of a chemistry class at the United States Military Academy at West Point. He once said, "if silicon had been a gas I would have been a general."

He was a caustic and sarcastic man who when confronted by someone who was not known to him and who said to him, "You know, I passed you house last night." This man interrupted the stranger and said, "Thank you."

When we think of this man we don't remember much about him but we remember his mother, Anna. She had been ill. He made her pose for him for three days. Finally, she was so exhausted she had to sit down.

There is the famous portrait of Anna sitting down.

She is the famous one. He is just her son. His name was James Whistler. Anna Whistler is known as "Whistler's Mother". Her portrait is famous.

Mother's Day is a time for us to think about our mothers and a time to think about what we do to bring her honor.

When we think of Jesus we remember his mother, Mary.

She pulled him from the Temple when he was 12 years old and got lost in the crowd.
She pushed him into his ministry at a wedding by asking him to "turn water into wine."
She visited him while he was preaching and she heard him say, "Who is my mother?"
She stood beside him as he died on the cross.

We are Christians because of the Gospel of Jesus but Sunday, May 13th we remember Mary, his mother and we remember our mother and we think about what we have done or what we could do to honor her.


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I look forward to hearing from you.


Charles Schuster