QUOTE OR QUESTION©
The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby. - Mary Marsh
 
TO NEW READERS:
Welcome to messages about miracles and other unusual information you probably have not seen or heard anywhere else. You are also invited to visit the popular “God Talks And Acts Today” website (link below) which features past messages about miracles, new discoveries, science as it relates to The Bible, people, places, humor, and more. http://www.AbbasWay.org
 

 
 NEXT SCHEDULED MESSAGE:
Mother's Day Photo Series
* * * * *
TODAY’’s MONDAY MESSAGE:
GOD TALKS AND ACTS TODAY
Category: They Didn't Tell Me That & Holiday
Mothers Day Carnations  #348
© May 8, 2006 Joe Burkey, OK to forward intact
also Iyyar 10, 5766 original calendar

This message is dedicated to two of the finest Christian mothers ever,
Gene Elizabeth McCullough-Burkey and Marie S. Slaton-Johnson.

 
Before you read this message, you need to read message #346-link and message #347-link if you have not already.
 
On the occasion of the first official Mother's Day service on May 10, 1908, Miss Anna Jarvis, the daughter, sent 500 white carnations to Andrews Methodist Episcopal Church, in Grafton, West Virginia. Miss Jarvis program and telegram continued with these words which we still follow today:
 
"...Each one present will be given a white carnation; mothers will be given two, in memory of the day. These five hundred carnations are given by a loyal, loving daughter in honor and sacred memory of her good and faithful mother, Mrs. Anna M. Jarvis, who worked faithfully and earnestly for twenty long years, as an earnest teacher in our Sunday School, who only a few years ago departed to that better world to reap the reward of her labors here.”
 
“Every one is asked to wear this flower. The white carnation is preferred because it may be thought to typify some of the virtues of motherhood; whiteness stands for purity; its lasting qualities, faithfulness; its fragrance, love; its wide field of growth, charity; its form, beauty..."
 
The following year she gave 700 carnations for the same purpose, and over the years, gave over 10,000 carnations as personal gifts to the Andrews Church. Carnations today - red for living and white for deceased - are now worn world-wide as emblems of the purity, strength and endurance of motherhood.
 
BIBLE VERSE ABOUT THIS:
Leviticus 19:3 "Each of you shall give due respect to your mother and father, and keep My sabbaths holy. I the Lord am your God."
 
Thank you to both of you Jarvis ladies, mother and daughter, and thanks to all of you moms.
 
WEBSITE LINKS ABOUT THIS:
"Baby Wouldn't Die" #030
 http://www.abbasway.org/messages/030e.htm
"Mom, not just another mother" #193
 http://www.abbasway.org/messages/193e.htm
 
This message is sent to you one week in advance so you will have time to forward this to family and friends and they will have time to forward it, etc. Please forward this to everyone.

Thanks, Joe (Joe Burkey, McCullough 4-4-1)
 
* Miracles and More© website http://www.AbbasWay.org
* E-mail Joe at  joe@abbasway.org
* Web Hosting and Email Program by: GlacoHosting and Design
* To receive these e-mail messages click this SUBSCRIBE LINK: JOIN NOW
* This Emailing fully complies with the CAN-SPAM ACT of 2004
* If you have received this email in error, use this Unsubscribe Link..