Wednesday Night Bible Read - Honoring Mom

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
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(00:26):
com is where you can find all of our previous
Wednesday Night Bible Reads. Grab your Bible and get ready
because we're about to get started, and tonight we'll be

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doing a little something different. The five listeners of this
show throughout the year may have noticed that over the
last two weeks been missing. That is because my mom
passed away. So tonight I'm reading what I wrote for
her celebration of life personal from Paul. First of all,

(01:11):
I want to say thank you all for the outpouring
of prayers and thoughts, everyone that reached out with condolences
and those in attendance today. She loved you all, and
I can say that with certainty. I can also say
this with complete certainty, and there's a great comfort in
knowing this is one hundred percent true. When someone dies,

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you often hear others say they went to be with Jesus,
or they used the phrase to be absent from the
earth is to be present with the Lord. Not my mom.
My mom always was with the Lord. He never left
her side and she never left his. Now they are
together still, just in a different place than here. There

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are those verses in the Bible that talk about putting
on the full armor of God. I'm not going into
the full thing. I only bring this up to say
Mom was a walking and talking armory. At times, like everyone,
her life was a hot mess. During those moments, she'd
bring out another piece of armor, put it on, and

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go to battle, until, with God's help, she cleaned that
mess up. Like all the Herd girls, she was tough,
and she battled through a lot of adversity only to
win the greatest prize. In the end, she learned to
truly forgive. Letting go didn't come easy and didn't come fast.
It was a trait given to her over decades of time,

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and God gave her the time she needed to truly
rest in peace. My whole life, I heard her say
that her greatest dream was to visit the Promised Land Israel.
Once again, I can say with all confidence, Mom, you
did a little better than that this time. To close,

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I'll leave you with these brief thoughts. Mom had a
heavy foot when driving. She drove one thousand miles an
hour She loved her little Rascal and prior to him,
Thomas and McGillicuddy say that fast three times. Nothing made
her happier than push mowing and weed, eating the yard,

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working in the flower bed, or feeding the stray animals.
Even when the doctor said stop because they couldn't fix
the brain because of the heart, and they couldn't fix
the heart because of the brain, she said, if they
can't fix either right now, I might as well enjoy
my life. And she kept going. And I believe she
was right to get every ounce of happiness out of

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her life, regardless in those moments she wasn't thinking about
thinking she was free. She never ever stopped working. It's
a trait she picked up from my grandma Pima Maggie
with Pema, who Mom will be laid to rest close
to today in this very cemetery. She had something for
me to do every day. I took care of her.

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She was the supervisor. Supervisor is a job too with Mom.
She always went to bed with the future in mind.
Tomorrow I will wake up early, read the Bible, work
on something she had to do, had to accomplish. That
was her ethos in life. Life was a plan for

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the next day. Created the night before, she took the
lessons learned in the Book of Proverbs very seriously. She
made up a rhyme for me and my brother that
stuck with us our entire lives. Moose goose nemoquac no
lo pola le paolu. Last, I'll say this, Mom was
always there kids camp as a child. She was there

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parent teacher day. She was there serving us lunch at
the high school. She was there checking us out at
the grocery store. She was there whether it was needy advice,
needing prayer, needing gas, money, or some other silly thing
like a guitar amp. She was there. She was always
there when you thought you needed her the least, and

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when you knew you needed her the most, and she
always came through a legend. Thank you again. I love you, Mama.