When Heaven Sends a "Hallmark"

[Mrs. Warrior]

With mothers day approaching I begin looking through the hallmark cards to find the prettiest and most eloquent sentiments to express our wishes to our daughters both of whom are mothers. I have a antique dresser drawer full of cards my family has given me. In the drawer I have a lavender soap sachet so when I open the it the memories of my family telling how they love and appreciate me fills my senses.

The “Hallmark” was a stamp put on silver and gold to verify the purity. “When you care enough to send the very best”.

God loved us so much that He sent His very best in the form of a Man, carried in a mother's womb, who lived among us, yet without sin to fulfill all the Law and Prophets required. When nails were driven through his skin, they were puncture marks; when Jesus took sin and sickness down into the earth in death, He was the Seed that had to die in order for new life to begin so that God could have children who were holy and righteous. It was His love that became the punctuation mark that said “I love you!”

After a hard fall frost all our trees and plants go into a hibernation stage in order for the roots to be strengthened; let your roots go down deep into the soil of Gods love.

During the time when we were stationed at Fort Hood Texas my husband used to go quail hunting with his short hair pointer dog, Trooper. While he was training the dog in the summertime out on an open Army training area the children and I would find a creek to swim in. One time he came back to our swimming spot carrying the dog. “What happened” we asked? I think Trooper got bit by a snake! “Get out of the water”, I yelled ! We got in the car and the dog started to convulse so we took it to a veterinarian. He measured the puncture marks and said he thought it must have been an eight foot Rattler that bit him. He gave the dog antibiotics and injected antivenin. For a week black fluid came out of the wounds but we nursed him through and he recovered. Later my husband asked us if we wanted to go back out? I said, “no, I want to move!” We eventually moved on to other assignments all around the country.

Years later when we bought our farm we planted fruit trees and flowering Rose of Sharon bushes. Each mothers day my family gives me more trees to plant. When springtime arrives we walk about the yard and orchard to see how the plants survived the winter, if the blossoms open to early they will get frost bite and not produce fruit.

In the garden of Gethsemane Jesus knew the cost of carrying sin. That like crushed grapes, His body would be broken. He was the bread of heaven. He says “behold I stand at the door and knock if any man hears my voice and opens the door of his heart, then we will come in and make our home inside and will share a fellowship dinner”.

Perfect love casts out fear, fear has torment. Think on things that are good and pure even as we see all sorts of terrible and horrible things going on around us. In the news we hear the reports about nuclear weapons, of mass destruction; we see volcanoes, earthquakes, plagues and wars all which bring about famine. It is the hope of salvation and abundant life and the Holy Spirit that lives inside of us that gives us joy and hope. “If we walk in the light as He is in the light we have fellowship with each other and the blood of Jesus cleanses us from all sin”.

My husband and I will watch the sunset and drink a glass of wine at the close of a day as the last glorious colors of a fading sun burst on the western horizon and then fade into twilight; but we sleep knowing that the sun will rise in the morning. It is a new time to have our hearts filled with the Holy Spirit that produces fruit of love and kindness.

Our efforts of the summer growing season and fall harvests result in fruit and vegetables in canning jars, so in the winter we taste the harvest of summer past. The strongman of the house guards and the littlest members of the farm work, the bees, keep pollinating the fruit trees. On an interesting note, if you have allergy problems, eating locally produced honey builds up anti-histamines to local irritants and may help with seasonal allergies; just don't give honey to children one year old and under.

Our granddaughter got scared at the bees on the fruit trees an started to scream, I just don't know where she inherited that trait from? We all comforted her and told her the story of bees. Sometimes we are troubled and we need a hallmark reminder that at that as God's children, He sends help running to our aid. As a mother I tried to give our children enough love and Godly wisdom to keep them safe in their future. The queen bee produces princesses in the springtime so that when she dies the new bee colonies will live.

Around Mother's Day, we'll see Soldiers in uniform at the store buying fresh cut flowers which will go into crystal vases on top of a table, but then with no roots and soil will fade away. In God's garden He wants to see us producing fruit so He prunes away what is dead to let new life have strength; “I am the vine you, are the branches; he who abides in me bears much fruit”.

While the sons and daughters who serve our country are the hallmarks of the best our country has, we always pray and even more now in these trying times and with this administration that we don't get the card that says “in deepest sympathy for your loss”. May we spring up and bloom in the colors of the red white and blue with our hearts rooted deeply in the American soil, the seeds of freedom today for the growth of a heritage collection of tomorrow.

[mrsmith]

Appreciated this!

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

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[Big Red Badger]

Fulfill the Law and
The Prophets.
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Nice,
Thanks