Good Morning Peeps! How are you doing this throwback Thursday morning, good I hope? Are you having a good work week so far, I sure hope so? Have a good and very Blessed day today and week too! - May God Bless You and Yours In 2018 and Beyond!!! - “Are YOU 100% sure, that you are Saved and headed to Heaven when you die? Are you sure YOUR name IS written in the Heavenly “Book of Life?” Is there absolutely not a shadow of a doubt in your mind, that your Salvation is already secured and you’re just waiting on the good Lord to call you home to be with Him? If the answer is “No, Not Sure, I Think So, Maybe, or Probably, then you need to get busy right now working on fixing that. You need to be totally sure where your Soul will spend eternity!” And AMEN goes right here….
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The Third Eye Perspective:
By Carlos C. Brown
Thought For Today – “Dear Momma”
After celebrating mom’s birthday (Aug. 29th) this past weekend with my siblings, I felt it was a good time to share this previously written “Thought For Today” about my mother Gladys, aka “Momma G.” It has been three years since she earned her Heavenly wings. As i’ve discussed on a couple of occasions, the importance of good Christian mothers in helping shape today’s and especially TOMORROW’S society. Especially because “the times they are a changing,” and for the worse. I’m sure some mother’s out there are asking the question, “why must the responsibility fall on the Mother’s to change the future from its current crash course, why do we have that burden placed on us moreso than anyone else?” And believe it or not, that is a very valid question to ask, however the answer to that question is just as valid in my opinion. Because most (not all, but most) children are being raised in single parent households where the mom is the mother and the Father, or vice versa they are being raised by their Father and this mother/father is working multiple jobs to make ends meet, keeping them away from home allot. In this type of scenario, the children are more likely to listen to the advice of a mother in that type of situation just out of respect for how hard she has to work to take care of them, but not a totally foolproof plan. Again, not in every case, but in most. It is hard when there are two loving parents raising their children, but extremely hard when there is only one. Whether it be a mother or a father, the task of raising a child or especially multiple children alone is one very hard daunting task, that’s for sure! But moreso for single mothers, because at least in the single Father’s scenario/case, they can be a more firm disciplinarian for the child/children. Here’s a little glimpse of insight into my dear mother “Momma G” and how hard it was for her to raise 5 kids. Well 7 kids actually because she also took over the raising responsibilities of her two youngest siblings, her baby sister and her baby brother after my Grandmother passed away…It is with this train of thought, or line of thinking, that it was placed on my heart this morning to talk about “Dear Momma!” And AMEN goes right here for sho!
First of all, one thing “Momma G.” believed in is #1. Jesus Christ was definitely going to be a part of your life whether you wanted Him to or not. You didn’t have a choice in the matter as far as that goes. #2. Corporal Punishment was a necessity and would be handed out at will when the situation called for it. And in her mind, the punishment would most definitely fit the crime! The worse the crime, the worse the punishment would be. And she wasn’t worried about not the Police, child services, or S.C.A.N. as it was referred to back then. She would DARE you to call them, because she would threaten to let them take “your little bad behind (not the word she would use if your get my drift lol) away from me (her) because they’ll try to bring you back in no time!” LOL! #3. Family pride/respect was also a very BIG thing with her, when you were out and about in public, whether with her or not, she was going to ensure you knew how to act in public. One of the worst mistakes we as her children could make is letting news get back to her that you acted up in public which in her eyes disgraced the whole family, not just you the guilty party. And believe me when I say she had looks that would put the eye rolling, neck rolling mad looks “Aunt Esther” on the TV show sitcom Sanford and Son was so famous for, to shame. “Momma G.” could make you feel like she had just whipped your butt just by her looks she gave you, especially if you were talking in Church when you were out of her reach, or at a grocery store asking her to buy you things you knew she wasn’t going to buy you. Lawd have mercy! I thought one time while sitting in Church and had just got caught talking to my best friend while Momma G. was in the choir stand, “dang momma, you do realize you in Church right? And as you always tell us, “God DON’T like ugly!!!” LOL! #4. “Momma G.” had this thing that she wanted us to keep our house spotless at all times. She was very big on when people came to visit, they had better not leave there wondering why her house was so nasty or dirty or even cluttered. It was an automatic beat down if mom came home from work and we had not done our chores. A lot of what you see going on in today’s society (problems wise) are due to a lack of proper “old fashioned” upbringing that has all but ceased to exist anymore. If you spank, or whoop your children nowadays someone would call “Scan or Child Services” on you and YOU may end up going to jail or worse, get your children taken from you. And I do realize that in some extreme cases that should be the end result, but the cultural shift away from corporal punishment at home and even in school, has resulted in a disastrous effect on the children of today. And AMEN goes right here too!
Although I didn’t understand it back then, as to why “Momma G.” seem to be very quick to resort corporal punishment with us, I am so very glad she did. She knew that raising that many kids by herself after my father passed, that she needed to get her bluff in on us at a very early age. Mission accomplished in every aspect of the phrase LOL! Anyone who knows my mother’s and I relationship, knows it was a very loving, but funning and teasing one. We call each other nicknames and fuss at each other back and forth especially when she feels I am telling her what to do, like “momma have you eaten all your food today, have you done any exercising today, or have you laid in bed all day?” She is very quick to tell me, “you knucklehead, I’m grown and I will eat what I want, when I want, and then lay in bed all day if I want to, now what do you have say?” She would even bust out laughing like she had really put me in my place too! LOL! I loved my mother more than life itself and it was very hard to see her in the state that she was in in her last days. The only thing that brings me peace now, is knowing how strong her Faith in God was. When I would go and visit her, the television in her nursing home room was always on two channels, if it is earlier in the day, it is on Westerns, and if it is later in the day, V.T.N aka the network solely dedicated to Religious Televangelists. They say that most people never really appreciate a person’s work on earth until after they are gone, but I don’t know that I agree with that in “Momma G’s” case. There are a lot of people who may not appreciate all that she has done over the years, but three times that many who did. I can remember at least 3-4 entire families that lived with us when they first moved to that town/area until they either built a house, or found another place to live. And “Momma G.” wouldn’t let anyone go hungry. She would feed the entire neighborhood if they came over and asked for something to eat, or just came over to visit. Especially on holidays, she would not let them leave until they had been offered a good meal. I guess one of my biggest admirations of my mother is her toughness, stories I’ve been told by her best friends, family, and even just acquaintances is that “Momma G” would fight anyone, anytime and anyplace if you crossed her or someone she loved. That toughness has also been clearly exhibited in her struggle her last 12 years health wise. And like the true warrior she was, she has managed to keep fighting day in and day out despite how at times the pain meds didn’t work enough to keep her comfortable. I told her many times, that she might not believe me when I’ve said it, but that she was MY hero. I’ve not always been the perfect son, I’m so much like her in that I can be very bull headed and stubborn on occasion, when I have my mind made up about something I feel is the right way to do something. We didn’t always see “eye to eye” on everything, but I still have the utmost respect for her and always will. So this is my dedication to her on how much I loved her and how much she has influenced me into be the man I am today. The song that comes to mind when I think about “Momma G.” is Boys to Men song “For Momma” and Tupac Shakkur’s song “Dear Mama”. If you have never listened to them before, go to ITunes or YouTube and listen to them. If more single mother’s (and fathers) today raised their kids with the Pride and Respect my “Momma G.” raised us with, there wouldn’t be any excuses for children who have gone astray simply because they only had one parent raising them. “Momma G.” proved 5 times (children) that you don’t have to be a perfect parent to succeed in correctly raising your children, you just need a game plan and she sure had one, but most importantly, she stuck with it and made that plan a success over and over. Her children might not be perfect, but one thing we did have is a proper upbringing! If we strayed from that after we were grown and out of the nest, it wasn’t because we didn’t know better. Here’s a salute to you “Momma G.” for a “Job Well Done”!!! Can I leave you with a question to ponder????
“What kind of “game plan” do all of you single parents out there have for raising your children? And that question could also be asked of all the dual parent homes in the world today too???”
Can I get an Amen???
“Today, choose to be an example and “Ride of Die” with Jesus Christ! Afterall, isn’t that exactly what HE did for us on the Cross?”
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