{"id":10045,"date":"2011-05-08T09:22:27","date_gmt":"2011-05-08T14:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/buddymartin.net\/blog\/?p=10045"},"modified":"2020-01-10T17:17:47","modified_gmt":"2020-01-10T17:17:47","slug":"miss-you-mama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buddymartin.org\/blog\/2011\/05\/08\/miss-you-mama\/","title":{"rendered":"Miss you Mama&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium; font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">&#8220;<strong><em>Upon You I was cast from birth; You have been my God from my mother&#8217;s womb.&#8221;<\/em><\/strong> &#8211; Psalm 22:10 NASB<\/span><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/buddymartin.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/boy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4067\" title=\"boy\" src=\"http:\/\/buddymartin.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/boy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"234\" height=\"298\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #ffffff; font-size: small;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-large;\">J<\/span>ournal,<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This entry is based on a mother&#8217;s day post that I made last year. Can&#8217;t really make much improvement. A child&#8217;s love for mama has no boundaries. Only God&#8217;s love can be greater. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It should go without saying that I miss my mother greatly. Mama went to be with the Lord on Easter Sunday morning, 2005. She was eighty-five years young.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;\">Where did the time go? Mama went to be with the Lord, six years ago. Seems like yesterday. <\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &amp;amp; amp; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;amp; amp; color: black;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Well, now we four children are left with our memories. But such memories they are. <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Actually reminiscing can be a lot of fun when you reach the age of grandpa and great-grandpa. Yep, this August I will be 71 years old. In my figuring it won\u2019t be too long before I get to see mama again. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &amp;amp; amp; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;amp; amp; color: black;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In the meantime let me share a bit of insight on God\u2019s greatest gift to the man,\u00a0our mothers and our wives.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &amp;amp; amp; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;amp; amp; color: black;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: large; font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>The woman in your life<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &amp;amp; amp; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;amp; amp; color: black;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The sage said, <\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4076\" style=\"width: 221px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4076\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4076 \" title=\"image-7\" src=\"http:\/\/buddymartin.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/image-7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"211\" height=\"294\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4076\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mama in her mother&#39;s arms. Cir 1921.<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>&#8220;Enjoy life with the woman whom you love all the days of your fleeting life which He has given to you under the sun; for this is your reward in life and in your toil in\u00a0which you have labored under the sun.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;\">Peter also brings this to bear. Listen carefully; <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>&#8220;You husbands in the same way, live with your wives in an understanding way, as with someone weaker, since she is a woman; and show her honor as a fellow heir of the grace of life, so that your prayers will not be hindered.&#8221;<\/em> (<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/bible?language=english&amp;version=NASB&amp;showxref=no&amp;passage=1+Pet+3:7\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">1 Pe 3:7<\/span><\/a><\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4082\" style=\"width: 224px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4082\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4082    \" style=\"margin: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/buddymartin.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/image-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"214\" height=\"219\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4082\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mama - Young unmarried. Cir 1934<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Here are the lessons:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; color: #003300; font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino;\">(1) The woman is a weaker vessel. (Physical strength. God made her that way. )<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; color: #003300; font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino;\">(2) The woman is to be honored as a fellow heir the grace of life. (Not as an inferior person.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; color: #003300; font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino;\">(3) The man&#8217;s prayers will not be answered if he fails to take these instructions to heart.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; color: #003300; font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino;\">(4) None of this takes away from the differing roles of the man and woman. The apostles were careful in this area to let us see how God&#8217;s original purpose has never changed.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4084\" style=\"width: 222px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4084\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4084    \" style=\"margin: 10px;\" title=\"image-9\" src=\"http:\/\/buddymartin.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/image-9.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"212\" height=\"276\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4084\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mama&#39;s first born - 1936 (Bertie)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black; font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Created in the image of God<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;\">Adam was created first and had covenant responsibility for the family of humankind. But in his relationship to Eve, Adam was not to be without Eve, and Eve was not to be without Adam. Each had a role to fulfill. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;\">Each had gifting that were theirs in particular. Each was given nature traits that belonged to them alone. It would take both Adam and Eve to fully express what the term &#8216;image&#8217; really means.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;\">Since we know that Adam was given covenant headship, let&#8217;s look at what Eve&#8217;s role was in relationship to covenant. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;\">Here again we need to see the bigger picture. There are<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4085\" style=\"margin: 10px;\" title=\"image-8\" src=\"http:\/\/buddymartin.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/image-8.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"221\" height=\"335\" \/> mysteries in the Adam-Eve story that reflect on the total of God&#8217;s eternal story. I&#8217;ll skim just a bit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/bible?language=english&amp;version=NASB&amp;showxref=no&amp;passage=Gen+2:20\">Genesis 2:20<\/a>, says, <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>&#8220;&#8230;there was not found a helper suitable for him.&#8221; <\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;\">Two words are important. Helper is the word &#8216;<em>ezer<\/em>.&#8217; This word is similar in some respects to the Greek word, parakletos. As you know &#8216;<em>parakletos<\/em>&#8216; is applied to the Holy Spirit. Jesus said, <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>&#8220;I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may be with you forever.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino;\">Someone who brings freshness<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4088\" style=\"width: 181px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4088\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4088 \" style=\"margin: 10px;\" title=\"scan0001\" src=\"http:\/\/buddymartin.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/scan00011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"171\" height=\"222\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4088\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mama in late 40s<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;\">Then we have the word &#8216;<em>suitable<\/em>.&#8217; This is also an interesting word. Listen carefully men &#8212; Neged literally means <span style=\"color: #003300;\"><em>&#8216;in front of&#8217;<\/em><\/span>, <span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino;\"><em><span style=\"color: #003300;\">&#8216;in sight of,&#8217;<\/span><\/em><\/span> or, <em><span style=\"color: #003300; font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino;\">&#8216;opposite to.&#8217;<\/span><\/em> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;\">It means she is to be <span style=\"color: #003300; font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino;\">&#8216;<em>before<\/em>&#8216; your face.<\/span> (Not <em>&#8216;in&#8217;<\/em> your face.) So Adam needed someone whose giftings were companion giftings, to make up for His own lack in areas. Yes, the Lord also designed Adam where he could not be a lone ranger.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;\">Next we find the Lord putting Adam into a deep sleep. \u00a0The Hebrew term for <em><span style=\"color: #003300; font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino;\">&#8216;deep sleep&#8217;<\/span><\/em> is not often used. It is close to a death word, in which consciousness of life is not present. This is the word used for Abraham&#8217;s sleep where he sees the flaming torch and smoking oven.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4086\" style=\"width: 236px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4086\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4086\" style=\"margin: 10px;\" title=\"SCAN0013\" src=\"http:\/\/buddymartin.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/SCAN0013.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"226\" height=\"246\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4086\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">1954 - Bonnie in arms and Julia<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;\">Here is where we see some of the wonderful mystery of Christ and the church, but also the wonder between a godly man and his wife. <em><span style=\"color: #003300; font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino;\">(Learn this men, and you will learn how to enjoy life with the woman who you love.)<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><span style=\"font-size: 19px;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; color: black; font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800000; font-size: large;\">The Triple lesson<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;\">Let&#8217;s follow this triple lesson. God presents Eve to Adam. God presents the Church to Christ. God presents the wife to the man. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;\">All this is contained in the Adam-Eve story. But notice one thing in particular. God required Adam to die before He would give him Eve. This is so important to understanding how God&#8217;s giftings of maleness and femaleness work. It is never a matter of submerging one&#8217;s life under another. It is a matter of merging of lives, where both lives count, but neither is to be without the other.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">x<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4089\" style=\"width: 246px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4089\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4089\" style=\"margin: 10px;\" title=\"Top-10.BMP\" src=\"http:\/\/buddymartin.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Top-10.BMP.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"236\" height=\"322\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4089\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mama in the 60s<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; color: black; font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino;\"><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">&#8220;The Lord God fashioned into a woman the rib which He had taken from the man,\u00a0and brought her to the man.&#8221;<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;\">Do you see the beauty in this. God fashioned the woman himself. He didn&#8217;t fashion her from the earth. He actually took a part of Adam, and fashioned Eve from that part. <em><span style=\"color: #003300; font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino;\">(Not the head or toe, but from the heart area.)<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;\">The very first words that Eve hears, are the words of Adam &#8216;sanctifying her to himself.&#8217; Here is how Adam sanctified Eve. He looks at her, and says, <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; color: black; font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino;\"><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">&#8220;This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of man.&#8221;<\/span><\/em> <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; color: #003300; font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino;\">(Apply this to Christ and the church and get excited. We are the body of Christ. We are bone of His bone. Flesh of His flesh.\u00a0He doesn&#8217;t fill us full of fear. He sanctifies us by driving our fears away.)<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000; font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino; font-size: large;\"><strong>Sanctified love<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;\">But there is more to the story of sanctifying Eve. <a href=\"http:\/\/buddymartin.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/image.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4090\" style=\"margin: 10px;\" title=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/buddymartin.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/image.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"223\" height=\"303\" \/><\/a>The Lord made her to be more fragile than Adam, and yet with powerful gifting that were hers alone. Therefore Adam was put in a place where he had to recognize Eve as God&#8217;s special gift to him. This meant he had to draw her back to himself, and she needed to hear him do so.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;\">Husbands, it is so important that you learn to affirm your wife to yourself. <em><span style=\"color: #003300; font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino;\">(Holds true with the wife also.)<\/span><\/em> Even in nature, God designed the male to be the one who courts. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;\">To sanctify Eve, Adam had to drive away her fears. This is exactly how Christ\u00a0sanctified the church to himself. John said that perfect love casts out fears.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;\">Let me add just two more items. Coming back to the image of God. There is a sense in\u00a0which the woman can serve as a type of the Holy Spirit. This is especially true when you consider her nature and gifting. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;\">There is also a sense in which the man serves as a type of God&#8217;s Word. Both are needed for life.<em><span style=\"color: #003300; font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino;\"> (The woman provides the womb and egg. The man provides the seed. Just something to think about.) <\/span><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/buddymartin.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/MARTIN__.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4091\" style=\"margin: 10px;\" title=\"MARTIN__\" src=\"http:\/\/buddymartin.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/MARTIN__.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"239\" height=\"395\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;\">The Word without the Spirit can produce legalism. The Spirit without the Word can produce instability. Perhaps this is why Jesus said, <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; color: black; font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>&#8220;It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing; the words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life.&#8221;<\/em> <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/bible?language=english&amp;version=NASB&amp;showxref=no&amp;passage=John+6:63\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">(John 6:63)<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Finally, when it comes to covenant issues, there is no stronger spiritual working power on this planet than a man and his wife who are in spiritual union. All the promises that relate to &#8216;two&#8217; people doing something, find their greatest impact in the godly marriage.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: large; color: #800000;\">And on to the love of a mother<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 19px;\">Yes indeed, I loved and still love my mama. She was the one who taught me to pray the little child&#8217;s prayer of, <em>&#8216;Now I lay me down to sleep.&#8217; <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/buddymartin.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/DARK_CLO.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4092\" title=\"DARK_CLO\" src=\"http:\/\/buddymartin.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/DARK_CLO.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"221\" height=\"166\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">She was my confidant and the one to whom I could open my heart and she with me. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">And so to all my readers I leave this precious Psalm with you:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>&#8220;O LORD, my heart is not proud, nor my eyes haughty; nor do I involve myself in great matters, or in things too difficult for me. <span style=\"color: #000080;\">Surely I have composed and quieted my soul; like a weaned child rests against his mother<\/span>, my soul is like a weaned child within me. O Israel, hope in the LORD from this time forth and forever.&#8221;<\/strong><\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong> <\/strong>(Psa 131:1-3 NASB)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">And to all you\u00a0women in we men&#8217;s lives. We love you more than words can say.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Here is your song, <span style=\"color: #003300; font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino;\">&#8216;This Amazing Love.&#8217; &#8211; By a twelve year old girl.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&lt;<object style=\"height: 390px; width: 640px;\" width=\"640\" height=\"390\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/WEXLrvMGV6k?version=3\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Always in Christ,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-large;\">B<\/span>uddy<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Views: 102<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Upon You I was cast from birth; You have been my God from my mother&#8217;s womb.&#8221; &#8211; Psalm 22:10 NASB &nbsp; Journal, This entry is based on a mother&#8217;s day post that I made last year. Can&#8217;t really make much improvement. A child&#8217;s love for mama has no boundaries. 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