Announcements
SYMPATHY: to Sheila Scanlan and family at the passing of her sister, Denise Hart, on Tuesday, May 5. Arrangements are pending.
CCS SENIOR CLASS TRIP: is planned for May 13th -19th. Please remember to keep them in prayer as they prepare to go and while they are away.
RECOGNIZING OUR GRADUATES: We will be putting together a special handout with the names of those who have graduated this year. If you are graduating from high school, college, graduate school, technical school, etc., please complete the form available at the Welcome Desk by Sunday, May 31.
From My Heart
Happy Mother’s Day! I sure wish I still had my mother with me! If you still have your mother with you, you should be so thankful and should certainly let her know how much she means to you. Mother’s Day is not
a biblical holiday; it is a secular holiday - but it is certainly a noble day to honor the person who brought you into this world, and who helped you at every turn of the road. My mother went to be with the Lord on April 10, 1978! That was one of the most difficult experiences - to lose your mother while she was in the prime of her life! So, if you still have your mother with you, please love and spoil her today!
I was reading recently in Luke 15:11-32, where the Lord Jesus told us about the fellow we call “The Prodigal Son.” The word “prodigal” means “wasteful, reckless,” and is certainly a great description of this young son. In this chapter, the younger son goes to his father and asks for his
inheritance. This young man evidently had a rebellious streak in him,
because he wanted his inheritance so he could run off to the far country and live it up on his father’s money. As you know, his money soon ran out, and he was left with nothing! He got a job sitting in a hog pen,
feeding the swine.
That rebellious life never leads to satisfaction! The younger son
became so miserable that he looked at the husks of the corn he was
feeding to the hogs and thought, “I am so hungry I could eat these husks from the corn!” How hungry must you be to think that corn husks look pretty good to eat? As he thought about it, he imagined the table in his mother and father’s house. He could see the freshly baked bread in his mind’s eye and even thought he might be able to smell the scent it spread throughout the house.
So, he got up one morning, and thought he would go home, throw himself on the mercy of his daddy, and hope he would take him back! So, he came home, emaciated, smelling like a hog pen, and probably sick from a lack of proper nutrition. His father saw him from a long way off and could see that the fellow walking towards him was his son! He ran to greet his son and was so happy to see him! But wait a second, I want you to notice something that is not mentioned in the story: there is no mother mentioned in this story!
Could it be that there is no mother mentioned because she might
have died of a broken heart as her “baby boy” in his rebellion took his
inheritance and ran off to the far country to ruin and devastate his own life through sin? Where is “mom” in the story? Could she have grieved
herself to death over a prodigal son? It is interesting to me that there is a mention of dad, of the elder son, of the youngest son - but no mention of the mother! Could she have died from a broken heart because her children worried her to death? Let’s love and honor the one person who loves us more than life itself - our mother! See you on Wednesday evening!