my mum

Responding to Faith's comment has reminded me of the power of praying Mums. Made me think of my Mum and how her prayers have covered me over my 40 yrs. So wanted to write a positive post about her. Mum has certain traits that I would love to emulate. Here's my list:

• prayer and worship. Mum is a prayer warrior. She spends every morning praying and singing praise to the LORD before she even gets out of bed. I can always hear her singing traditional hymns as she goes about her day. When she rocks my little ones, she sings more worship songs.
• she taught herself how to knit and cook. I remember her baking cookies and cakes. There was always a container full of something yummy when i was young. She knitted us clothes and now my children are blessed to have clothes from her too. And she taught me.
• she very rarely follows the crowd and she comes from a big family so it can be overwhelming not following everyone else! She normally stands up for what she believes in and is not afraid to stand alone.
• family and church are very important to her. When we were little and 1st moved to NZ from Samoa she would send us to english speaking churches. As for family...she loves her family and always tries to gather them together wherever she is. So when she's here visiting me, my house can get rather full!
• she's extremely hardworking. To the point of exhaustion sometimes! She does get out of balance with it, but she always wants to tackle everything and doesn't like leaving things for the next day.
• she plays with children. She doesn't just give them something to play with but actually takes time out to play with them and enjoys it.
• she's young at heart. Mum turns 60 this year but she's like a big kid sometimes.
• she loves the LORD. Spends time with him and always remembers him in everything she does.