I always thank God for my Mama

I Cor 1: 4-9    I always thank my God for Mom because of his grace given her in Christ Jesus. 5For in him Mom has been enriched in every way—with all kinds of speech and with all knowledge— 6God thus confirming our testimony about Christ within Mom. 7Therefore Mom does not lack any spiritual gift as she eagerly waits for our Lord Jesus Christ to be revealed. 8He will also keep her firm to the end, so that she will be blameless on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9God is faithful, who has called my precious mom into fellowship with his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.


I never know what I'm getting into when I start reading.  Should I read just one verse a day?  Chew on a section for several days? Through the Bible in a year?

I'm such a cluttered mind.  This is my "in" basket. It looks a lot like my brain.  HGTV waiting for me!  Junk mail, receipts from our vacation, bills,  a painted rock from a fearless young artist who mixed fingernail polish and water because no one told her she couldn't (and it worked!), the dummy of the magazine I now work for and the mystery of things not yet seen.

And this

is the aftermath of my mama's 89th birthday party last night. 

Psst...Did you notice I'd inserted her name into the scripture above or did you just skim it?  

Did you stop and read it word for word?  ... or did you think you actually already knew all it had to say?   Did you realize it is a personal word to you, not just the Corinthians who may just as well have been the Martians for all the connection you feel with them?  Who really cares about an ancient society?  I identify more with Jane Austen's world, and it was fiction for Pete's Sake.  (Sorry, when I use the word "you" I'm preaching to myself.   I do that sometimes.)

And then I read it as if it were specifically mine.  

I always thank my God for my Mama because of his grace given her in Christ Jesus.

5For in him Mom has been enriched in every way

with all kinds of speech and with all knowledge— God thus confirming our testimony about Christ within Mom.

 7Therefore Mom does not lack any spiritual gift as she eagerly waits for our Lord Jesus Christ to be revealed.
  

 8He will also keep her firm to the end, so that she will be blameless on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

 God is faithful, who has called my precious mom into fellowship with his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.

I don't think I need to hear anything else this morning.  My heart is full.  This is enough.