Sunday, May 14, 2006

Happy Mother's Day

As we have had baby birds here this spring I have often thought of the following story shared by Howard W Hunter:

"It was on a summer day early in the morning. I was standing near the window. The curtains obstructed me from two little creatures out on the lawn. One was a large bird and the other a little bird, obviously just out of the nest. I saw the larger bird hop out on the lawn, then thump his feet and cock his head. He drew a big fat worm out of the lawn and came hopping back. The little bird opened its bill wide, but the big bird swallowed the worm.
Then I saw the big bird fly up into a tree. He pecked at the bark for a little while and came back with a big bug in his mouth. The little bird opened his beak wide, but the big bird swallowed the bug. There was squawking in protest.
The big bird flew away, and I didn’t see it again, but I watched the little bird. After a while, the little bird hopped out on the lawn, thumped its feet, cocked its head, and pulled a big worm out of the lawn."

I am grateful that I had a mother who taught me so well, in what she told me, but especially by her example!

Happy Mother's Day, Mom!

12 comments:

  1. Happy Mother's Day to you! I like that story, I had never heard it before. Thanks for sharing.

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  2. Happy Mother's Day, Nettie!

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  3. That was a cute story. Lucky you, I hope your talk went well.

    Happy Mother's Day!

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  4. Great story!! That is so sad you had to talk on Mother's Day! They couldn't have picked a better Mother to do it though. I hope you had a great Mother's Day.

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  5. I like that story. What did you speak about in church? I had to speak about "Heeding the counsel of our leaders" of all things!! Hope you had a great day!!

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  6. This story makes me realize once more the importance of my example to my children.
    I hope you had a nice Mother's Day!

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  7. I'm so glad I checked your site today. I have been trying to figure out how to get a category set up on my blog and now I have. Thanks so much.

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  8. Awesome ... I love this. What's really funny is that I've had to fish more than one earthworm out of William's mouth. Certainly he's not learning THAT from me!

    BTW - - have you noticed all the LINKS on my blog?! Yes. I have YOU to thank for that. Of course I had to go back to your post a million times to figure out "HTML ... what? >< huh?" before it finally clicked. But, it's clicked. Now I'm a linking fool.

    Thanks Nettie. YOU ROCK! :)

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  9. Great story -- I hadn't heard it either. And it's great to have a mother who teaches you well. I hope my children will say the same about me someday.

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  10. Tori- Our topic was YW, the YW theme for the year (Arise and Shine Forth) and Mother's Day. At least I didn't have a hard time with coming up with anything to fit the topic!

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  11. I love that story, thanks for sharing.

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