Mama Said

My Ben, late 1980s
(That boy's a natural born fisherman)

"She opens her mouth in wisdom, and the teaching of kindness is on her tongue." (Proverbs 31:26)


           Mama said, "Jill, never learn to clean a fish.  For when you do, cleaning fish will become your job." And I never learned.
           On troubled nights, Mama said, "Things will look better in the morning. They always do." And she was right.
           Mama said, "This too shall pass." And it does.
           When Mama was a child, angry words shot across her household like arrows toward the bull's eye. Mama said, "When I grow up, my home will be different." And it was!

           Twenty years from now, what will your kids remember that "mama said"?

"Let no unwholesome word proceed from your mouth, but only such a word as is good for edification according to the need of the moment, so that it will give grace to those who hear." (Eph. 4:29)

Mama and me, 1978