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Thank you SO much BETH for the beautiful Mother’s Day video, loved it. And Thank you for being out ‘Siesta Mama’!
HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY!
Hollie “Grooveowoman”
Holly! I hope you got my message on your voice mail! I love my candle. I loved that you graced me by thinking of me toward this sweet day.
Beth,
Yes, I did receive the voice mail! Thank you SO much for that!! That truly was a sweet surprise and it totally made my Mother’s Day! 😀 I am ecstatic that you loved your gift. It was just a little something to show my appreciation for all that you have done for me.
With Love!!
YAY! You used tags, Beth! You guys are getting this WP thang down!!
Thanks you for being a Titus Mama to us. I love you for it.
I’m also smiling, because a friend of mine and I are about to launch something really exciting! It’s been in the works for three years. And Lois and Eunice have a place in it. CAN.NOT.WAIT to share it with you!
May Mother’s Day be filled with blessing the your homes!!
Love,
Holly
Amanda must have put that tag on there for me. I don’t know how! I don’t know how to get my picture back on it either. Hahahaha.
Wow, thank you so much, Beth. Even though my kids are adults now, those are such good reminders to keep on loving them and being real. Thank you. Have a wonderful Mother’s day. Love, Pam in San Diego
As a young mother (children 3 and 7 months), that beautiful message was just what I needed to face another day tomorrow! Thank you and Happy Mother’s Day!
Sweet Beth,
Your words were like a warm blanket for this mama’s heart.
I am SO in the trenches of diapers, tantrums and sticky fingerprints and I can’t tell you how much this message has touched my heart.
I want my kids to see an authentic loving and real mama.
Thank you for making it so simple. For reminding me that that is the greatest gift I can give my littles.
I lost my mom when I was little and this message is one I imagined her giving me. Thank you. My heart is strengthened by yours.
Thank you, Siesta Mama!
Beth Happy Mother’s Day!! I am a single mom of s teenager and this was an encouragement to me, thank you!
Beth! I so needed that. How is it that God just gives you the right word!?! You rock! He Rocks!
Happy mothers day to you and may He continue to pour out His love on you as you seek Him and serve Him.
love love love 🙂
Happy Mother’s Day to you! Thank you for a beautiful beginning to a sweet day.
I make so many mistakes as mom. But, tonight the Lord reminded me of a beautiful seed that has begun to grow. If you came by my house you might hear one of my boys say, “Mommy, Jesus knew we needed that.” or “God is good to us.” or maybe “Jesus helped me.” I don’t share that out of pride at all only as a glimpse of hope for my own heart.
I do pray for that sincere faith & fiery love for God. Lord in heaven, please make it true for me.
You are so absolutely adorable.
Thanks for loving our sweet Jesus. He knows………..
Oh Beth.
I just happened to get on here tonight – as my babies sleep and my husband watches a basketball game. And now I’m cryin’. And honestly I feel guilty about it. I’m a blessed woman – with a healthy almost 4 year old boy and a healthy (and fiesty!) 9 month old girl. I have a great Mom. Great grandmothers, etc…And oh, I’m thankful. I have friends who have lost babies….friends who have lost mother’s – so wow I’m grateful for my current situation – however – my Mama (and the rest of my kin) live down in Texas, 1200 miles away from me. And, oh I miss them – their direction, their laughs, their love. So to have you pour some godly wisdom into my Mother’s day – just really touched me. I needed that….real bad. Thank you!
You rock.
Love and Hugs,
Kate
Thank you, Mama Beth! I love you!
Thank you so very much Beth! I needed to hear these words. I love my sweet girls to pieces (3 years old and 3 months old) but it often seems like the days are never ending. 🙂 Thank you for the wonderful reminder. You have blessed me more times than I can say! I hope you have a wonderful Mother’s Day with your precious family!
Thank you so much Beth for this wonderful video!! It’s so nice to be encouraged by a Mother! I did not grow up in a Christian household and I’m trying very hard to bring my children up in one. I feel very lost at times since it’s not how I grew up and I haven’t had an example to follow. I appreciate any help I can get!
I hope you have a wonderful Mother’s Day! You are a GREAT Mom! Thank you for being our Siesta Mama on top of being a Mom to your family!
Happy Mother’s Day to you and Amanda! I Love you all!
I am so blessed and graced by God to have this role in your darling life, Carrie, and any other of our Siestas that could use a little extra mothering. I am willing!
You are so sweet! I definitely appreciate it!!
Thank You for all that you do!
Hey Beth,
Any advice for a mom of 2 teen girls? We’re ridin’ the emotional rollercoaster weekly!
P.S. Thanks for the video, hope you had a wonderful Mom’s day!
HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY to you Beth from a mother who has already raised two and is now, as a grandmother, raising another. Your message and it’s words helps keep me going when the days with a 2yr old do seem never-ending for this 60yr old grandmother doing it all over again. Love you.
Thanks for the encouragement Beth. Happy Mother’s Day to you as well. Also to your daughter. God Bless all of you.
I love you so much Mama Beth!!
You are my Spiritual Mama!!
My other mama is in Heaven and I really miss her!!!
You are awesome in the sight of the LORD
and in my sight too!
XOXOXOXO
Roxanne
Beth,
I’m baking a lemon cake with coconut icing and a sugar-free chocolate pie for my family coming tomorrow. I’ve got chicken to roast and dressing to make early in the morning. I’m making something we’ve not had in a long time…it’s a favorite of the women in my family…Harvard Beets! And a batch of Fried Okra will be cooking when they come.
Other dishes are coming with my guests. It will be so good having them here for Mother’s Day!
I have much to be thankful for. Things aren’t perfect at all for me right now. But life is still good.
Have a very happy Mother’s Day…all of you at Living Proof…and all of us in the community of blogworld.
Especially praying for hurting mothers tomorrow.
Wanted to share a little of how this mother’s day began…my husband is in Iraq. He has been gone since last summer. We were at the breakfast table earlier this week and I said, “Boys, it’s sad daddy isn’t here to help you shop for mother’s day this year.” My three boys looked at me blankly. Then my oldest who is eight announced, “Well, we just won’t celebrate Mother’s Day.”
I did not burst into tears at that moment. I waited until I was in my room 🙂 It was more than this “single” mom’s heart could take. Their daddy bless his heart has sent cheese cake & Sherrie’s Berrie’s (if you’ve ever had them you know he did good) via internet.
Tonight my oldest asked me not to look under the couch because he made me something and it was drying under there. They have all agreed to try to stay out of trouble for the day 🙂 It is turning into a great Mother’s Day and it’s only Saturday!
xoxoxo to you.
Sister, I pray that tomorrow you will be bombarded with love from your Father and your family.
Thank you to you and your husband for serving our country. Him in Iraq, you supporting him, we are grateful. I will lift your family up in prayer tonight. Happy Mother’s Day sweet thing.
I’m praying that you have a very special day today, it sounds like your 3 boys will be taking care of you for sure!! It will be perfect for you!
A great big Red, White and Blue “thank you” to your husband, you and your boys for serving our country! We love you and pray for you daily!
May our awesome God keep His loving arms around you and your boys.
Mother’s Day blessings, Bobbie
You are a special mother and I just want to send you a big hug and say “Thank you.” Thanks for the sacrifices YOU make for our country’s freedom. I’m sending you prayers today that God would show His love for you in a tangible way today and throughout this week. I heart you!
Thank you for your and your family’s sacrifice for us! Praying that God will bless you with a wonderful loving day!
I too, thank you for YOUR service. Behind every great man is a great woman! Happy Mother’s Day!
Donna Benjamin
Oh Ya’ll, what a precious Mother’s Day this has been. Filled with more tender moments than I could have imagined. The special present my oldest prepared was a Valentines Project (that we never got to this year)a bear holding a big red heart. On the heart he wrote, “Wii Love you Mommy XOXOXO” Precious!! I did not correct him. I will teasure it always and it will be a good reminder of this season of our life 🙂 LOL
Thank you for all your prayers and sweet words of encouragement. I love you all!
My heart was broken for another family today. We met an Iraqi family belive it or not! They are refugees to the US. The mom was beautiful and had two beautiful children. A boy and girl. The daddy has been lost for four years. They don’t have any word on him. The mom was so strong. They’ve been in the States for about six months. The boy about 11 yrs was playing a violent video game. He told my son that he was practicing to get revenge on the men who killed his daddy. Many many tears. My heart just cried out to God. I know ya’ll will join me in prayer for this precious family.
Thank you – Thank you! You are a blessing for what you are doing, it is NOT going unnoticed by your FATHER in Heaven!
Happy Mother’s Day! Thank you, Beth for being such a Beautiful person inside and out. Loved your poem also.
(I do have a copy of your poems, they are special.)
Thank you, Lord for mothers who teach their children to love you.
What a blessed gift to give each of us.
I’ve thought so much of my son (17) and daughter (almost 13) today. What each of them have brought to my life. My son – joy, and my daughter – love.
Your encouragement means so much because I long to live a life of sincere faith, and my heart is so full of love for our God. I pray that I have, and will continue to pour these over the both of them. That is if I survive the teenage years – smile!
Happy Mother’s Day to you, and to all the Siestas.
Thanks Beth! Happy Mothers Day. Love your top.
Beth,
Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU for this message! I so needed to hear it. I did not grown up in Christian home and wonder a lot if I am “doing” this mother thing right. Should we be doing devotionals every day, more spiritual “things” as a family?? My husband and I just had this talk. I keep trying to force the disciplines while he pretty much said the same thing you did. It was easier to receive from you 🙂 I don’t know why bc he is an amazing man who passionately loves Christ (I always joke that he is a guy version of you..hehe!)
Anyway…thank you for confirming what Christ is trying to show me. My heart is OVERWHELMED with thankfulness for my Siesta Mama 🙂
Happy Mother’s Day,Beth!
Love you dearly!
Your Siesta in Keller,
Nicole
Prov 31:29 “Many women do noble things, but you surpass them all.”
I just love that poem. And thank you for your tender words.
Wishing you and all the siesta’s a Happy Mother’s Day!
Blessings,
Michelle in VT
Umm..wanted to clarify that statement about my man. I say he reminds me of you because he is so in love with Jesus, passionately loves the Word and can teach like nobody’s business! 🙂
thank you so much for the encouragement! I am definately in the thick of it here-seven with ages ranging from 14 to 6 months. my mom is not a believer so it means so much to me to have older women who love Jesus see and recgonize all our hard work. God is so good..I am in a season of drawing near-He is faithful-Thank you Lord!
Thanks for the encouragement. It’s my first Mother’s Day and it has been long awaited after years of infertility. Praise the Lord for our special blessing.
Emily, I pray you have the most wonderful day!
Emily,
My heart goes out to you! Blessings to you today! I have gone through fertility issues myself, and have been blessed with a daughter:) Hope you have the best day today:):)
katiegfromtennessee
Truly a celebration! Revel in the LOVE of the Father!
Emily,
It’s me…Tammy! I didn’t even know you were on here, but saw your profile pic! I know what it is like to celebrate that first, long-awaited Mother’s Day! I hope it was all you could have imagined!
Love ya!
Thanks Beth and AMEN!
Thank you, Beth, for this beautiful encouragement to mothers.
I professed Christ as my Lord and Savior late in life, and since that time the Lord has given me great blessings as a mother by bringing two of my daughters to faith. We now join together in loving and serving the Lord and teaching our precious three year old Zoe about the love Jesus has for her.
Yes, motherhood does indeed begin with that first knowledge of a life within you, and it never ends.
Thank You God for the gift of children! “Oh, Lord, I love you so.”
I have had the privilege of meeting your two beautiful daughters. They are beautiful inside and out. You should be so proud.
Happy Mother’s Day!
Hey Beth
What a sweet encouragement for us young moms! I ponder the line, “I thought I loved you then.” Hm,what a Savior! I’ve had a song playing in my head all down…also found its way out of my mouth, “Hallelujah glory be to our great God…” In all our mothering I pray that our love would well up so much so for the Lord and for our husbands and for our children and all those around us that it would bring Him glory, even honor, and yes praise! Thanks again. Happy Mother’s Day to you too!
With love in Christ
Regina
Happy Mother’s Day!!!
Happy Mother’s Day, MamaBeth!!
I couldn’t relate much to your message because I’m single, but I thought it was interesting that this weekend I’m finishing a final paper on Isaiah 7:14 – Immanuel. It was a mom who brought God into the world to be with us.
I know we are not the same as your real family, but when you described how much you think of your kids & grandkids, I couldn’t help wondering how much you think of us. I know you do.
Thank you for being our sweet Siesta Mama.
I love you so much! <3
*hug*
Michele
Liverpool, NY
I certainly do think of all of you, Michele. I am so graced by God to have you in my life in this tremendously unique way.
HAPPY HAPPY Mother’s Day!! Thank you for the encouragement, Siesta Mama!! 😉
Thank you so much for the Mother’s Day video it was very heart-warming for me. Thank you also for sharing basic tools we mothers need to give to our kids. I’m learning more and more that love for the Lord is the way and the best gift to our kids. I have a son who is a drug addict and Mother’s Day is tough because we haven’t heard from him. But, I have faith and I know God loves him more than I ever could – this is helps me daily. I also have a wonderful daughter. I am blessed – no doubt. We never know what path our kids will take, but it is faith that will always prevail. HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY….
Praying, asking God to release your son from his addiction. I pray that your son would want to be made whole, just like the man who sat by the pool at Bethesda in John 5:1-9. Lord, give this son deliverance. In Jesus name. Amen.
Thank you so much Twinkle! God bless you! Kelly
I love you dearly too Beth! Thanks for the gift of YOU 😉
thank you sweet Beth… so good to hear from you. you are prayed for and soooo appreciated and soooo loved!! i mean it! have a sweet day tomorrow; i’ll be thanking the Lord for you and your place in my life… how He’s used you! love you!! 🙂
Beth, you are such and encouragement to all of us! Thanks for those great words on Mother’s Day! A sincere Faith and Loving the Lord God with everything! Wow! A great reminder even tho’ my boys are in their adult years! Motherhood never stops…just as you said! Happy Mother’s Day, to you, too!
Kim “Momdukes”
Thank you Beth,for the wonderful Mother’s Day message! I hope you and your family have a great Mother’s Day! I have four wonderful children, and a daughter-in-law.I feel very blessed! They are in ages form 26 to 15. My third one will be graduating from high school later this month. Life is fun!
Thank you, Beth, for that Mother’s Day blessing. As a mother of two young children, it was so good to be reminded that the very best thing I can do for my children (and my marriage for that matter) is nurture my relationship with Jesus. When I was pregnant with my first child I read Andrew Murray’s Raising Your Children to Love Christ. He spent an entire chapter in the beginning of the book, I think, encouraging parents to abide in Jesus every minute of their day and that nothing could bring about more fruit in laying the foundations of walking with Him in our child’s heart than that. Your video was also a good reminder to me to get back in the discipline of journaling. Their are so many truths the Spirit reveals through out the day that get lost in time’s shuffle when I don’t take the time to document them…not to mention quotable quotes from the kiddos.
And by the by, as a first time “commentor” (I know that’s not a word) I just wanted to thank you Amanda, Melissa, and Beth for taking the time to write, minister, and sometimes just make us laugh. Amanda, I’m your age with two kids, I know there are days you probably have no energy to write and I so appreciate your willingness to let the Spirit use you.
Blessings on you guys and your loved ones!
So glad you commented! Keep it up! We’ll love hearing your “voice.”
Thank you for that. I am wipin’ up my tears 🙂
Happy Mother’s Day to you Siesta Mama and all the rest of you lovely siesta friends!!
We love you, too, Beth! Happy Mother’s Day!
Oh my gravy.. tears, tears, tears. That was just exactly what God wanted me to hear tonight. Had a bit of a rough parenting evening with my 10 year boy and 8 year old girl… started feeling sorry for myself because my Mother’s Day plans were dashed. Dashed because loving discipline had to come before Mommy/Daddy date night. 🙂 So, what a great perspective God blessed me with in your sweet words.
Thanks for your mentorship via video tonight. It hit the spot. Praise Him!! 🙂
Happy Mother’s Day!! God Bless!
Thanks for the video and Happy Mother’s Day to you Beth and to Amanda. You ladies are God’s gift to all us Siesta Children. God Bless and Keep you and have an awesome day.
Love you,
Carolyn
Mother’s Day, my favorite day of the year. God has so blessed me with my two beautiful girls. Happy Mother’s Day to all my Siesta Sisters!
Happy Mother’s Day & thank you Beth. I’ve been mothering for almost 32 years, yikes! I So agree with you, keep your relationship with God first, keep getting to know Him through His Word.
Remember that sometimes good enough is good enough when it comes to your job as Mother.
I know for a lot of Moms tomorrow will bring sorrow, I think of a friend who’s son died about a year ago, oh that must hurt so bad. Some of you Mom’s won’t hear from your kids. Some have husbands who are off to war or other kinds of duty which takes them away from you and makes your job even harder. Mother’s Day might not bring flowers or thanks for you. Dear Father in heaven please help those Moms to feel your love today and hope and the knowledge that they are good mothers. Blessings Erin
Yes, Lord, I agree with my sister Erin’s prayer. Bring comfort and fullness of Your Presence. Hold them tight.
Thank you, Erin. My brother was killed on 22 December in a cycling accident & I know today was hard for my mom. It meant so much to me to hear that someone acknowledged that, even if we don’t know each other. With love from someone who knows a mother who was blessed by your prayer.
Much love
Colleen
Haven’t checked the blog here in months, maybe even a year or more. Sure glad I did. What a sweet message for Mother’s Day! Thank you so much for sharing Beth. I did notice something that most might miss. During the beginning part of your message a bird was calling in the back ground but almost at soon as you started reading your poem, the bird was never heard again. I noticed because one of my dogs goes nuts whenever he hears birds calling like that and I was just about to just the video off when the bird stopped. I think God really wanted me to hear your poem and to realize that before I know it, this little 4 year old of mine, who’s the center of my universe right now, will be all grown up and gone. So, I need to get reaquainted with the only one I can truely rely to always be there and that’s God. Thanks!
I did noticed the bird but what really caught my attention was the trees blowing in the background – it was affirmation to me that the Holy Spirit was moving as Beth talked. My struggle right now is sincere faith and a firey love for God – I am so grateful for this encouraging challenge – and for the Holy Spirits’ ministry through this beautiful woman He has privileged us to be associated with.
Thank you so much for these encouraging words. What a wonderful way to head into Mother’s Day this year. As a mother of two young girls I feel re-energized to keep on the road He has marked out for me.
Dear Beth,
I am a woman struggling with infertility, and it is heartbreaking. Literally.
I have become initiated into a whole new world of the infertile woman, and there are MANY of us out there who are suffering in silence.
To my dear sister in Christ who might also be suffering, I’d like you to know that Christ is right with us in our longings and in our sufferings, and He LOVES US LAVISHLY. Even on Mother’s day. Especially on Mother’s Day.
Happy Mother’s Day Beth and Amanda!
Jen
Thank you for this, Jen. I never live a Mother’s Day that I don’t think about those who have not been able to parent but so badly desire to. Even when I made the video, I thought about it. It is a bittersweet day even to many of us moms because we think of our other sisters to whom it brings pain. I think about it every Mother’s Day in our church service as I look around the sanctuary and wonder.
I pray for every single one of you that God will blow your minds with His faithfulness and bring you great fruitfulness. May He bring all of you sons and daughters, and, yes, naturally born! And if not naturally born, may He increase your spiritual sons and daughters 100-fold. Do it, Lord. Do it, Lord.
Thank you for that, MamaBeth. It can be hard for singles around holidays or hearing about other people getting married and having kids. I get jealous because I feel like a huge chunk of my life was stolen my childhood victimization. Would I have had a family if I was emotionally and spiritually healthy 20 years ago?
Even though I’m only 40, I am just finally growing up inside and new hope is mixed with the reality that some things you can’t go back and re-do.
While I can’t have kids, I am still hoping God will give me a husband, and I think about how, after the pain, God restored Job’s fortune twofold. So I trust that God has other blessings in store for me.
And I do know that this long season of loneliness and isolation has brought me closer to God than I would have gotten if I had other people to lean on.
Dear Father how greatful I am for this sweet sister, Michele. I hear her sweet female soul, and the desire for a husband. Lord your will be done. Biblical women we both want to be Lord.
Thank you Beth. As one who finally followed God toward adoption, mother’s day has been bittersweet. My two beautiful children were naturally born to someone else and became my own. Thank you for the sensitivity to all of us who still desire to feel that life in side us.
Emily
Jen, I’ve gone this way too. Yes He does love you Jen, very much so! Keep that truth close to your heart, and abide in Him. Use this time to get to know Him, His real heart. He is with you Jen, He is:) He will do more than your eyes have seen, and your ears have heard, more than you can imagine:)
Love in HIM to you my fellow Siesta:)
katiegfromtennessee
Jen – What an honorable brave woman you are! And to all those sisters out there being brave thru this particular battle. I pray for the LORD’s Grace and will in your lives. GOD BLESS YOU! Sister, you are special!
Happy Mother’s Day!!
thank you for ecouraging words to moms!! Better than a cool drink of water on a hot day is encouragement on a day loaded with expectations and guilt of ‘not measuring up’. <3 Keep up the good work Moms!