**UPDATE**
Congratulations to the winners of the birthday drawing! Your names are posted below. Watch your inbox for an email from Living Proof later today so that we can get you your gift!
BONUS: The wonderful people at AMG Publishers have extended a 50% discount to any of you who would like to order a Key Word Study Bible! Click here to get more information, or to order your Bible. AMG Publishers
Winners:
#523 – Carole Germain #4348 – Karen Quinn
#2282 – Merissa G. #4399 – Anna Bunch
#2321 – Marilyn Riley #4430 – Nancy Beeey
#2756 – Merissa Ury #4813 – Myrlene Darnell
#2876 – Beth Longar #5648 – Nan Smith
#3937 – Dani Turner #5798 – Rachel C.
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A few nights ago I walked my buck wild new puppy around my neighborhood, watched the sun sink deep down into the horizon, and then settled in back at home. I flipped on my favorite season of the West Wing and I ate an entire bag of tortilla chips and ¾ a jar of my favorite salsa for dinner. What is it they say again? The apple does not fall far from the tree. Or something like that?
You see when we were growing up Mom would throw us kids in the back of Brontosaurus the station wagon and haul us halfway across the city to her old favorite Tex-Mex joint. She ordered a pint of salsa and a gigantic grease-stained brown paper bag of tortilla chips for take-out and she would eat all of this and only this for her dinner. Her own dinner. I can’t remember what we kids even ate, or if she fed us at all. I’m only kidding about that last part.
My mom was born at high noon in a fierce thunderstorm, my grandfather said. Her presence still shifts the atmosphere. A few weeks ago Mom left for a week in the hill country for a time of writing and solitude. The second she got back home, I loaded up my stuff and headed out to spend a night with she and my Dad. You see, for me, going to hang out with my parents isn’t really like going to hang out with the parents. Far from duty, it’s one of my favorite things to do. We caught up on all the life stuff that night. And then in the morning we drank our coffee in our pajamas and by 8:30 a.m. at the latest we had already covered topics such as the theology in Ephesians, the New Testament canon, the Holy Spirit’s role in the interpretation of Scripture, and the Festal Letter of Athanasius.
I have to say, this woman utterly dazzles me. She is the sweetest in the land. She is gracious and sanguine and loving and kind, no doubt, but she is serious and intense and focused and courageous. She has opinions and perspective and boldness and wisdom from the ground like no other. For all her awesomeness she is not self-righteous or squeamish, and God knows I have pushed her limits.
Mom is deeply committed to our family and I’ve always known that full well but I’ve also seen that she’s preoccupied with something a whole lot bigger than us. Probably the most important thing I have learned from her is that being caught up in Jesus and what He is doing in the world is everything. It is the ultimate priority and a family committed to His work in the world will get the privilege of making sacrifices together.
Over the past few years in my own journey I found myself in an unknown place, a place where a heart could break deeper and wider and in more directions than I could have imagined possible. Mom has walked alongside me on this road further than any human could be expected to walk with another. She would have had good reasons to just sit out a while and catch her breath. But she never left my side. The road has been bumpy but also tedious and repetitive. When the landscape didn’t seem to change for a long, long time, she kept plodding along with me, carrying my burdens and helping me shoulder the grief that felt too much to bear.
Mom is tender and she is strong and she is not afraid to look pain and grief and loss dead in the eye. Even more, she is daring enough to hope against hope. To see in others, even me, the beginnings of life and growth and health and wholeness where others might only see brokenness and death. She has shined the light of Jesus on me more times than I can count.
She can fry a chicken and whip up mashed potatoes and gravy with the best of the Southern cooks. Her pleasures are simple: the reading of books, sitting on the front porch, walking her dogs in the woods, eating dinner with my Dad, playing games on the floor with her grandkids, and drinking tea with Amanda and me. But make no mistake she is wicked smart and complex and multifaceted. She is so much more than even the best caricature of her could ever hope to be.
I love her.
Yes, I love her. If one photo could capture the light and color she brings to my world, this is it:
It is my joy and honor to be her daughter and also to work for her at Living Proof. This blog giveaway is just one of many ways I celebrate her beautiful life today. The first three gifts are from Living Proof and the last two gifts are personal gifts from me.
First and foremost, we are giving away eight Key Word Study Bibles. My mom gave me one of these Bibles many years ago. It was one of the first Bibles I ever really remember being excited about. It helped me become familiar with various Greek and Hebrew words before I ever took a Greek or Hebrew reading class. Every time I read it I was reminded that the Scriptures we hold in our hands in English are a translation. Remembering this often is a good thing and will take a person a long way in the study of the Bible, I think.
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Second, we are giving away an assortment of several pounds of favorite Houston coffee beans. My mom is a serious coffee drinker, so this is just an obvious addition. This package will include but not be limited to one of my current favorites:
Third, we are giving away an arrangement of fresh flowers Mom loves. And, really, who wouldn’t like these?
Fourth, we are giving away a crossbody saddlebag. Mom and I both carry versions of this crossbody bag over and over again until one breaks and we have to buy another one.
Fifth and finally, we are giving away a small bottle of Flowerbomb. Mom wears lots of different perfumes, but she most often travels with this one.
So, if you’re interested in our giveaway please do pop on and say “Happy Birthday” and show Mom some love. Your comment becomes your entry into our random drawing. Comments will officially close 24 hours after the post is published, and please only one comment per person. The names of our winners will be posted at the top of this post at some point on Thursday.
I hope you all are happy and well.
And, Mom, I love you!
The best is yet to come,
Melissa
Happy Birthday!! You make me want to read my Bible , and you helped me fall in love with Jesus. Love you ❤️
Happy birthday, Beth! May God bless you and many others through you this year!
Happy birthday Beth! You have been such a gift to so many of us! Thank you for your faithfulness to Him. Love and blessings to you.
To one of my dearest guides through this incredible world we travel through –
I am so grateful that you are willing to share your incredible gift with us! You reach so many that others just don’t have the knack to reach. You challenge me to deepen my faith and study of the Word, and you bring joy and laughter along the way. I have done almost all of your studies and many have notes of life’s happenings in the margins, many have tear-stained pages, but ultimately my walk with the Lord shows evidence of your work and devotion to being a conduit of His Word and His love. I pray for you often, but especially today….I pray for Him to send an extra heap of blessings to you this year, and for you to be sufficiently spoiled on your special day. Looking forward to spending eternity with you!
In His Love,
Patty
I wish you a Happy Birthday! I have really enjoyed your bible studies and your recent conference in Tampa Florida. I was so inspired and refreshed(a Re word!) . Thankyou for always helping to learn new things about the bible and getting me excited to learn more.
Hope it is a happy and blessed birthday:)
Happy birthday Mrs. Beth! Thanks for sharing your joy in the Lord with us!
Happy birthday! So fun to read the words your daughter has written. Even from afar and through your Bible studies your love and grace shines through. Thank you for all the sacrifices you have made to minister to women all over the world. Words cannot express just how much your Bible studies have spurred me on to love and good deeds. Celebrating you today, and thanking God for giving our generation YOU!
Happy birthday, Beth! Thank you for all you’ve done to bring the study of God’s Word closer to so many people!
Happy Birthday, Beth! May you be doubly blessed on your special day. God light surely shines upon you. I admire your fierce passion for Jesus and your family. Love and Aloha!
Happy Birthday Beth! I too am celebrating my birthday today!
Thank you for sharing your gift of teaching, your studies get me in the Word and challenge and grow my faith. Have a blessed day.
Lisa Groff
Happy Birthday, Beth! Can’t wait to see/hear you in Greenville, SC next month!
Happy Birthday Dear One…We sang happy birthday to you this weekend in Tampa! I hope your day is full many blessings! I know my weekend with Beth Moore in Tampa this past Friday and Saturday…set me on FIRE…to RE-charge my walk with my Savior. You were so amazing…I thought doing your Bible studies with my church ladies was fun…does not compare to the REAL Beth Moore. You ROCKED! Thank you for giving your all to spread the Good News!
Cynthia
Happy Birthday!
Happy Birthday sweet sister! Praying you have a day blessed beyond measure! May the kindness and love you show to so many be poured out on to you, overflowing, this day as we celebrate you. Thank you for all you have done to encourage me to study, love, and know the word of God. Have a beautiful day!!
Dearest Beth,
Happy, happiest of birthdays. God has used you in profound ways to change the course of my life and my marriage. I believe God because of you. I love studying the Word of God because of you. And I have laughed long and till I’m silly because of you. I hope my house in heaven is next to yours!
And I am a an incredibly grateful servant of the Most High God . . . because of you.
Blessings and hugs,
Sharon
Happy Birthday Miss Beth!!!
Oh,Happy Birthday Beth!! I am so glad to know you through your bible studies and blogs. I hope you have a beautiful day.
Birthday greetings from Maui, Beth!
Happy Birthday Beth!!!!! Thank you for taken me deeper in Gods word and revealing more of him and myself then I could have ever imagined!
Happy birthday! May you have a wonderful celebration! Thank you for blessing so many.
Happy Birthday Blessings Ms Beth!
Thank you for the laughter, your wisdom and knowledge and willingness to be used by God. The study group that meets at my house, The Wednesday Morning Girlz, are starting Sacred Secrets in a couple of weeks. It’s highly anticipated. God will change lives!
We appreciate you and wish you many blessings!
Much Love, Carla
Happy Birthday!!! I hope your birthday is as AWESOME today as mine was yesterday!!!!
Happiest of Birthdays to one of God’s spokesman. I am old enough to be you’ re momma…how I love your zeal for the Lord! Was at Albuquerque where you prayed for those who had been told they could’nt have a child…hoot! Hoot! She is expecting! Thank you for being in love with God and standing on his word! Love you gal have a fabulous day!
Happy Birthday….today is my mom.s birthday also…she just turned 90….and she loves the Lord everyday….so have a wonderful blessed day and know you are loved…pam
It was many years ago (I will not share exactly how many) that I saw Beth Moore live for the first time, at a Women of Faith Conference in Ft. Lauderdale, FL.
I was really struggling with something in my life, minor to me now… but at the time it seemed soooo big. As Beth spoke, it was like she was looking right at me, and her word affirmed exactly what I felt God wanted me to do with the situation… despite my own fighting against it.
It was the smack in the head I needed to submit to God, and I did so when I got home that weekend. And, there has been noting but blessing since.
Thank you for the lives you touch, without ever knowing you did it. God keeps using you for mighty things and I look forward to what continues to be in store!
Dear Beth,
Happy Blessed Bithday to you I pray your day is filled with blessing from the Lord that far surpass you wildest dreams. In Christ love your sister in Christ Rebekah Farmer.
Happy Birthday Beth! Your teaching has helped me tremendously.Have a wonderful day!
Happy Birthday Beth. I hope your day is filled with laughter, joy and all of your favorite things.
Happy birthday Beth! I have learned so much from your studies and enjoy your transparency in sharing your life with all of us.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU…
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU…
HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR BETH…
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU:)))
You have taught me an unimaginable amount through God’s word. Thank you does not seem adequate. You and your ministry are in my prayers. Have a blessed, day for you have been a blessing….AND laugh a whole lot:)))
What a delight you have been to myself and our bible study group…making bible study an invitation to see how much we are loved by our Lord Jesus, and as a result, how free I feel to love others, Beth !
Happy Birthday!! Be blessed this day, as you have been such a blessing to me in my walk with Christ! 🙂
Happy Birthday Girlfriend
I hope you have the best birthday ever. I really feel like you are my girlfriend and I think we would have so much fun shopping together. First of all I want to thank you for pouring yourself and all you life lessons into your bible studies. I am a facilitator of bible studies at my church in Columbia,SC. I am known as the Beth Moore bible study teacher because that is all I do not saying the other teachers are not as good, but I just relate and love the structure of your bible studies. We have done all of your at least twice and we are getting ready to do Daniel (3rd time) again in the fall. But God always has a way of showing me something different each time. Thank you so much for all the work you put into each and every bible study you do. I love seeing women the first session and then the last session and how God has used your words to change all of us. Sorry this is so long but I wanted you to know how much we all love you and truely feel like we know you even though we have never been face to face. Happy birthday and may this year be the best ever.
Happy Birthday Beth!
Aww what a beautiful thing to do for your momma!
Hope your birthday is beautiful,and your days to come even more spectacular than before!
Praise God for a clear headed Godly woman. Price far beyond rubies to us who care about Jesus’ holiness and truth. God bless beyond what you could possibly think.
Happy birthday, Beth! Thankful God created you! Keep serving and growing!
Happiest of Birthdays to you Beth!
Have a wonderful day.
Jenn
Wishing you a blessed and happy happy Happy Birthday Beth! <3 🙂
Happy Birthday, Beth. You and your Bible studies have made a huge impact on my life. Thank you for following God’s direction for you so that I can know Him better too!
Happy birthday Beth. Live you much.
Happiest of birthdays to you Beth!! Your studies are my very favorite!! You have been such a blessing and inspiration to me!! May you have many more wonderful years ahead!! Love you!!
Happy happy birthday! Your studies have opened my eyes to a true love and craving for God’s word. You are a blessing!
Happy Day YOU Were Born Day, Beth! Birthday Blessings! <3 xoxoxo
Happy Birthday!!! I hope your day is wonderful and God-filled. I recently moved to be near my parents and help them as they age and the church I attend now does not have bible studies (as my previous church did). I thoroughly miss going through your studies with you and pray some day I can convince these ladies to do a study.
Thank you for your faithfulness…
Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday dear Beth, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!!! Thank you for sharing yourself all these years with us!! You have helped me draw closer to God!! Much love and many blessings to you!!
Xoxo
Tina
Biloxi, MS
Beth, you don’t know me but at times you have been my dearest friend, my mother, my advocate, my teacher. I’ve walked through much living with you – appreciating your encouragement and direction. I am grateful for you. Your life is a celebration of God’s greatest victory…Christ in us.
Dear Beth,
Wishing you the very best of birthdays, one that is spent doing your most favorite things, reading God’s Word, spending quiet time with Him, then spending loud time with your Man, your babies and your babies’, babies. You have helped me in so many ways in my walk with the Lord. You have shown me how to study, and have helped me to find my joy in the Lord. I love to study God’s Word and have had so much fun when I see something that I haven’t seen before. My faith has grown, my love for God has grown and so my love for others has grown. From my first study “A Heart Like His”, my world has changed. We started our women’s ministry in our church with that study. As a women’s group we have grown closer together, and in numbers but most importantly in our knowledge of the Bible and of our Lord. Thank you for allowing yourself to be used by God to influence women around the world.
Happy Birthday, may God bless your with many more. May He open up more doors for you to reach others. God Bless you, your ministry and your sweet family.
Rachelle Guess, Fenton, MO
Happy Birthday Beth! You are awesome! Many blessings to you as you continue to do the Lord’s work.
Happy Birthday! You are truly a blessing to so many women. Thank you