White as Snow

 They call this kind of snow storm a white-out.

"As I looked, "thrones were set in place, and the Ancient of Days took his seat. His clothing was as white as snow; the hair of his head was white like wool. His throne was flaming with fire, and its wheels were all ablaze."  Daniel 7:9

He says to the snow, 'Fall on the earth,' and to the rain shower, 'Be a mighty downpour.'

Job 37:6

"Have you entered the storehouse of the snow or sen the storehouses of the hail,

Job 38:22

 Cleanse me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.

Psalm 51:7

 

He spreads the snow like wool and scatters the frost like ashes.

Psalm 147:16

 The wind blew dramatically and swept up the flakes till it clung to everything.

Matthew 28:3

His appearance was like lightning, and his clothes were white as snow.

 As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater.  Isaiah 55:10

 Red is set best against a white back-drop.

Like the coolness of snow at harvest time is a trustworthy messenger to those who send him; he refreshes the spirit of his masters.  Proverbs 25:13

 

lightning and hail, snow and clouds, stormy winds that do his bidding,

Psalm 148:8

"Come now, let us reason together," says the LORD. "Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool.  Isaiah 1:18

My snow angel.

Revelation 1:14, His head and hair were white like wool, as white as snow, and his eyes were like blazing fire.

Enchanted with snow,

E.W.

Just a Sack of Lunch?

Here is a story that has been around the block a few times but it makes me stop and pray for our soldiers and makes me ever so grateful to be an American.  

I put my carry-on in the luggage compartment and sat down in my assigned seat. It was going to be a long flight. 'I'm glad I have a good book to read. Perhaps I will get a short nap,' I thought.

Just before take-off, a line of soldiers came down the aisle and filled all the vacant seats, totally surrounding me. I decided to start a conversation. 
'Where are you headed?' I asked the soldier seated nearest to me.
'Petawawa. We'll be there for two weeks for special training, and then we're being deployed to Afghanistan 

After flying for about an hour, an announcement was made that sack lunches were available for five dollars. It would be several hours before we reached the east, and I quickly decided a lunch would help pass the time...

As I reached for my wallet, I overheard a soldier ask his buddy if he planned to buy lunch. 'No, that seems like a lot of money for just a sack lunch. Probably wouldn't be worth five bucks. I'll wait till we get to base.'
His friend agreed.

I looked around at the other soldiers. None were buying lunch. I walked to the back of the plane and handed the flight attendant a fifty dollar bill. 'Take a lunch to all those soldiers.' She grabbed my arms and squeezed tightly. Her eyes wet with tears, she thanked me. 'My son was a soldier in Iraq ; it's almost like you are doing it for him.'

Picking up ten sacks, she headed up the aisle to where the soldiers were seated. She stopped at my seat and asked, 'Which do you like best - beef or chicken?'
'Chicken,' I replied, wondering why she asked. She turned and went to the front of plane, returning a minute later with a dinner plate from first class.
'This is your thanks..'

After we finished eating, I went again to the back of the plane, heading for the rest room.
A man stopped me. 'I saw what you did. I want to be part of it. Here, take this.' He handed me twenty-five dollars.

Soon after I returned to my seat, I saw the Flight Captain coming down the aisle, looking at the aisle numbers as he walked, I hoped he was not looking for me, but noticed he was looking at the numbers only on my side of the plane. When he got to my row he stopped, smiled, held out his hand and said, 'I want to shake your hand.' Quickly unfastening my seatbelt I stood and took the Captain's hand. With a booming voice he said, 'I was a soldier and I was a military pilot. Once, someone bought me a lunch. It was an act of kindness I never forgot.' I was embarrassed when applause was heard from all of the passengers.

Later I walked to the front of the plane so I could stretch my legs. A man who was seated about six rows in front of me reached out his hand, wanting to shake mine. He left another twenty-five dollars in my palm.

When we landed I gathered my belongings and started to deplane. Waiting just inside the airplane door was a man who stopped me, put something in my shirt pocket, turned, and walked away without saying a word. Another twenty-five dollars!

Upon entering the terminal, I saw the soldiers gathering for their trip to the base.
I walked over to them and handed them seventy-five dollars. 'It will take you some time to reach the base. It will be about time for a sandwich.  God Bless You.'

Ten young men left that flight feeling the love and respect of their fellow travelers.

As I walked briskly to my car, I whispered a prayer for their safe return. These soldiers were giving their all for our country. I could only give them a couple of meals. It seemed so little...

A veteran is someone who, at one point in his life, wrote a blank check made payable to 'The United States of America ' for an amount of 'up to and including my life.'
That is Honor, and there are way too many people in this country who no longer understand it.' 
'Lord, hold our troops in your loving hands. Protect them as they protect us. Bless them and their families for the selfless acts they perform for us in our time of need. Amen.' 

Of all the gifts you could give a Marine, Soldier, Sailor, Airman, & others deployed in harm's way, prayer is the very best one.  

Faithfully Yours,
E.W.

6 Foot Snowman

Snow conditions are just right for creating man today...snowman that is!

Everyone got into the game of making the biggest snow creature on the block!

Those light, fluffy snowflakes can get a bit heavy when all bundled together.

Ready, on my count...

Heave...

Almost, don't drop it...

DON'T give up, you're just about there!

Success!

Okay, I'm thinkin he's gonna need a head.

There we go.

It's our ability to accessorize that separates us from the animals (100 points if you know what movie that is from).

What's shall you name this snow creation?

Fred-reeda!

It's blustery out, a 'white-out' they tell me.  I'm stayin by the roaring fire with me fuzzy socks on chilaxing!

Warmly Yours,

E.W.

Pink Lemonade Shortbread

Due to this week's culinary delights I must go to the gym an extra day or two...or three.  I love shortbread.  I love pink.  I love this new treat that would be just right to serve at a tea party or for Valentine's Day.

Pink Lemonade Shortbread

Crust:

1 1/2 sticks softened butter

1 1/2 cups flour

1/2 cup confectioners' sugar

Topping:

4 eggs, room temperature

1 3/4 cups sugar

1 Tbsp. freshly grated lemon zest

Juice from 1 whole lemon

1/3 cup flour

1 tsp baking powder

5 drops red food coloring

Heat oven 350 degrees. Line 13x9 with parchment paper.  For the crust beat butter, flour and powdered sugar in mixer until blended (it will be dry and crumbly). Press over the bottom of the pan and bake 15 minutes till golden.  Next in large mixing bowl beat eggs, sugar, lemon zest and juice, flour and baking powder till smooth.  Add about 5 drops of red food coloring till it turns pink.  Pour over hot crust.  Bake another 25 minutes til top is golden and set (a.k.a. no jiggly).  Cool in pan.  Lift parchment paper out and cut into bars.  Dust with confectioner's sugar.

Faithfully Yours,

E.W.

Boyz Adventures

I found this group of pictures from last November of my youngest and his best bud.  They were born 1 day apart and have been thick as thieves ever since.

Having lunch on top of the roof shed, scaring off monsters and feeling like King of the Hill!

These guys have gone on vacation together, had birthday parties together, they are on the same soccer team, and the laugh and laugh and laugh when they are together!  One birthday party was a 'Warrior Party.'  We centered it around the idea that they are in God's Army and they are warrior's for Him.  They made TeePee's and wore face paint and feathered head dresses.
Isaiah 13:4 NIV

Listen, a noise on the mountains, like that of a great multitude! Listen, an uproar among the kingdoms, like nations massing together! The LORD Almighty is mustering an army for war.

 

 This hammock sits high in the trees for boyz play and adventure. 

I pray their friendship will endure and strengthen as they journey together serving our great God!  I pray they will sharpen each other and be an encouragement to one another.  Proverbs 27:17 NIV

As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another.  They have been given a sweet gift of friendship and the treasure of growing up together, just think what memories they will collect over the years!

Coram Deo,

E.W.

 

Homeschool Pick of the Week

http://www.gwnews.com/

Good news for kids!  

Incorporating current events into your curriculum can be one of those items that get pushed out of the schedule.  Staying abreast of real news is tricky if you watch TV for your information or read the newspaper.  A reliable resource that I love is World Magazine.  They have news articles for every grade level from Pre-K to adult.  It reports and teaches from a biblical worldview.   Each monthly edition contains editorials, maps, colorful photographs, quizzes and the best part is scripture is laced throughout every page.  I have my daughter read through the magazine each month and answer the questions or fill in the crossword puzzle, or complete the assignments built right into each issue.  Then we talk about what she has read and go over any vocabulary or pieces of the news events that need further discussion.  

Faithfully Yours,

E.W.

The Scarf

I was the benefactor of a beautiful gift today.  As I was leaping out of the car (due to being late for drama rehearsals, not mine, my kids) I swung the door shut and there appearing out of no-where is one of my dearest, sweetest friends standing there with NO coat on and her hands behind her back and a Cheshire cat smile upon her dear face.

If I could have bottled her up in that very moment I most certainly would have!  

She began talking a mile a minute about, "how she wanted to give me something for Christmas, but it wasn't finished and I had specifically asked if she was working on any new knitting projects (we are knitting buddies) and that she couldn't tell me and she so wanted to hurry and finish it and NOW it was finished, and I hope you like it ...".(she was breathless and I was completely enchanted with whatever it was hiding behind her back)!  She whips this light rasberry-ish funky scarf out and VIOLA' it was on my neck in a New York second!  I absolutely love, love, love it!
Jo is the kind of chick that can tackle any project with gusto.  Last summer she decided to put bead-board in her kitchen.  Hello??  Her favorite store is IKEA, why, because assembly is required!  I run shrieking from things like that.  I need visuals, someone to hold my hand, but not Jo!  We took one knitting class together and she has moved on to making baby sweaters and hats and now this.  Jo is my avid book worm, D.C. trekking, map-oriented, politically engaged, and most tender-hearted woman that I have ever met.  We have been friends since our kiddos were toddlers and have traveled the road of motherhood, wifey-hood, womanhood side by side.  She is the kind of friend that will bail you out of a jam when you are in Hawaii and you find out that one of your children needs a place to hang in between itinerary schedules.  I am blessed to call her friend.  I love ya girl!

 Dear friend, I pray that you may enjoy good health and that all may go well with you, even as your soul is getting along well.  3 John 1:2

Yours,
E.W.

Ice Berries

My sweetie gave me a snazzy toy for Christmas that I am getting to know day by day.  I have wanted a digital 35mm camera since I have such fond memories of my old black and white one from high school days.  There is just something invigorating about resting a lens in your left palm and getting your glass eye into focus.  Today's cameras are more like mini computers.  Page by page, through a very friendly users guide,  I am learning about my new fellow...he needs a name... 
Today, school was closed due to icy conditions.  Ice is fabulous to shoot!  It gives everything a glistening chill.

Coram Deo,
E.W.

Beer Bread

With two hungry teenagers devouring everything in site I have had to bulk up our dinner menu.  Forever and a day I have served a meat, a starch, and a bag of steamed frozen veggies.  That is not cutting it anymore so I have had to think of a fourth dinner item.  Beer bread is a snap to throw together.  Because the beer acts as the yeast there is no delay in baking it immediately.  I buy the cheapest 6-pack of beer and tuck it in the pantry for when I want to whip this up.

Beer Bread Recipe
3 cups flour
3 tsp baking powder
1 1/2 tsp salt
3 T sugar
can of beer
2T melted butter
Sift the dry ingredients then add the can of beer, mix.  
Pour into greased 9x5 loaf pan and pour melted butter on top.  Bake for about 50 minutes.  You can spruce it up with cheese or garlic salt.

Enjoy,
E.W.

Psalm 118:24

Have a blessed Lord's Day,
E.W.

A New Do

Girlfriend got herself a new do!  Bangs, it was the monumental decisions of the day!  I love seeing her big brown eyes!  I remember when she was little we played the song Brown Eyed Girl  by Van Morriason and a week or so later she said, "Mommy will you play that "Eye-brow"  song again!

Her Momma,

E.W.

The Basement Door

Our basement doors has 5 sheets of paper taped to it.  They change year to year.  We just hung this year's individual goals.  Each person writes up their goals and dreams for the upcoming year.  Here is a sneak at 2011 lists...

I like what big Daddio wrote here about learning to play the drums.  The DRUMS????  Oh, dear...we may have to have a little chat about this, I am hoping he means on Band Hero!

This is yours truly's goals.

This one belongs to the 15 year old.  I like that he wrote he wants to pay attention to his relationships!

Can you see any difference between girls and boys here?  My girl is very introspective and relational!  She wants to serve her grandparents, convert someone to Christianity :) and learn to do a split.  Love it!

And last but not least is the 8 year old writing his personal goals.  One of his goals this year to to light sticks on fire in the outdoor fire pit!  Like father like son...He also wrote that he wants to do things that are unexpected like chores...I love this kid!

These papers serve as reminders and benchmarks for the journey.  We read in Proverbs this morning in our devotional time:

Wisdom rests in the heart of him who has understanding, but what is in the heart of fools is made known.

I love to get a glimpse of what is in my families hearts.  We talked about what is means to have understanding and to have our lives reflect that we do indeed have wisdom.  What we fill our eyes, minds, ears with will show what lies within.  I pray for my kids hearts to be tender towards God, to seek Him and favor His Word.
I pray they will have hearts pliable for the Maker to mold.  I pray they will be sold out for God!

Coram Deo,
E.W.

Say Night-Night

One day he won't want me to tuck him in anymore.  But for right now he still does, and I am so very glad that he does.  He is my third child, the last one to still linger over tuck-in-bed-conversation.  We have a ritual.  Just he and I.  It never changes order.  It follows a nightly pattern of love and security.

KISS

HUG

HOLD YOUR TWO HANDS

SNUGGLE

NOSE-EEz

KISSY BIRD

 TWIDDLEY FINGERS

 

 WIGGLEY FINGERS

THUMB WAR

BUTTERFLY KISSES

HAIR-EEz

TICKLES

This is the part when I invariably get a knee to the chest or bopped in the chin!

BELLY RUB

This is when a song is requested, usually Froggy Went a Courtin.  Other times I'll sing Day by Day or I Love You Lord or a surprise pick of the night.

PRAY

May  your father and mother be glad; may she who gave you birth rejoice!  Proverbs 23:25

I love you Gabriel!

What does your kiddos night time tuck-in look like?

Blessed,

E.W.

• Genesis 2:24 NIV

  For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.
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• Genesis 3:20 NIV

  Adam named his wife Eve, because she would become the mother of all the living.
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• Genesis 17:16 NIV

  I will bless her and will surely give you a son by her. I will bless her so that she will be the mother of nations; kings of peoples will come from her."
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• Genesis 20:12 NIV

  Besides, she really is my sister, the daughter of my father though not of my mother; and she became my wife.
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• Genesis 21:21 NIV

  While he was living in the Desert of Paran, his mother got a wife for him from Egypt.
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• Genesis 22:20 NIV

  [Nahor's Sons] Some time later Abraham was told, "Milcah is also a mother; she has borne sons to your brother Nahor:
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• Genesis 24:28 NIV

  The girl ran and told her mother's household about these things.
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• Genesis 24:53 NIV

  Then the servant brought out gold and silver jewelry and articles of clothing and gave them to Rebekah; he also gave costly gifts to her brother and to her mother.
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• Genesis 24:55 NIV

  But her brother and her mother replied, "Let the girl remain with us ten days or so; then you may go."
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• Genesis 24:67 NIV

  Isaac brought her into the tent of his mother Sarah, and he married Rebekah. So she became his wife, and he loved her; and Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.
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• Genesis 27:11 NIV

  Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, "But my brother Esau is a hairy man, and I'm a man with smooth skin.
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• Genesis 27:13 NIV

  His mother said to him, "My son, let the curse fall on me. Just do what I say; go and get them for me."
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• Genesis 27:14 NIV

  So he went and got them and brought them to his mother, and she prepared some tasty food, just the way his father liked it.
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• Genesis 27:29 NIV

  May nations serve you and peoples bow down to you. Be lord over your brothers, and may the sons of your mother bow down to you. May those who curse you be cursed and those who bless you be blessed."
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• Genesis 28:2 NIV

  Go at once to Paddan Aram, to the house of your mother's father Bethuel. Take a wife for yourself there, from among the daughters of Laban, your mother's brother.
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• Genesis 28:5 NIV

  Then Isaac sent Jacob on his way, and he went to Paddan Aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, who was the mother of Jacob and Esau.
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• Genesis 28:7 NIV

  and that Jacob had obeyed his father and mother and had gone to Paddan Aram.
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• Genesis 29:10 NIV

  When Jacob saw Rachel daughter of Laban, his mother's brother, and Laban's sheep, he went over and rolled the stone away from the mouth of the well and watered his uncle's sheep.
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• Genesis 30:14 NIV

  During wheat harvest, Reuben went out into the fields and found some mandrake plants, which he brought to his mother Leah. Rachel said to Leah, "Please give me some of your son's mandrakes."
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• Genesis 37:10 NIV

  When he told his father as well as his brothers, his father rebuked him and said, "What is this dream you had? Will your mother and I and your brothers actually come and bow down to the ground before you?"
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• Genesis 43:29 NIV

  As he looked about and saw his brother Benjamin, his own mother's son, he asked, "Is this your youngest brother, the one you told me about?" And he said, "God be gracious to you, my son."
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• Genesis 44:20 NIV

  And we answered, 'We have an aged father, and there is a young son born to him in his old age. His brother is dead, and he is the only one of his mother's sons left, and his father loves him.'
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• Exodus 2:8 NIV

  "Yes, go," she answered. And the girl went and got the baby's mother.
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• Exodus 20:12 NIV

  "Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the LORD your God is giving you.
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• Exodus 21:15 NIV

  "Anyone who attacks his father or his mother must be put to death.
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• Exodus 21:17 NIV

  "Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.
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• Exodus 23:19 NIV

  "Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of the LORD your God. "Do not cook a young goat in its mother's milk.
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• Exodus 34:26 NIV

  "Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of the LORD your God. "Do not cook a young goat in its mother's milk."
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• Leviticus 18:7 NIV

  " 'Do not dishonor your father by having sexual relations with your mother. She is your mother; do not have relations with her.
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• Leviticus 18:9 NIV

  " 'Do not have sexual relations with your sister, either your father's daughter or your mother's daughter, whether she was born in the same home or elsewhere.
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• Leviticus 18:13 NIV

  " 'Do not have sexual relations with your mother's sister, because she is your mother's close relative.
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• Leviticus 19:3 NIV

  " 'Each of you must respect his mother and father, and you must observe my Sabbaths. I am the LORD your God.
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• Leviticus 20:9 NIV

  " 'If anyone curses his father or mother, he must be put to death. He has cursed his father or his mother, and his blood will be on his own head.
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• Leviticus 20:14 NIV

  " 'If a man marries both a woman and her mother, it is wicked. Both he and they must be burned in the fire, so that no wickedness will be among you.
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• Leviticus 20:17 NIV

  " 'If a man marries his sister, the daughter of either his father or his mother, and they have sexual relations, it is a disgrace. They must be cut off before the eyes of their people. He has dishonored his sister and will be held responsible.
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• Leviticus 20:19 NIV

  " 'Do not have sexual relations with the sister of either your mother or your father, for that would dishonor a close relative; both of you would be held responsible.
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• Leviticus 21:2 NIV

  except for a close relative, such as his mother or father, his son or daughter, his brother,
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• Leviticus 21:11 NIV

  He must not enter a place where there is a dead body. He must not make himself unclean, even for his father or mother,
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• Leviticus 22:27 NIV

  "When a calf, a lamb or a goat is born, it is to remain with its mother for seven days. From the eighth day on, it will be acceptable as an offering made to the LORD by fire.
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• Leviticus 24:10 NIV

  [A Blasphemer Stoned] Now the son of an Israelite mother and an Egyptian father went out among the Israelites, and a fight broke out in the camp between him and an Israelite.
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• Leviticus 24:11 NIV

  The son of the Israelite woman blasphemed the Name with a curse; so they brought him to Moses. (His mother's name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri the Danite.)
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• Numbers 6:7 NIV

  Even if his own father or mother or brother or sister dies, he must not make himself ceremonially unclean on account of them, because the symbol of his separation to God is on his head.
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• Numbers 12:12 NIV

  Do not let her be like a stillborn infant coming from its mother's womb with its flesh half eaten away."
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• Deuteronomy 5:16 NIV

  "Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you, so that you may live long and that it may go well with you in the land the LORD your God is giving you.
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• Deuteronomy 14:21 NIV

  Do not eat anything you find already dead. You may give it to an alien living in any of your towns, and he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. But you are a people holy to the LORD your God. Do not cook a young goat in its mother's milk.
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• Deuteronomy 21:13 NIV

  and put aside the clothes she was wearing when captured. After she has lived in your house and mourned her father and mother for a full month, then you may go to her and be her husband and she shall be your wife.
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• Deuteronomy 21:18 NIV

  [A Rebellious Son] If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father and mother and will not listen to them when they discipline him,
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• Deuteronomy 21:19 NIV

  his father and mother shall take hold of him and bring him to the elders at the gate of his town.
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• Deuteronomy 22:6 NIV

  If you come across a bird's nest beside the road, either in a tree or on the ground, and the mother is sitting on the young or on the eggs, do not take the mother with the young.
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• Deuteronomy 22:7 NIV

  You may take the young, but be sure to let the mother go, so that it may go well with you and you may have a long life.
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• Deuteronomy 22:15 NIV

  then the girl's father and mother shall bring proof that she was a virgin to the town elders at the gate.
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• Deuteronomy 27:16 NIV

  "Cursed is the man who dishonors his father or his mother." Then all the people shall say, "Amen!"
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• Deuteronomy 27:22 NIV

  "Cursed is the man who sleeps with his sister, the daughter of his father or the daughter of his mother." Then all the people shall say, "Amen!"
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• Deuteronomy 27:23 NIV

  "Cursed is the man who sleeps with his mother-in-law." Then all the people shall say, "Amen!"
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• Deuteronomy 33:9 NIV

  He said of his father and mother, 'I have no regard for them.' He did not recognize his brothers or acknowledge his own children, but he watched over your word and guarded your covenant.
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• Joshua 2:13 NIV

  that you will spare the lives of my father and mother, my brothers and sisters, and all who belong to them, and that you will save us from death."
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• Joshua 2:18 NIV

  unless, when we enter the land, you have tied this scarlet cord in the window through which you let us down, and unless you have brought your father and mother, your brothers and all your family into your house.
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• Joshua 6:23 NIV

  So the young men who had done the spying went in and brought out Rahab, her father and mother and brothers and all who belonged to her. They brought out her entire family and put them in a place outside the camp of Israel.
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• Judges 5:7 NIV

  Village life in Israel ceased, ceased until I, Deborah, arose, arose a mother in Israel.
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• Judges 5:28 NIV

  "Through the window peered Sisera's mother; behind the lattice she cried out, 'Why is his chariot so long in coming? Why is the clatter of his chariots delayed?'
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• Judges 8:19 NIV

  Gideon replied, "Those were my brothers, the sons of my own mother. As surely as the LORD lives, if you had spared their lives, I would not kill you."
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• Judges 9:1 NIV

  [Abimelech] Abimelech son of Jerub-Baal went to his mother's brothers in Shechem and said to them and to all his mother's clan,
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• Judges 11:1 NIV

  Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty warrior. His father was Gilead; his mother was a prostitute.
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• Judges 14:2 NIV

  When he returned, he said to his father and mother, "I have seen a Philistine woman in Timnah; now get her for me as my wife."
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• Judges 14:3 NIV

  His father and mother replied, "Isn't there an acceptable woman among your relatives or among all our people? Must you go to the uncircumcised Philistines to get a wife?" But Samson said to his father, "Get her for me. She's the right one for me."
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• Judges 14:5 NIV

  Samson went down to Timnah together with his father and mother. As they approached the vineyards of Timnah, suddenly a young lion came roaring toward him.
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• Judges 14:6 NIV

  The Spirit of the LORD came upon him in power so that he tore the lion apart with his bare hands as he might have torn a young goat. But he told neither his father nor his mother what he had done.
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• Judges 14:16 NIV

  Then Samson's wife threw herself on him, sobbing, "You hate me! You don't really love me. You've given my people a riddle, but you haven't told me the answer." "I haven't even explained it to my father or mother," he replied, "so why should I explain it to you?"
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• Judges 17:2 NIV

  said to his mother, "The eleven hundred shekels of silver that were taken from you and about which I heard you utter a curse--I have that silver with me; I took it." Then his mother said, "The LORD bless you, my son!"
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• Judges 17:3 NIV

  When he returned the eleven hundred shekels of silver to his mother, she said, "I solemnly consecrate my silver to the LORD for my son to make a carved image and a cast idol. I will give it back to you."
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• Judges 17:4 NIV

  So he returned the silver to his mother, and she took two hundred shekels of silver and gave them to a silversmith, who made them into the image and the idol. And they were put in Micah's house.
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• Ruth 1:8 NIV

  Then Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, "Go back, each of you, to your mother's home. May the LORD show kindness to you, as you have shown to your dead and to me.
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• Ruth 1:14 NIV

  At this they wept again. Then Orpah kissed her mother-in-law good-by, but Ruth clung to her.
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• Ruth 2:11 NIV

  Boaz replied, "I've been told all about what you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband--how you left your father and mother and your homeland and came to live with a people you did not know before.
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• Ruth 2:18 NIV

  She carried it back to town, and her mother-in-law saw how much she had gathered. Ruth also brought out and gave her what she had left over after she had eaten enough.
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• Ruth 2:19 NIV

  Her mother-in-law asked her, "Where did you glean today? Where did you work? Blessed be the man who took notice of you!" Then Ruth told her mother-in-law about the one at whose place she had been working. "The name of the man I worked with today is Boaz," she said.
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• Ruth 2:23 NIV

  So Ruth stayed close to the servant girls of Boaz to glean until the barley and wheat harvests were finished. And she lived with her mother-in-law.
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• Ruth 3:1 NIV

  [Ruth and Boaz at the Threshing Floor] One day Naomi her mother-in-law said to her, "My daughter, should I not try to find a home for you, where you will be well provided for?
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• Ruth 3:6 NIV

  So she went down to the threshing floor and did everything her mother-in-law told her to do.
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• Ruth 3:16 NIV

  When Ruth came to her mother-in-law, Naomi asked, "How did it go, my daughter?" Then she told her everything Boaz had done for her
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• Ruth 3:17 NIV

  and added, "He gave me these six measures of barley, saying, 'Don't go back to your mother-in-law empty-handed.' "
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• 1 Samuel 2:19 NIV

  Each year his mother made him a little robe and took it to him when she went up with her husband to offer the annual sacrifice.
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• 1 Samuel 15:33 NIV

  But Samuel said, "As your sword has made women childless, so will your mother be childless among women." And Samuel put Agag to death before the LORD at Gilgal.
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• 1 Samuel 20:30 NIV

  Saul's anger flared up at Jonathan and he said to him, "You son of a perverse and rebellious woman! Don't I know that you have sided with the son of Jesse to your own shame and to the shame of the mother who bore you?
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• 1 Samuel 22:3 NIV

  From there David went to Mizpah in Moab and said to the king of Moab, "Would you let my father and mother come and stay with you until I learn what God will do for me?"
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• 2 Samuel 17:25 NIV

  Absalom had appointed Amasa over the army in place of Joab. Amasa was the son of a man named Jether, an Israelite who had married Abigail, the daughter of Nahash and sister of Zeruiah the mother of Joab.
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• 2 Samuel 19:37 NIV

  Let your servant return, that I may die in my own town near the tomb of my father and mother. But here is your servant Kimham. Let him cross over with my lord the king. Do for him whatever pleases you."
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• 2 Samuel 20:19 NIV

  We are the peaceful and faithful in Israel. You are trying to destroy a city that is a mother in Israel. Why do you want to swallow up the LORD's inheritance?"
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• 1 Kings 1:5 NIV

  Now Adonijah, whose mother was Haggith, put himself forward and said, "I will be king." So he got chariots and horses ready, with fifty men to run ahead of him.
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• 1 Kings 1:11 NIV

  Then Nathan asked Bathsheba, Solomon's mother, "Have you not heard that Adonijah, the son of Haggith, has become king without our lord David's knowing it?
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• 1 Kings 2:13 NIV

  [Solomon's Throne Established] Now Adonijah, the son of Haggith, went to Bathsheba, Solomon's mother. Bathsheba asked him, "Do you come peacefully?" He answered, "Yes, peacefully."
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• 1 Kings 2:19 NIV

  When Bathsheba went to King Solomon to speak to him for Adonijah, the king stood up to meet her, bowed down to her and sat down on his throne. He had a throne brought for the king's mother, and she sat down at his right hand.
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• 1 Kings 2:20 NIV

  "I have one small request to make of you," she said. "Do not refuse me." The king replied, "Make it, my mother; I will not refuse you."
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• 1 Kings 2:22 NIV

  King Solomon answered his mother, "Why do you request Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? You might as well request the kingdom for him--after all, he is my older brother--yes, for him and for Abiathar the priest and Joab son of Zeruiah!"
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• 1 Kings 3:27 NIV

  Then the king gave his ruling: "Give the living baby to the first woman. Do not kill him; she is his mother."
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• 1 Kings 7:14 NIV

  whose mother was a widow from the tribe of Naphtali and whose father was a man of Tyre and a craftsman in bronze. Huram was highly skilled and experienced in all kinds of bronze work. He came to King Solomon and did all the work assigned to him.
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• 1 Kings 11:26 NIV

  [Jeroboam Rebels Against Solomon] Also, Jeroboam son of Nebat rebelled against the king. He was one of Solomon's officials, an Ephraimite from Zeredah, and his mother was a widow named Zeruah.
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• 1 Kings 14:21 NIV

  [Rehoboam King of Judah] [14:21,25-31pp -- 2Ch 12:9-16] Rehoboam son of Solomon was king in Judah. He was forty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city the LORD had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel in which to put his Name. His mother's name was Naamah; she was an Ammonite.
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• 1 Kings 14:31 NIV

  And Rehoboam rested with his fathers and was buried with them in the City of David. His mother's name was Naamah; she was an Ammonite. And Abijah his son succeeded him as king.
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• 1 Kings 15:2 NIV

  and he reigned in Jerusalem three years. His mother's name was Maacah daughter of Abishalom.
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• 1 Kings 15:13 NIV

  He even deposed his grandmother Maacah from her position as queen mother, because she had made a repulsive Asherah pole. Asa cut the pole down and burned it in the Kidron Valley.
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• 1 Kings 17:23 NIV

  Elijah picked up the child and carried him down from the room into the house. He gave him to his mother and said, "Look, your son is alive!"
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• 1 Kings 19:20 NIV

  Elisha then left his oxen and ran after Elijah. "Let me kiss my father and mother good-by," he said, "and then I will come with you." "Go back," Elijah replied. "What have I done to you?"
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• 1 Kings 22:42 NIV

  Jehoshaphat was thirty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem twenty-five years. His mother's name was Azubah daughter of Shilhi.
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• 1 Kings 22:52 NIV

  He did evil in the eyes of the LORD, because he walked in the ways of his father and mother and in the ways of Jeroboam son of Nebat, who caused Israel to sin.
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• 2 Kings 3:2 NIV

  He did evil in the eyes of the LORD, but not as his father and mother had done. He got rid of the sacred stone of Baal that his father had made.
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• 2 Kings 3:13 NIV

  Elisha said to the king of Israel, "What do we have to do with each other? Go to the prophets of your father and the prophets of your mother." "No," the king of Israel answered, "because it was the LORD who called us three kings together to hand us over to Moab."
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• 2 Kings 4:19 NIV

  "My head! My head!" he said to his father. His father told a servant, "Carry him to his mother."
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• 2 Kings 4:20 NIV

  After the servant had lifted him up and carried him to his mother, the boy sat on her lap until noon, and then he died.
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• 2 Kings 4:30 NIV

  But the child's mother said, "As surely as the LORD lives and as you live, I will not leave you." So he got up and followed her.
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• 2 Kings 8:26 NIV

  Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem one year. His mother's name was Athaliah, a granddaughter of Omri king of Israel.
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• 2 Kings 9:22 NIV

  When Joram saw Jehu he asked, "Have you come in peace, Jehu?" "How can there be peace," Jehu replied, "as long as all the idolatry and witchcraft of your mother Jezebel abound?"
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• 2 Kings 10:13 NIV

  he met some relatives of Ahaziah king of Judah and asked, "Who are you?" They said, "We are relatives of Ahaziah, and we have come down to greet the families of the king and of the queen mother."
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• 2 Kings 11:1 NIV

  [Athaliah and Joash] [11:1-21pp -- 2Ch 22:10+m23:21] When Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she proceeded to destroy the whole royal family.
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• 2 Kings 12:1 NIV

  [Joash Repairs the Temple] [12:1-21pp -- 2Ch 24:1-14; 24:23-27] In the seventh year of Jehu, Joash became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem forty years. His mother's name was Zibiah; she was from Beersheba.
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• 2 Kings 14:2 NIV

  He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem twenty-nine years. His mother's name was Jehoaddin; she was from Jerusalem.
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• 2 Kings 15:2 NIV

  He was sixteen years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem fifty-two years. His mother's name was Jecoliah; she was from Jerusalem.
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• 2 Kings 15:33 NIV

  He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem sixteen years. His mother's name was Jerusha daughter of Zadok.
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• 2 Kings 18:2 NIV

  He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem twenty-nine years. His mother's name was Abijah daughter of Zechariah.
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• 2 Kings 21:1 NIV

  [Manasseh King of Judah] [21:1-10pp -- 2Ch 33:1-10 21:17-18pp -- 2Ch 33:18-20] Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem fifty-five years. His mother's name was Hephzibah.
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• 2 Kings 21:19 NIV

  [Amon King of Judah] [21:19-24pp -- 2Ch 33:21-25] Amon was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem two years. His mother's name was Meshullemeth daughter of Haruz; she was from Jotbah.
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• 2 Kings 22:1 NIV

  [The Book of the Law Found] [22:1-20pp -- 2Ch 34:1-2,8-28] Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem thirty-one years. His mother's name was Jedidah daughter of Adaiah; she was from Bozkath.
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• 2 Kings 23:31 NIV

  [Jehoahaz King of Judah] [23:31-34pp -- 2Ch 36:2-4] Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months. His mother's name was Hamutal daughter of Jeremiah; she was from Libnah.
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• 2 Kings 23:36 NIV

  [Jehoiakim King of Judah] [23:36+m24:6pp -- 2Ch 36:5-8] Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eleven years. His mother's name was Zebidah daughter of Pedaiah; she was from Rumah.
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• 2 Kings 24:8 NIV

  [Jehoiachin King of Judah] [24:8-17pp -- 2Ch 36:9-10] Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months. His mother's name was Nehushta daughter of Elnathan; she was from Jerusalem.
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• 2 Kings 24:12 NIV

  Jehoiachin king of Judah, his mother, his attendants, his nobles and his officials all surrendered to him. In the eighth year of the reign of the king of Babylon, he took Jehoiachin prisoner.
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• 2 Kings 24:15 NIV

  Nebuchadnezzar took Jehoiachin captive to Babylon. He also took from Jerusalem to Babylon the king's mother, his wives, his officials and the leading men of the land.
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• 2 Kings 24:18 NIV

  [Zedekiah King of Judah] [24:18-20pp -- 2Ch 36:11-16; Jer 52:1-3] Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eleven years. His mother's name was Hamutal daughter of Jeremiah; she was from Libnah.
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• 1 Chronicles 2:17 NIV

  Abigail was the mother of Amasa, whose father was Jether the Ishmaelite.
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• 1 Chronicles 2:26 NIV

  Jerahmeel had another wife, whose name was Atarah; she was the mother of Onam.
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• 1 Chronicles 2:46 NIV

  Caleb's concubine Ephah was the mother of Haran, Moza and Gazez. Haran was the father of Gazez.
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• 1 Chronicles 2:48 NIV

  Caleb's concubine Maacah was the mother of Sheber and Tirhanah.
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• 1 Chronicles 4:9 NIV

  Jabez was more honorable than his brothers. His mother had named him Jabez, saying, "I gave birth to him in pain."
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• 2 Chronicles 2:14 NIV

  whose mother was from Dan and whose father was from Tyre. He is trained to work in gold and silver, bronze and iron, stone and wood, and with purple and blue and crimson yarn and fine linen. He is experienced in all kinds of engraving and can execute any design given to him. He will work with your craftsmen and with those of my lord, David your father.
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• 2 Chronicles 12:13 NIV

  King Rehoboam established himself firmly in Jerusalem and continued as king. He was forty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city the LORD had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel in which to put his Name. His mother's name was Naamah; she was an Ammonite.
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• 2 Chronicles 13:2 NIV

  and he reigned in Jerusalem three years. His mother's name was Maacah, a daughter of Uriel of Gibeah. There was war between Abijah and Jeroboam.
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• 2 Chronicles 15:16 NIV

  King Asa also deposed his grandmother Maacah from her position as queen mother, because she had made a repulsive Asherah pole. Asa cut the pole down, broke it up and burned it in the Kidron Valley.
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• 2 Chronicles 20:31 NIV

  [The End of Jehoshaphat's Reign] [20:31+m21:1pp -- 1Ki 22:41-50] So Jehoshaphat reigned over Judah. He was thirty-five years old when he became king of Judah, and he reigned in Jerusalem twenty-five years. His mother's name was Azubah daughter of Shilhi.
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• 2 Chronicles 22:2 NIV

  Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem one year. His mother's name was Athaliah, a granddaughter of Omri.
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• 2 Chronicles 22:3 NIV

  He too walked in the ways of the house of Ahab, for his mother encouraged him in doing wrong.
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• 2 Chronicles 22:10 NIV

  [Athaliah and Joash] [22:10+m23:21pp -- 2Ki 11:1-21] When Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she proceeded to destroy the whole royal family of the house of Judah.
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• 2 Chronicles 24:1 NIV

  [Joash Repairs the Temple] [24:1-14pp -- 2Ki 12:1-16 24:23-27pp -- 2Ki 12:17-21] Joash was seven years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem forty years. His mother's name was Zibiah; she was from Beersheba.
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• 2 Chronicles 25:1 NIV

  [Amaziah King of Judah] [25:1-4pp -- 2Ki 14:1-6 25:11-12pp -- 2Ki 14:7 25:17-28pp -- 2Ki 14:8-20] Amaziah was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem twenty-nine years. His mother's name was Jehoaddin; she was from Jerusalem.
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• 2 Chronicles 26:3 NIV

  Uzziah was sixteen years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem fifty-two years. His mother's name was Jecoliah; she was from Jerusalem.
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• 2 Chronicles 27:1 NIV

  [Jotham King of Judah] [27:1-4,7-9pp -- 2Ki 15:33-38] Jotham was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem sixteen years. His mother's name was Jerusha daughter of Zadok.
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• 2 Chronicles 29:1 NIV

  [Hezekiah Purifies the Temple] [29:1-2pp -- 2Ki 18:2-3] Hezekiah was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem twenty-nine years. His mother's name was Abijah daughter of Zechariah.
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• Esther 1:6 NIV

  The garden had hangings of white and blue linen, fastened with cords of white linen and purple material to silver rings on marble pillars. There were couches of gold and silver on a mosaic pavement of porphyry, marble, mother-of-pearl and other costly stones.
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• Esther 2:7 NIV

  Mordecai had a cousin named Hadassah, whom he had brought up because she had neither father nor mother. This girl, who was also known as Esther, was lovely in form and features, and Mordecai had taken her as his own daughter when her father and mother died.
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• Job 1:21 NIV

  and said: "Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked I will depart. The LORD gave and the LORD has taken away; may the name of the LORD be praised."
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• Job 17:14 NIV

  if I say to corruption, 'You are my father,' and to the worm, 'My mother' or 'My sister,'
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• Psalm 22:9 NIV

  Yet you brought me out of the womb; you made me trust in you even at my mother's breast.
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• Psalm 22:10 NIV

  From birth I was cast upon you; from my mother's womb you have been my God.
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• Psalm 27:10 NIV

  Though my father and mother forsake me, the LORD will receive me.
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• Psalm 35:14 NIV

  I went about mourning as though for my friend or brother. I bowed my head in grief as though weeping for my mother.
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• Psalm 50:20 NIV

  You speak continually against your brother and slander your own mother's son.
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• Psalm 51:5 NIV

  Surely I was sinful at birth, sinful from the time my mother conceived me.
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• Psalm 69:8 NIV

  I am a stranger to my brothers, an alien to my own mother's sons;
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• Psalm 71:6 NIV

  From birth I have relied on you; you brought me forth from my mother's womb. I will ever praise you.
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• Psalm 109:14 NIV

  May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the LORD; may the sin of his mother never be blotted out.
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• Psalm 113:9 NIV

  He settles the barren woman in her home as a happy mother of children. Praise the LORD.
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• Psalm 131:2 NIV

  But I have stilled and quieted my soul; like a weaned child with its mother, like a weaned child is my soul within me.
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• Psalm 139:13 NIV

  For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb.
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• Proverbs 1:8 NIV

  [Exhortations to Embrace Wisdom] [Warning Against Enticement] Listen, my son, to your father's instruction and do not forsake your mother's teaching.
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• Proverbs 4:3 NIV

  When I was a boy in my father's house, still tender, and an only child of my mother,
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• Proverbs 6:20 NIV

  [Warning Against Adultery] My son, keep your father's commands and do not forsake your mother's teaching.
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• Proverbs 10:1 NIV

  [Proverbs of Solomon] The proverbs of Solomon: A wise son brings joy to his father, but a foolish son grief to his mother.
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• Proverbs 15:20 NIV

  A wise son brings joy to his father, but a foolish man despises his mother.
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• Proverbs 19:26 NIV

  He who robs his father and drives out his mother is a son who brings shame and disgrace.
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• Proverbs 20:20 NIV

  If a man curses his father or mother, his lamp will be snuffed out in pitch darkness.
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• Proverbs 23:22 NIV

  Listen to your father, who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.
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