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[Terrance Sadler]

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From: "Terrance Sadler" <blatantlydefiant at pmpmail.com>
To: paternof at jgb.org
Subject: FW: FW: FW: DAILY DEVOTION FOR FRIDAY NOVEMBER 20
Date: 
11/20/2009 4:27:27 AM


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From: "Terrance Sadler" <blatantlydefiant at pmpmail.com>
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Subject: FW: FW: DAILY DEVOTION FOR FRIDAY NOVEMBER 20
Date: 
Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:49:17 -0500

I received this from a friend and thought it would make a very good Daily
Devotion.

MEAN MOMS


Someday when my children are old enough to understand the logic that
motivates a parent, I will tell
them, as my Mean Mom told me: I loved you enough .
. . to ask where you were going, with whom, and what time you would be
home.

I loved you enough to be silent and let you discover that your new best
friend was a creep.

I loved you enough to stand over you for two hours while you cleaned your
room, a job that should
have taken 15 minutes.

I loved you enough to let you see anger, disappointment, and tears in my
eyes. Children must learn
that their parents aren't perfect.

I loved you enough to let you assume the responsibility for your actions
even when the
penalties were so harsh they almost broke my heart.

But most of all, I loved you enough . . . to say NO when I knew you would
hate me for it.

Those were the most difficult battles of all.  I'm glad I won them,
because in the end you won, too.
And someday when your children are old enough to understand
the logic that motivates parents, you will tell them.

Was your Mom mean?  I know mine was.  We had the meanest mother in the
whole world!  While other
kids ate candy for breakfast, we had to have cereal, eggs,
and toast.
When others had a Pepsi and a Twinkie for lunch, we had to eat
sandwiches.

       And you can guess our mother fixed us a dinner that was different
from what other kids
had, too.  Mother insisted on knowing where we were at all
times.  You'd think we were convicts in a prison.  She had to know who
our friends were, and what we
were doing with them.  She insisted that if we said
we would be gone for an hour, we would be gone for an hour or less.

We were ashamed to admit it, but she had the nerve to break the Child
Labor Laws by making us work.
We had to wash the dishes, make the beds, learn to
cook, vacuum the floor, do laundry, empty the trash and all sorts of
cruel jobs.  I think she would
lie awake at night thinking of more things for us to
do.

She always insisted on us telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing
but the truth.  By the
time we were teenagers, she could read our minds and had
eyes in the back of her head.  Then, life was really tough!

Mother wouldn't let our friends just honk the horn when they drove up. 
They had to come up to the
door so she could meet them.  While everyone else could
date when they were 12 or 13, we had to wait until we were 16.

Because of our mother, we missed out on lots of things other kids
experienced.  None of us have ever
been caught shoplifting, vandalizing other's property
or ever arrested for any crime.  It was all her fault. Now that we have
left home, we are all
educated, honest adults. We are doing our best to be mean
parents just like Mom was.
I think that is what's wrong with the world today. It just doesn't have
enough mean moms!

PASS THIS ON TO ALL THE MEAN MOTHERS YOU KNOW.
(And Their Kids!!!)




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