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Mother's Day at Chapman Grove

Mother's Day 2016 was a joyous occasion at Chapman Grove!  Many of our mothers were accompanied to the Sunday service by their children.  As all mothers know, their children may be eight or eighty, but age is not a factor.  In a mother's eyes, they are still will always be her babies!

 

Chris and Carrie Smith handed out beautiful roses to all the mothers in attendance.  Many thanks to them for honoring our mothers!

 

Here are some of our Chapman Grove mothers and their "babies" plus some inspirational thoughts about mothers.

Motherhood is the one thing in all the world which most truly exemplifies the God-given virtues of creating and sacrificing. Though it carries the woman close to the brink of death, motherhood also leads her into the very realm of the fountains of life and makes her

co-partner with the Creator in bestowing upon

eternal spirits mortal life.

- David O. McKay

 

Margaret Bailey (right) and daughter Cindy Billings

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One is roots; the other, wings.

- Hodding Carter, Jr

 

Annette Barnett  

with son, Jonathan  

Blessed are the mothers of the earth. They combine the practical and the spiritual into the workable ways of human life.

- William L. Stinger

 

Wanda Branson and son,

Jim Branson

A mother's love is like a circle. It has no beginning and no ending. It keeps going around and around ever expanding, touching everyone who comes in contact with it. Engulfing them like the morning's mist, warming them like the noontime sun and covering them like a blanket of evening stars. A mother's love is like a circle. It has no beginning and no ending.

 

Leona Long (middle back) with the Four J's:   Jensen, Journey, Javalyn, and Justus

A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.

- Washington Irving

Ina Lou Mack with Annette Barnett, Martha Burnam, and Janice Smith

A mother is the one through whom God whispers love to His little children.

Bettye Parrott with son, Jonathan

A mother's love is patient and forgiving when all others are forsaking, it never fails or falters, even though the heart is breaking.

-Helen Rice

Janice Smith

with  Chris and Carrie

A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.

-Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Helen Walker

with son, Steven D. Walker

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