{"id":35882,"date":"2025-05-08T17:45:51","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T00:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?post_type=portfolio&#038;p=35882"},"modified":"2025-05-08T18:09:43","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T01:09:43","slug":"2025-praying","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/gospel-express\/2025-praying\/","title":{"rendered":"A praying mother"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"flex_column av_one_full  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding first  avia-builder-el-0  avia-builder-el-no-sibling  \" style='border-radius:0px; '><section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: right;\">by Max Lucado<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cMary quietly treasured these things in her heart.\u201d Lk 2:19 TLB<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-35883 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/praying-1-259x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"259\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/praying-1-259x300.jpg 259w, https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/praying-1-609x705.jpg 609w, https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/praying-1.jpg 719w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 259px) 100vw, 259px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cSome things only a mom can do\u2026like powdering a baby\u2019s bottom with one hand while holding the phone with the other\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Spending the day wiping noses, laundering socks, balancing a check book, and still mean it when she thanks God for her kids.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Some things only a mom can fix\u2026like the cabinet doors her husband couldn\u2019t, and his bruised ego when he found out she could!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Broken shoelaces\u2026broken hearts\u2026breaking up with your sweetheart. Some things only a mom can know\u2026like how long it takes to drive from piano lessons to ball practice\u2026how many pizzas you need for a sleepover\u2026the number of days left in a semester.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-35884 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/praying-2-300x205.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"205\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/praying-2-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/praying-2-705x482.jpg 705w, https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/praying-2.jpg 736w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The rest of us can only wonder\u2026 \u2018Mom, what was it like when that infant\u2019s cry first filled the room? Or the day the school bus pulled to a stop, you placed a kiss on a five-year-old\u2019s cheek, waved goodbye and then saw the tricycle\u2014silent and still? How did you feel? Did you cry? Did you smile?\u2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Were you like Mary who \u2018quietly treasured all these things in her heart?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">A mother who loves and prays for her children is a force to be reckoned with.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-35885 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/praying-3-248x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"248\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/praying-3-248x300.jpg 248w, https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/praying-3.jpg 414w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 248px) 100vw, 248px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">When a preacher stopped by a house in England and asked to speak to the mother, her little boy said, \u201cYou can\u2019t see her right now, she\u2019s praying.\u201d That\u2019s because Susanna Wesley spent one hour every day praying for each of her seventeen children. Eventually two of them, John and Charles, were used by God to bring a spiritual awakening to Britain and America and establish the Methodist Church. Such is the influence of a praying mother.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-35886 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/praying-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"447\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/praying-4.jpg 447w, https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/praying-4-262x300.jpg 262w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 447px) 100vw, 447px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"featured_media":35884,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"portfolio_entries":[29],"class_list":["post-35882","portfolio","type-portfolio","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","portfolio_entries-29"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/35882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/portfolio"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35882"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/35882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35887,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/35882\/revisions\/35887"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35882"},{"taxonomy":"portfolio_entries","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_entries?post=35882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}