Like Mother like Daughter

I was the guest speaker for a Ladies Tea at Stephen’s Chapel Church in Smithfield, NC yesterday afternoon. It was a delightful event with 7 different tables decorated by 7 different ladies according to 7 different Bible verses. These ladies went all out! They had the fine china, crystal, sterling silver, cloth napkins and all the finery you can imagine. Each table hostess read her Bible verse and described her table and introduced the ladies at her table. The guest included Mothers, daughters, granddaughters, Aunts, sisters, cousins and friends.

After the introductions, I shared my testimony and then enjoyed a time of fellowship with these gracious women over tea and delectable treats of all sorts!

My time spent with the Ladies of Stephens Chapel brought to mind some WONDERful moments I have recently spend with my girls, Mom, and sister’s.

I’ll share a few of those wonder-filled moments with you! Amanda and I were driving home from a long day of shopping when she asked if I had gone to the meeting at our church about the “gays in our community”. Yes, you read that right. I said, what are you talking about? She said, “Mom, you know, last Sunday the Pastor said he wanted everyone to be there that Wednesday night for a special meeting about the problem with “gays” in our community”. She continued by saying that the Pastor said it was a serious problem that was even filtering down to our elementary schools. Amanda said she had really wanted to come but she had a lab that night. She also told me she had told her roommates about it and they couldn’t believe that our church was going to talk about “Gay people”. They wanted to know if we were going to try and oust them from our church and community! By the time Amanda finishes telling me all of this, I am laughing hysterically, tears are streaming down my face and I can hardly catch my breath. Amanda isn’t finding this very funny…until I tell her that the meeting was on “GANGS”, NOT gays! She begins to laugh as well and decides she needs to call her roommates and set the record straight!

After that, we began reminiscing about other faux pas we had committed. One of my most famous is when I mistakeningly wrote that our churches marriage retreat ants would be visiting the “Carolina Orgy” instead of the “Carolina Opry”. An honest mistake but one I haven’t lived down to this day!

Over Easter I heard Amanda telling my Sister as she was extolling the virtues of her new trash compactor, “They have outlawed those in Raleigh.” Allison, Amanda’s older sis, and I immediately said in unison, that’s garbage disposals! It was too funny.
Amanda has also informed me that Grandma’s preacher was getting a divorce and said Grandma told her so. So I pass the info along to other family members to later find out we are wrong and Grandma doesn’t know what Amanda was talking about!

Amanda says she inherited this “blonde gene” from me…reminding me of the time I am telling my best friend that we need to pray for this family. I tell her all about the mother who shot and killed her little boy during the night because she thought he was a burglar when in reality he was just sneaking in the living room to play with the ornaments on the Christmas tree. My friend is getting into the story with me and we are going to pray for this family when Amanda says…”Mom, that isn’t real…we saw that on E.R. last night.” We all get a good chuckle out of that as I turn beat red.

I guess it is in the genes!
Like Mother, like Daughter isn’t it wonderful!