As I mentioned before, we have, we have several mothers that we're going to look in detail about their lives. Isaiah 49 says this, this was pretty interesting. It says, Can a mother forget her suckling child? That she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yea, they may forget yet I will not forget thee. Very unique thing that mothers have. Mothers love their sons and their daughters in most cases. And the sons and daughters sometimes can do some very terrible things, but the love of the mother is always there. Always there. I have the unique situation. I actually had three mothers. I mean, I'm unusual of that. My first mother is the mother that gave me birth. Okay, and I had four other brothers. We all were in Alaska. And we were pretty close together. We had Jimmy, who was the oldest one. He was about six years old, something like that, around there. The two twins, Ron and Don, they were a year younger than he was. And then the stinker of the family, me, I was born after that. I was about three. And then I had a younger brother, George, and he was a year younger than I was. So there were five of us. Now, my mother left us. So that was my first mother. She left us. I won't go into the details at this time. I have another sermon about my life that we'll do at another time. But then I got a second mother. Now, my second mother was not a Christian, but my second mother... How many of you have ever been adopted? Okay, some of you, okay. You know, as an adopted child, we're different. Now, moms, you don't have any say with children that God gives you. You don't have any say in them. But you know, a mother that adopts a child is able to make a choice. I was chosen to be their son. That was awesome. They didn't have to. They could have gone on the rest of their life without having a child. Or maybe God would have given them one somewhere down the line. They didn't, but they didn't have to. But they chose, they chose me. And because of that, she had a special love for me. Now, she wasn't a Christian. We did not go to church. There are only about three times my entire youth of growing up do I recall being in church. We didn't sing praises. We didn't pray over our meals. She never prayed for me, you know, at nighttime. But she loved me. When I was sick, she comforted me. When I would fall down and skin my knee, she would help bear up. But my mother loved me, and she would come and make it all right. My mother saw my knees, and so sometimes she'd always clean. But then I had plenty of food to eat. She made me eat some things that I didn't like. And to this day, I still hate broccoli. My wife is working on that. She says I don't have to eat it anymore when I turn 80. Only a few years to go. But my mother would see to it that I was well fed. Sometimes I even got some stuff I really liked, like ice cream. And she'd see to it that I'd get some ice cream. When I would tell her what I wanted to do in life, she would always be behind me. Because she loved me. Because that's what a mother does. A mother cares for her child. When I became a teenager, she still loved me. Even though teenagers can be very stressful, on a mother, but she still loved me. She still helped me. She still took care of me. I trusted Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. I won't go into my testimony on that, but I went home and I tried to talk to my mother about becoming a Christian, and she wasn't interested. But she never stopped me from going to church. Never stopped me from going to church. My mother passed away Memorial Day in 1970. I had gone home to visit her, because when I had gone to my mother, at one time I told her I wanted to be a heart surgeon, and she was all behind me. She said, if that's what your heart's goal is, I'm behind you, son. And then I told her, no, God's telling me that I should be a preacher. And you know something? My mother said, well, if that's what you think that you need to do, I'm behind you 100%. And so I went off to Bible college, but I made sure that once a month I would drive home and I would spend some time with my mother. And she would still take care of me. One time she came and she said, son, you're getting too thin. You need to eat some more. And so she sent me a box about this big and about that thick and about like that. And it had cookies, and cakes, and candy bars, and potato chips, and a whole bunch of other things for me to have as snacks, so that I would kind of beef up a little bit. Because she loved me. No matter what I was going to do in life, she loved me. And I tried to talk to her about the Lord, and she just wasn't interested. She passed away, I had to perform the, I had to go and I had to take care of the funeral and all. And I was going through her stuff and I ran across a letter. And it was a letter from the First Baptist Church in Ventura congratulating my mother on her decision to trust Jesus Christ as her savior and follow him in baptism. I'm going to get to see my mother again. She's mom. She didn't bring me into this world, but she brought me up in this world. She's mom and she loved me and I prayed for her and prayed for her and prayed for her. And I'm going to see her again someday. I had a third mother. My third mother was Cheryl's mother. And I remember when I, my mother taught me some things. My mother always taught me to be courteous to people, to say please and thank you, may I, to show respect to elders. This was from a mother that was not saved, but yet she taught me those things. She taught me how to apply for a job, how to go to an interview. She taught me how to be on time. She taught me how to work like I should work and be faithful to my employer. She taught me all those things and I missed her. When it came to our time for marriage. Matter of fact, even before that time, I would go periodically to Cheryl's house to spend Sunday afternoon there. And since my mother had taught me to be courteous, I would always ask for things. I would say, you know, may I have a glass of milk? May I have a glass of water? May I have, you know? And one time, her mother said to me, no. And it kind of startled me because she was a Christian. And she went to church. And she said, no, I couldn't have a glass of milk. But she says, no, you're almost family. Get it yourself. And then at our wedding, she came up and put her arm around me. And she said, I always wanted a son. You're the son. I didn't have. And she was so thankful that I was her son. So I had three mothers. Three mothers. I was blessed, and I'm still blessed. I know two of them trusted Jesus Christ as Savior, and I'll get to see both of them. I remember mom. We took mom in. She was getting to where she, mentally, she had dementia. She could tell us stories that when she was six years old, but she couldn't tell what happened 15 minutes ago. But I remember taking her in, and we were down in Vallejo, his associate pastor down there, and we needed to do something with mom. And her other daughter wanted to put her in a home. And I said, no, we can't do that. The Bible says we're to honor our fathers and our mothers. And I says, we have an obligation to take care of mom to the best of our ability. So that's when we moved up here. And we had her live with us for about two years. What about two years, two and a half years? And she came here to church with us, too. And I remember many a nighttime, her memory was gone as far as short-term memory and even some of the long-term memory. But I remember at nighttime, I could hear her in her bedroom. She'd be singing praises to the Lord. She'd be singing the old hymns. She could remember those old hymns. And I could hear her sometimes pray, and she says, Lord, I'm ready to come home. But if I can still be a blessing, let me be a blessing. And she was. Mom. Well, that's my mothers, three of them. But in the Bible, in the Bible, there were three mothers that I was going to preach on this morning. And I'm not going to preach on three of them. I'm only going to pick one of them. I was going to pick Jacobad, the mother that loved children. Her name was Jehovah is Glorious. That's what she has. She had two sons and a daughter. She, and she taught those sons, one of them became a priest, the daughter became a prophetess, and her son became Pharaoh of Egypt, or almost Pharaoh of Egypt, and wound up being a deliverer of the children of Israel because of her faith, great faith. Jacob was not a great woman, but she also was an example of a godly mother. Mothers are so important in a home. Moms, do you realize the ministry that you have in a home? It's so important. It's so important. Those children, that God has given you charge over. You are the ones that mold them. Now, dads are important too. Dads should be setting an example. But moms are the ones that give them the compassion, the love. Moms are the ones that guide them. And through the scripture, we see a lot of moms that have guided their children to serve the Lord. And the one that I want to look at this morning, now all this has been free. Okay, this was all introduction, we're going to get into the sermon now. Because you know, I don't want to I don't want to sit around here and wait for that food to show up. So I've got to be preaching to you. We're going to look we're going to look at one of them in particular. And this is this one is Hannah. Turn if you would please to first Samuel chapter number one. And we're going to look at we're going to look at this woman. Says now there was a certain man verse number one. There was a certain man Retham Zophim of Mount Ephraim and his name was Elkanah. Elkanah the son of Jeraham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuf, and Ephrathite. And he had two wives. The name of one was Hannah, and the name of the other was Peninnah. And Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children. Now, this period of time, he had two wives. They had more than one wife. God never condoned having more than one wife, but it was allowed. It brought about, many times, it brought about strife in the home, trouble in the home. I was told, now I don't know if it's true, I have to ask Linda if this is true, but I was told that the symbol in Chinese is two women under one roof, and it means trouble. I don't know if that's true or not, but I was told that. So there was some contention there. One of them had children, and one of them did not. And the one that had children caused problems, okay? and was an adversary. It says, And this man went up into the city to worship and sacrifice unto the Lord of hosts in Shiloh. And the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, the priest of the Lord, were there. And when the time was that Elkanah offered, he gave to Peninnah, his wife, and to all her sons and daughters, portions. But unto Hannah he gave a worthy portion, for he loved Hannah, but the Lord had shut up Hannah's womb. And her adversary, the other wife, also provoked her to soar, for to make her fret, because the Lord had shut up her womb. And as he did so year by year, when she went up to the house of the Lord, so she provoked her, therefore she wept and did not eat. Then said Elkanah her husband to her, Hannah, why weepest thou? And why eatest thou not? And why is thy heart grieved? Am not I better to thee than ten sons? So Hannah rose up after they had eaten in Shiloh, and after they had drunk, Eli the priest sat upon a seat by a post of the temple of the Lord, and she was in bitterness of soul, and prayed unto the Lord and wept sore. And she vowed a vow and said, O Lord of hosts, if thou will indeed look on the affliction of mine handmaid, of thine handmaid, and remember me, and not forget thine handmaid, but will give unto thine handmaid a manchild, then I will give him unto the Lord all the days of his life, and there shall no razor come upon his head. And it came to pass, as as she continued praying before the Lord, that Eli marked her mouth. Now Hannah spake in her heart, only her lips moved, but her voice was not heard. Therefore Eli thought she had been drunken. And Eli said unto her, How long wilt thou be drunken? Put away thy wine from thee. And Hannah answered and said, No, my lord, I am a woman of sorrow spirit. I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but have poured out my soul before the Lord. And count not thine handmaid for a daughter of Belial. For out of the abundance of my complaint and grief have I spoken hitherto.' Then Eli answered and said, Go in peace, and the God of Israel grant thee thy petition that thou hast asked of him. And she said, Let thine handmaid find grace in thy sight. So the woman went her way and did eat, and her countenance was no more sad." That's kind of the background. Her name meant favor of Jehovah, but she was a woman of sorrow because she desired to have a child and God did not allow her to have a child. Not only did she have this desire to have a child, but the other woman in the house, the other wife had children and she mocked Hannah for not having children. Back then, a wife was expected to have children, and if she did not have children, the culture of that day, she was looked upon not favorably because she didn't have any children. And so she's having to deal with this every year, they go up and they have a sacrifice. She's given a good sacrifice to give, but she's got this bitterness in her heart because she's saying, I want a child. So she finally, she finally makes a vow to God. And she says, I'm going to make a vow to God, I promise God, if you will give me a child, a man child, that I will dedicate him to the Lord. And we find that that's exactly what happened. We find that after they had gone after this instance, they went home, God opened up her womb, she had a child, and she named that child Samuel. Now that's an interesting name, Samuel. It means heard by God. or the name of God. Mostly it's heard by God. God heard her prayer. God heard her prayer. Gave her a son. Gave her a son. When we go on down further in the verse, or further in this chapter, She was given the son. And in verse number 22, it says, But Hannah went not up, for she said unto her husband, I will not go up until the child be weaned, and then I will bring him, that he may appear before the Lord, and there abide forever. Now Cana, her husband, said unto her, Do what seemeth good thee, tarry until thou have weaned him, only the Lord establish his word. So the woman abode and gave her son suck until she had weaned him. And when she had weaned him, she took him up with her with three bullocks and one ephod of flour and a bottle of wine and brought him into the house of the Lord in Shiloh. And the child was young. And they slew the bullock and brought the child to Eli. And she said, Oh my Lord, As thy soul liveth, my Lord, I am the woman that stood by thee here, praying unto the Lord. For this child I prayed, and the Lord hath given me my petition, which I asked of him. Therefore also I have lent him to the Lord. As long as he liveth, he shall be lent to the Lord. And he worshipped the Lord there." And so she recognized that God had answered her prayers and gave her a son. And when the child was finally weaned, she brought him to Eli the priest to give him to the Lord. Now, usually it would take two to three years to wean a child. And so we're looking at a child that may be three years, maybe four years old. And she brings him to Eli. And from that time on, he serves the Lord. And he becomes He becomes a great prophet of God. Now, the children of Israel had turned from serving the Lord. They were now living in a state of wickedness. Even the priests were. The sons of Eli, it was said that they were very, very wicked. They stole meat out of the offerings. They had prostitutes in the temple. They were very, very wicked, wicked priests. Israel had gone, started worshiping all sorts of different gods. And they had turned their back on God. And God is going to prepare someone that can bring them back. And this little boy is going to be the one that's going to bring them back. And so when you read the rest of the chapter, the first part of Samuel, and you read what takes place, Samuel becomes a priest, he becomes a prophet, he becomes the leader of Israel, and he turns their faithlessness back to faith. Think about this for a moment. Here was a woman that prayed a prayer to God, And God would give her a son and she was willing to sacrifice that son to the Lord's work. And because she was willing to sacrifice that son for the Lord's work, God brought a revival to a nation through that son. Mothers, you never know what God is going to do with the children that you raise. You never know. Some of them may wind up being very, very special. Now they're special anyway, but they may be very special in the eyes of the Lord. You never know. There's some things that, Sam, about Hannah. She trained her son to serve God. Some things that happened here. First of all, we see in verses 10 through 11 that Hannah provides an example of fervent prayer. A fervent prayer. A mother needs to be praying for her children. Okay. Now I told you I had three mothers. I never, up until I was an adult, I had never had a grandmother. Now, I had the grandmother, but I never met the grandmother. The father and mother of my adopted family, they had passed away, so I didn't have them. And of course, I didn't have connection with my birth parents, and so I didn't have connection with those grandmothers. And so it wasn't until I was in my mid-20s that I was even able to make contact. The way that came about, kind of unusual, I got a letter from Salvation Army, and they had a service. I don't know if they still have it, but they had a service that they would find families. And if you were missing a member of your family, you could apply to them, and they would do a search, and they would try to find them for you. And so I got a letter from them, and they said, so-and-so James Knapp is trying to find you. Now, I had other ideas of who that was, because we were dealing with somebody else that had that last name. And it just didn't dawn on me who it was until I really read the letter real close. And it was James Knapp of Fairbanks, Alaska. And all of a sudden, a light bulb went on. Bing! I knew my father was in Alaska. My birth father was in Alaska. Now, my first thought was, he's trying to get in touch with me? After 25 years, he's trying to get in touch with me? He probably thinks I'm wealthy and he's going to put the, you know, the touch on me. And boy, does he have a surprise. I'm just a poor preacher. And I really wasn't interested because I was told when I was growing up that my parents didn't want us, that they just put us out for like puppies and anybody that would come along and take them could have them. So I wasn't interested in my family. My wife was interested. She was the one that was always wondering, oh, what about your mom? And she actually, I was going to throw the letter away and forget about it. I'm not interested. But she insisted that I should try to at least get in touch with him and find out what it was all about. So I called the number that they gave me, and I talked to his second wife. I didn't tell her who I was. But I said, I need to I need to talk with James. And she says, Well, he is on. He's, he's up on the Alaskan pipeline. And you can't talk to him now. And I says, Well, I really need to get in touch with him. And she says, Well, who are you? And I said, Well, I'd rather not tell you. And she says, Well, I'm not going to tell you how to get in touch with him until you tell me who you are. And I says, I am Roger, his son. Oh, we have been trying to find you for years. He wants to make contact with you. And eventually, we made arrangements to go. And we were going to meet in Klamath Falls, Oregon, where I was born. And I borrowed a camper from a friend of mine. And we loaded the kids up. All three of our children, loaded them up in the camper, and we drove up to Klamath Falls, Oregon to meet my father. And we had arranged to meet at the post office, because I'm still, I don't know if I want to get involved in this or not. I've heard about these stories of these things, and this may be a bad thing. So I arranged to meet them at the post office. And so I parked a couple of blocks away, and I was walking to the post office. And I passed this blue van, and two guys got out of the blue van and go, oh, no, I'm going to get mugged. I'm in another town, and they're going to mug me before I even meet my family. Lord, help! And as I finally got to the post office, they called out my name, and it was my father and my uncle. And my uncle recognized me. He'd never seen me, but he recognized me. He says, that's a nap. He walks like a nap. That's your son. And I got to meet my father and found out that my father had trusted Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. One of the most blessed time of my life was the first Sunday that we were there. We were able to get up early morning and go to a little Baptist church about two blocks away. We just walked over there, walked in, we shook pastor's hand, and my father said, this is my son. What a time. But what really was blessed, I got to meet my grandmothers, both of them. And one of my grandmothers on the Knapside, my grandmother had been a Sunday school teacher for years and years and years. And she taught little boys in Sunday school. And one of her prayers, she had been praying for years, years, years. God, one of my grandsons, call them into the ministry. Use them for you. And I was the answer to her prayer. She had prayed for 20 some odd years for at least one of her grandsons to be in the ministry. See that's what a mother does. They pray and they pray Hannah. prayed, and she kept on praying, and she prayed in bitterness of heart and soul, and she prayed until she got an answer from God. Moms, that's what you need to do. You need to pray for your children, and keep praying for your children, and keep praying for your children, and keep praying for your children and your grandchildren, because that's what moms should do. I get, excuse me, I get, when I think of that, She was an example of fervent prayer. She was also an example of obedience to the Lord. When the time finally came and the child was weaned, we see in verse number 28, it says that she gave them back to the Lord. How hard that must have been to take that sweet child and give him to the Lord, to be trained to be for the Lord. But moms who love their children, who pray and pray and pray are also obedient when it comes time to let that child do what God wants them to do. She was obedient to the Lord. She was an example of worship. Turn to the second chapter. prays to the Lord and kind of puts it into the form of a song. And it says, and Hannah prayed and said, my heart rejoices in the Lord. My horn is exalted in the Lord. My mouth is enlarged over mine enemies, because I rejoice in thy salvation. The first thing that we see with Hannah as she prays this prayer, or begins to sing this song, as she sees the sovereignty of God, God's in control. And that's what mothers, mothers, listen, you need to understand that God is in control. He is in control. Boy, I tell you, sometimes we think, you know, we're out of control, this world is out of control, but God's not. He's always in control. He's still on the throne. And He can take a wayward child and change that heart when a mom is faithful in praying for that child. It may take some time. It may take some years. But God is still in control. God is still in control. So she recognizes that. She recognizes that God is holy. God is holy. Verse number two says, There is none holy as the Lord, for there is none besides thee, neither is there any rock like our God. Oh, listen to me this morning. There's nothing like God. He is our rock. The rock in there, that's the foundational stone. And when we build our lives on that foundational stone, we have strength in the Lord. And a mom that builds her children on the word of God and on the things of God and are strong in the word of God, there's some strength there. We have forgotten that in this world. We try to do everything ourselves. We think that we're really something, and we're not. We are nothing, and God is everything. God is everything. And so Hannah saw that. She says, he's our rock. And verse number three, I like this one too. It says, talk normally, let not arrogancy come out of your mouth. For the Lord is the God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed. God knows everything. God knows your heart. You understand that? God knows you. God knows you better than you know you. Huh? He knows your heart. And he knows everything about us. Now, moms know a lot too. I know my kids always thought that their mother had eyes in the back of her head. They seem to always know what was going on. Moms are wonderful, but they don't know everything. But God does. God knows. God knows what's in your heart right now. God knows what's in your mind right now. And he knows what our desires are. And so God is all knowledge. When we go down to verse number four, it says this, the bows of the mighty men are broken. They that stumble are gird with strength. They that were full have hired out themselves for bread. And they that were hungry ceased, so that the barren hath born seven, and she that hath many children is waxed feeble. The Lord killeth and maketh alive. He bringeth down to the grave and bringeth up. The Lord maketh poor and maketh rich. He bringeth low and lifteth up. He raised up the poor out of the dust and lift up the beggar from the dunghill to set them among princes and to make them inherit the throne of glory to the pillars of the earth are the Lord's and he has set the world upon them. Okay, what she's talking about is the power of God. God knows all and he's all powerful. God can take every situation, every situation that we can get into. God can be glorified if we turn it over to him. Because he knows about it. And he has the power to change it. And he has the power to take us through it. There's nothing that we can't, there's nothing that we can go through that God can't take us through. Amen. I like the passage of scripture in Psalm 23 that says, Yea, through the valley of the shadow of death, thou art with me, thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me. No matter what we go through, whatever this nation goes through, if we know the Lord, if we trusted him as Lord and Savior, and we're putting our trust in him on a day to day basis, he has the power and the knowledge and the holiness to control the situation. And so mothers, train up your children in the way they should go. Put in them a fear of the Lord. Put into their hearts a desire to serve the Lord. Pray for them and keep on praying for them and keep on praying for them. Because God can change the situations. And sometimes God puts the situations in place to get our attention. And then finally, She recognizes that God is the God of judgment. Verses number nine and 10, she said this, he will keep the feet of his saints. Oh, stop right there. If you've trusted Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, you've admitted that you're a sinner in the eyes of God who's holy, And you've put your trust in the death, the burial, and the resurrection of Jesus Christ. You are a saint. Okay? Church is not what delegates who a saint is. God's the one that does it. And he says that if you know his son, you are a saint. Notice what he says here. The feet of the saints are kept by him. The wicked shall be silent in darkness, for by strength shall no man prevail. Those that think they're so hot, they think they're so strong and so powerful, they're nothing in the eyes of God. He can take them out just like that. Okay? He takes people down, he lifts people up. Oh, listen, you've never trusted Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. One day you're going to have to stand before this judge. Okay. You're going to have to stand before this judge and give an account of your life. And you're going to say, well, I was pretty good person. I didn't cheat on my taxes. I didn't kick the dog. You know, I didn't think bad about my neighbor. I didn't do that. And I did. And I did. And I did. And it's gonna absolutely be nothing. Absolutely nothing. Unless you know Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. He says that, you know, there's strength. No man can prevail. The adversaries of the Lord shall be broken to pieces. Out of heaven shall the thunder upon them. The Lord shall judge the ends of the earth and he shall give strength unto his kings and exalt the horn of his anointed. So judgment. Hannah recognized all of those things. And because she recognized those things and was an example of fervent prayer and an example of obedience to the Lord, was an example of worshiping God and recognizing the sovereignty, the holiness, the knowledge, the power, the judgment of God Almighty. God blessed her. What a mother. When you read more about this, we find that she was devoted to her family. She even took care, even though she took little Samuel and said, you're going to go and you're going to be a priest for God. Every year she would go and give him a new coat. Every year she would make coats for him and take him up there and take care of him. She was a mother to be Well, she was an example of a good mother. Okay. Women like Hannah shine for God. Mothers who are caring and loving and godly and are praying for their children. Okay, they're an example. They're an example of what God can do. And by the way, God did bless Hannah. Read in the rest of the chapter, in the latter part of the chapter, in chapter number 2 and 21, she was given three sons and two daughters. So because she was willing to sacrifice and give that back to God and to keep that promise, God blessed her with more sons and daughters. And Samuel became the man of God, a man of prayer, He was distinctive among his people. Did he get there by himself? No, he got there because he had a godly mother. Had a godly mother. With the last thoughts, finally. By the way, preachers like the word finally. We, in our adult Bible class, were learning in Philippians. Paul even did that. He said, finally, brethren, and then a whole nother chapter came. He said, finally. He liked ending. If we were to read in Proverbs 31, and we won't read that, but you can turn with me there. That's the last chapter of the book of Proverbs. I'll get there eventually. Starting in verse number 10, it says, who can find a virtuous woman for her price is far above rubies? And then there's a list of things about her. Okay? Her price is far above rubies. Her husband trusts her. She is filled with strength and honor. She has wisdom. She has a tongue that's a law of kindness. Her children call her blessed. And her husband also says his blessing and praises her. And it says a favor is deceitful. Beauty is vain, but a woman that feareth the Lord shall be praised. And I would put a little admentum that I'm not adding to the Word of God, but the thought is a mother who fears the Lord shall be praised. If you're here this morning, and you're a mother, you fall into that category. And you can still be fearful of the Lord. You can still be honorable. You can still pray. You can still guide. Say, well, my kids are all grown. You still pray for them. Our children will always be our children, no matter how old they get. Amen? They're still our children. And a mother, a godly mother, will be praised if she's a godly mother. Because if she's a godly mother, she'll pray for her children. She'll instruct her children. She'll weep with them. She'll rejoice with them. She'll do whatever she can to see that they're successful in life. That's what a godly mother does. How do you become a godly mother? by trusting Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, by trusting Him on a day-to-day basis, by putting your life into His hands. That's how you become a godly mother. My last thought, and we'll pray with this. Every one of you either has a mother or had a mother. you need to respect your mother. If you have a mother you need to pray for, you need to thank God for, you need to honor her and praise her for her sacrifice and her love for you. Every one of us need to do that. Let's bow in prayer.