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10th March 2024
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'TABLE TALK - "WHEN GOD CREATED MOTHERS"
BY ERMA BOMBECK'
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'So grateful for Erma Bombeck's gifts that she so richly shared and for you as we walk the road together.'
When the Good Lord was creating mothers, He was into His sixth day of "overtime" when the angel appeared and said. "You're doing a lot of fiddling around on this one."
And God said, "Have you read the specs on this order?"
She has to be completely washable, but not plastic.
Have 180 moveable parts...all replaceable.
Run on black coffee and leftovers.
Have a lap that disappears when she stands up.
A kiss that can cure anything from a broken leg to a disappointed love affair.
And six pairs of hands."
The angel shook her head slowly and said. "Six pairs of hands... no way."
"It's not the hands that are causing me problems," God remarked,
"it's the three pairs of eyes that mothers have to have."
"That's on the standard model?" asked the angel.
God nodded.
"One pair that sees through closed doors when she asks, 'What are you kids doing in there?' when she already knows.
Another here in the back of her head that sees what she shouldn't but what she has to know,
and of course the ones here in front that can look at a child when he goofs up and say.
'I understand and I love you' without so much as uttering a word."
"God," said the angel touching his sleeve gently,
"Get some rest tomorrow..."
"I can't," said God,
"I'm so close to creating something so close to myself.
Already I have one who heals herself when she is sick...can feed a family of six on one pound of hamburger...and can get a nine year old to stand under a shower."
The angel circled the model of a mother very slowly. "It's too soft," she sighed.
"But tough!" said God excitedly. "You can imagine what this mother can do or endure."
"Can it think?"
"Not only can it think, but it can reason and compromise," said the Creator.
Finally, the angel bent over and ran her finger across the cheek.
"There's a leak," she pronounced.
"I told You that You were trying to put too much into this model."
"It's not a leak," said the Lord, "It's a tear."
"What's it for?"
"It's for joy, sadness, disappointment, pain, loneliness, and pride."
"You are a genius, " said the angel.
Somberly, God said, "I didn't put it there."
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Erma Louise Bombeck,
born Erma Fiste, was an American humorist who achieved great popularity for a newspaper column that depicted suburban home life humorously, in the second half of the 20th century.
For 31 years since 1965, Erma Bombeck published 4,000 newspaper articles.
Already in the 1970s, her witty columns were read, twice weekly, by thirty million readers of 900 newspapers of USA and Canada.
Besides, the majority of her 15 books became instant best sellers.
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