{"id":11274,"date":"2019-10-31T05:30:56","date_gmt":"2019-10-31T10:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/?p=11274"},"modified":"2019-10-31T05:36:53","modified_gmt":"2019-10-31T10:36:53","slug":"a-treat-for-97-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/?p=11274","title":{"rendered":"A Treat for 97 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This morning, I\u2019ll be heading to Tulsa to celebrate Mom and her 97th Birthday! It\u2019s truly a day of celebrating \u2013 not just a mother-in-law, but a dear friend, mentor, and mother. God brought this precious treat to us on October 31st, 1922. I’m sure He had a hand in her being named \u201cLydia” which means \u201cworshipper of God\u201c! And true to her name, she has been a true worshipper of God. You’ll find her at any given time with her Bible in hand — reading and praying for her family and friends. Many times you\u2019ll find her on the phone encouraging someone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mom means the world to me. Were it not for her, I wouldn’t have been blessed with the love and joy of having her son as my beloved husband and our children and grandchildren. She has been a true gift to all who know her, leaving her mark on so many lives, including mine. Though she’s my mother-in-law, it has always been so natural to call her “Mom”. She always treated me like a daughter. She loved me when I was 12-years-old and was an accomplice with my mom in ensuring their two kiddos would marry AND stay married! Their strategies (and many prayers) worked well! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\nI know many funny, and often “catty” remarks said about “mother-in-laws”. That’s too bad, because if it weren’t for our in-laws we would never have been blessed with our sweethearts. We should love, respect, appreciate, and honor them. And, isn’t that the kind of “in-law” we want to be for our children’s and grandchildren’s spouses?\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I’m putting Mom out there today — front and center — for you to see what a mother-in-law should look like. Not the exterior, though she is and always has been a beautiful, stately woman, but she did the best of what God called her to do. She walked His walk AND talked His talk. She has been a Proverbs 31 woman — the one that her children ALL rise up and call her blessed. She sure makes me want to up my game!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mom, I celebrate the gift of you in my life and to so many others who have been impacted by your grace and beauty for so many years! I love you so much. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mom, I celebrate the gift of you into my life and to so many others who have been impacted by your grace, dignity, and beauty for so many years! I love you so much\u2026\u2026Donna<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This morning, I\u2019ll be heading to Tulsa to celebrate Mom and her 97th Birthday! It\u2019s truly a day of celebrating \u2013 not just a mother-in-law, but a dear friend, mentor, and mother. God brought this precious treat to us on October 31st, 1922. I’m sure He had a hand in her being named \u201cLydia” which…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11282,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15355,15354,1],"tags":[2430,2294,156,1210,15353,1721,1085,3141,323,1601,1063,1090,2883,1064,4550,1102,1068,1071],"class_list":["post-11274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-october-31","category-treat","category-uncategorized","tag-appreciate","tag-beauty","tag-birthday","tag-blog","tag-children-rise-and-call-her-blessed","tag-encourager","tag-friend","tag-gift","tag-grace","tag-honor","tag-lydia","tag-mentor","tag-mother","tag-mother-in-law","tag-proverbs-31-woman","tag-respect","tag-treat","tag-worshipper-of-god"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11274"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11284,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11274\/revisions\/11284"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}