Calling on all of you Mom's..

I saved this a few years back. It was a poem my Mom received from my Grandma years back and she has retained it in her keepsake box. How many of us can relate? Thanks to my Mom for sharing it with me.

A Mother's Prayer

Help me be a better worrier, God. I know it’s human to worry, it’s natural, it’s a by-product of caring and it can be useful, too. If I didn’t worry about my husband’s health, he might never go to the doctor. If I didn’t worry about our son’s grades, he’d probably never do enough work to pass. And if I didn’t worry about how the house looks, it would never get out of the mess it’s so often in.

Thank you for these worries, God, and the will to do something about them. But guard me against wasteful worrying. Help me avoid futile mental wrestlings with things that can’t be helped – mistakes of the past, irreversible decisions, afflictions over which we are powerless. No, no, let me waste no worries on these. If I must worry, let it be for some good reason – my own reactions, how I will cope with what is.

Don’t let me worry at night, Lord, when my body and mind need rest. Help me to herd all my worries into the daylight hours and to turn them over to you before I go to bed. Let me do this in complete trust, knowing I’ll be claimed by sleep – that precious sleep you gave us, not to be squandered in fruitless thought, but to replenish and strengthen us for all we must face by day.

Remind me, Lord, to follow my worries with action. No worry is worth the trouble if it doesn’t spur me on to do something about the problem – to tackle it, challenge it, change it, or forget it. Help me to write that letter, make that phone call, have that confrontation, develop a plan to resolve whatever is troubling me.

Keep me from the habit of constant worry. I realize that too much worry bespeaks a lack of faith, but I think you gave us worry as a safeguard, God, - a form of mental preparation of coming to grips with things. When I must worry, then help me put my worries to work, use them to some good purpose. Please make me a better worrier, God.

There you have it!

I read this on my friend Kindra's blog and laughed my head off. She too stole it from a friend. Just can't help but pass the laughter along!

If you are 30, or older, you might think this is hilarious!

When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears with their tedious diatribes about how hard things were. When they were growing up; what with walking twenty-five miles to school every morning.... Uphill... Barefoot... BOTH ways yadda, yadda, yadda

And I remember promising myself that when I grew up, there was no way in heck I was going to lay a bunch of crap like that on my kids about how hard I had it and how easy they've got it!

But now that I'm over the ripe old age of thirty, I can't help but look around and notice the youth of today. You've got it so easy! I mean, compared to my childhood, you live in a stinkin’ Utopia! And I hate to say it, but you kids today, you don't know how good you've got it!

I mean, when I was a kid we didn't have the Internet. If we wanted to know something, we had to go to the dang library and look it up ourselves, in the card catalog!!

There was no email!! We had to actually write somebody a letter - with a pen! Then you had to walk all the way across the street and put it in the mailbox, and it would take like a week to get there! Stamps were 10 cents!

Child Protective Services didn't care if our parents beat us. As a matter of fact, the parents of all my friends also had permission to kick our a**! Nowhere was safe!

There were no MP3's or Napsters or iTunes! If you wanted to steal music, you had to hitchhike to the record store and shoplift it yourself!

Or you had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio, and the DJ would usually talk over the beginning and mess it all up! There were no CD players! We had tape decks in our car. We'd play our favorite tape and "eject" it when finished, and then the tape would come undone rendering it useless. Cause, hey, that's how we rolled, Baby! Dig?

We didn't have fancy crap like Call Waiting! If you were on the phone and somebody else called, they got a busy signal, that's it!

There weren't any cell phones either. If you left the house, you just didn't make a call or receive one. You actually had to be out of touch with your "friends". OH MY WORD !!! Think of the horror... not being in touch with someone 24/7!!! And then there's TEXTING. Yeah, right. Please! You kids have no idea how annoying you are.

And we didn't have fancy Caller ID either! When the phone rang, you had no idea who it was! It could be your school, your parents, your boss, your bookie, the collection agent... you just didn't know!!! You had to pick it up and take your chances, mister!

We didn't have any fancy PlayStation or Xbox video games with high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600! With games like 'Space Invaders' and 'Asteroids'. Your screen guy was a little square! You actually had to use your imagination!!! And there were no multiple levels or screens, it was just one screen... Forever! And you could never win. The game just kept getting harder and harder and faster and faster until you died! Just like LIFE !

You had to use a little book called a TV Guide to find out what was on! You were screwed when it came to channel surfing! You had to get off your tush and walk over to the TV to change the channel!!! NO REMOTES!!! Oh, no, what's the world coming to?!?!

There was no Cartoon Network either! You could only get cartoons on Saturday Morning. Do you hear what I'm saying? We had to wait ALL WEEK for cartoons, you spoiled little rat-finks!
And our parents told us to stay outside and play... all day long. Oh, no… no electronics to soothe and comfort. And if you came back inside... you were doing chores!
And car seats - oh, please! Mom threw you in the back seat and you hung on. If you were luckily, you got the "safety arm" across the chest at the last moment if she had to stop suddenly, and if your head hit the dashboard, well that was your fault for calling "shot gun" in the first place!
See! That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids today have got it too easy. You're spoiled rotten! You guys wouldn't have lasted five minutes back in 1980 or any time before!