Greetings for Mothers who know how to love their children.

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“A good beginning is half done.”

 

There is a school whose motto is “The end depends from the beginning.” The writer of proverbs says: “Start children off on the way they should go, and even when they are old they will not turn from it.” Proverbs 22:6.

 

My father was a workaholic and died before I was born. God in his sovereign wisdom provided my grandparents as already “well trained babysitters” to raise me under their close care and supervision.

 

Though I loved sleeping my grandma used to wake me up at four in the morning when it was still dark to go to the city bakery to buy fresh bread to sell in our country's convenience store.

 

Sometimes I felt like it took almost one mile walking with grandma to fully wake up. The way back from the bakery was so much happier. As I listened to grandma's life stories, I would eat fresh and delicious warm bread because it seems as if I was always hungry early in the morning.

 

At the crack of dawn people would flood to our store to buy bread for breakfast.

I used to wonder if grandma ever made any profit at the rate of my bread eating habits. Later I realized that it was not I who worked and helped grandma but grandma work for me and loved me as no one ever so loved me.

 

While I was racketeering and profiteering from grandma’s business, she was teaching me to live for others rather than for myself. As a young father I did not have any training in child rearing other than loving my kids as my grandma loved me.

 

Some friends ask me how I did to raise such great kids?

As much as I would like to pat myself on the back, in all honesty I draw a blank in my mind and I can only think of grandma, of my Ruthie, and lastly of my possessive and furious love for my children.

 

My children are good parents to my grandchildren. I was not a lousy father but I loved and lived for my children.

 

When I observe my children, I begin to discover new dimensions of grace that helps me to understand that it is not by good works that we are saved but by grace alone. Thank you Father in Heaven for so loving me in Jesus. Thank you Father for making my children what they are. Thank you grandma for loving me and teaching me to live for others. Thank you grandma for teaching me to talk by repeating after you “The Lord’s Prayer.”

 

“The end still depends from the beginning.”

“A good beginning is still half done.”

“Start up a child in a way he should go so that even when he grows old he will not depart from it.”

 

I Love you Jesus. For me there is no one but Jesus, no one but Jesus.

 

This is a 75 years old toddler of Jesus on duty testifying about the grace of God in Jesus.

 

Gerry Gutierrez.