Priscilla Shirer: Building a Legacy in Motherhood | TBN

Priscilla Shirer shares a special Mother’s Day message about building a legacy in motherhood on TBN’s Mother’s Day Special.

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I remember feeling like my mom was

superhuman I mean when I was little to

me she was an actual literal superhero I

remember this one time that my brother

Anthony and I we were in the house

probably with our siblings as well but I

remembered my mom had turned on the

stove right before walking into the

garage which at the time that is where

our washer and dryer was so she turned

the stove on and got dinner going then

she just walked out and put a load of

laundry in but Anthony locked the door

behind her and I remember hearing her

from the other side of the door trying

to explain how to unlock the door but we

couldn’t figure it out then I remember

walking around to the window and looking

out of the window as I watched my mom

run in what looked like to me superhuman

strength leap over the fence line to run

to the neighbor’s house to call 911 to

get somebody to come unlock the door as

smoke began to come out of the windows

and fill the house I will never forget

that picture she looked super human to

me or that one time cuz you know all

four of us were always getting in

trouble that one time when we were

running errands with our mom and we were

in the car and she pulled up to a

bookstore and went inside the bookstore

the whole front of the bookstore was all

windows so she could see us and we could

see her as she stood right there at the

desk to buy what she was buying but one

of us kids decided that we would shift

the gears on the car and she saw the car

start slowly rolling backwards I watched

my mom through that windshield burst out

of that store through the front door and

run towards the car reach inside the

driver’s side and while the car was

moving she’s running along to put the

car back in park I’m telling you my mom

was a superhero but now in hindsight now

that I’m a little bit older probably

have a little bit more perspective and

have children of my own I realized that

the things that made my mom superhuman

were really these internal

characteristics things you can’t really

put a finger on and you don’t notice

them when you’re younger but they come

alive to you the older and older you get

and now I also realize that it’s not

because she was superhuman it was

because she had the power of the Holy

Spirit of God living on the inside of

her you know

I’ve become more and more aware of and

appreciative of those values not just

the older that I’ve gotten but

particularly in this past year you see

last year this time my mom was diagnosed

with a cancer that the doctors told us

up front they didn’t think there was

anything they could do to help it to be

cured or resolved and even though many

of them still prayed with us for a

miracle they told us medically they

couldn’t do anything to help her and we

had so many people around the world

throughout the past nine months that

were praying fervently that God would do

something to eradicate the cancer and to

bring her back to full health and in the

last three months of her life as we sort

of literally moved in to care for her

and to care for my dad we began to

notice there and November in December of

2019 that her health was rapidly

declining we celebrated with her we

celebrated her 70th birthday on December

1st that she wanted so much to get to we

celebrated her robustly and fully her

grandkids surrounding her reading her

letters that each and every one of her

grandkids and her two

great-grandchildren were able to read to

her to celebrate her 70th birthday we

even made it to Christmas even though by

then she could barely communicate with

us she was still there it was during

those last weeks of her life that I saw

those intangible qualities that I want

so much for myself and that I appreciate

her leaving that kind of a legacy for me

it’s the intangible stuff like a peace

that passes all understanding

anybody that can still have joy that can

still have a smile on their face that

has invested so well in family that all

her family wants to do is surround her

day and night to be near her her

grandchildren piled up on her bed what a

heritage what a legacy on December 30th

she went home to be with the Lord she

went to heaven and over that month

before she took her last breath

I saw her slowly but surely loosening

her grip on earth and looking forward to

heaven

in the end she’s even taught me how to

die you know it reminds me of one of her

favorite passages Joshua chapter 4 in

Joshua chapter 4 the children of Israel

are headed towards the promised land

they’ve just crossed over the Jordan

River but they turn around and they put

stones of remembrance in place so that

when future generations would ask what

do these stones mean they could be

reminded about the faithfulness of God

I’m so grateful because that’s what my

mom did for me she’s left stones of

remembrance and my kids are asking about

integrity and consistency and character

and faithfulness and all those

intangible things and when they ask me

about those stones I can point to a

woman who left them behind for us to see

and pattern our lives according to I

want to encourage you to do the same

remember that those intangible qualities

those daily decisions to live well they

matter

happy Mother’s Day