LIKE MOTHER, LIKE DAUGHTER!

The other day my husband was at the bank and got talking to the teller (he loves to talk to people). The lady asked what he did and he replied that we speak and write about strengthening families. She proceeded to tell him a little story.

Her daughter was putting a ham in the oven, but before she did, she cut a piece of both ends off the ham. A friend who was watching her asked, "Why do you do that?"

"Because my mother did it," she replied. She thought she would call her mother (the lady speaking to Colin) and ask why she did it.

"Because my mother did it!" her mother replied. The grandmother was still alive so the daughter called her grandmother and asked her why she cut a piece of the ham off at both ends.

"So it could fit in the pan," she replied! This unnecessary tradition was passing down the generations from one mother to the next! Such is the influence of motherhood. Ezekiel 16:44 says, "As is the mother, so is her daughter."

Dear mother, think how powerfully we can influence our daughters, practically and spiritually. They will take things into their future lives that we haven't sat down to teach them, but just by watching us day after day.

Love from Nancy