{"id":3963,"date":"2026-05-10T08:20:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T13:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/?p=3963"},"modified":"2026-05-10T08:20:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T13:20:17","slug":"things-mothers-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/2026\/05\/things-mothers-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Things Mothers Say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was Mother\u2019s Day. Mothers have things they say to their children that go beyond their family. \u00a0Some are even universal and eternal. \u00a0For instance, regardless of my complaint, my own mother would always tell me, \u201cIt will be better tomorrow.\u201d When I have shared that, others have agreed that their mother said the same or a similar thing. \u00a0In honor and in memory of mothers, here are a few things most mothers said at some point in the life of their children.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Because I said so, that\u2019s why.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>I\u2019m not asking you, I\u2019m telling you.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Were you born in a barn?\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Don\u2019t cry over spilt milk.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>One day you will thank me.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>You got that from your father,\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Money doesn\u2019t grow on trees,<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Then there is the reason mother\u2019s gave middle names to their kids. \u00a0I knew when I heard my middle name used, I needed to listen closely. \u00a0I was either in trouble, or there was something important that i needed to know. \u00a0And we loved every minute of it. \u201cHer children rise up and call her blessed\u201d (Proverbs 31:28). \u00a0Happy and Blessed Belated Mother\u2019s Day.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was Mother\u2019s Day. Mothers have things they say to their children that go beyond their family. \u00a0Some are even universal and eternal. \u00a0For instance, regardless of my complaint, my own mother would always tell me, \u201cIt will be better tomorrow.\u201d When I have shared that, others have agreed that their mother said the same&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monday-morning-manna"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3964,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3963\/revisions\/3964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}