Vintaged Values...Lessons from Mom (Giving)
I am going to have to limit my 84 year old Mom's television time. She loves Wendy Williams, Steve Harvey and the Mearl Purvis Show (her name for the news show, not mine).
She called me excited because Alicia Keys was on and didn't want me to miss her: Alicia Keys, not Nancy Wilson.
Then, one day when I took her to the doctor and her general physician suggested that he needed to remove her moles around her neck because they have multiplied. She asked him, "Are you a Dermatologist? I thought you were a General Medical Physician."
Her doctor confirmed his area was general medical. Then, she responded, "Well, you know I love you Dr. Hardy, but I am going to need you to stay in your lane". Dr. Hardy and I bought laughed so hard. I told him, I am going to have to limit her television time and shows because she is getting fresh for me.
Then, this morning she said Mearl Purvis is really looking good on television and "there's a glow" about her. "Do you watch The Mearl Purvis Show? LOL
But here is the lesson I really wanted to share with you based on our conversation.
Mama: What are you doing tonight?
Me: Hanging out with the girls celebrating Gale's birthday at a Steak House.
Mama: Oh, I love how you young women (Gale is 39 and I am 60) will enjoy life with each other and not
wait for a gentleman to take you to dinner. Get my greeting card box and my purse. I am going to
help you buy Gale's Stake. (She puts $5.00 in the card.)
My Mother has no sense of how much a dinner costs at Ruth Chris Steak House. ( LOL LMBO) But, I love the fact that she keeps "Vintaged Values" in style. She never gives a greeting card without putting a little something in it.
I can remember her sending get-well cards to the church's sick and shut-in list religiously and to kids in college away from home. She believes that "little becomes much in the Master's Hands". She believes that if she does her part and others did their part, the small gifts would be enough to pay for medicine, gas, meal or whatever is needed at a time of need.
All these years, and I realize that it's the same concept that Gale and I use when we ask friends to give $10 over the cost of a movie ticket. That $10 from many raised over $10,000 to fee the hungry, provide shelter for those fleeing from domestic violence, treatment for alcohol and drug dependency and a financial literacy program.
But I love how my Mom incorporates the new and treasure her Vintaged Values. So, every now and then, I'll take a break from politics and remind us of Vintaged Values.
