For You on Mother's Day

This is part of an email message that my mom sent to me. I wanted to share it with everyone. Hey! If you got the same story/poem thingy, let me know! If you got another you think I'd like, put it in the comments. (please!) I love the sappy messages we as mothers get for the holidays. I have always given them to my grandmas and my mom. Now I love to receive them. But this one was a little different. This one hit home exactly where it needed to. Thank you to my mother. She is a wonderful lady. I can tell that the Lord directed her to send this particular e-card to me.
A woman once fretted over the usefulness of her life. She feared she was wasting her potential being a devoted wife and mother. She wondered if the time and energy she invested in her husband and children would make a difference.
At times she got discouraged because so much of what she did seemed to go unnoticed and unappreciated. "Is it worth it?" she often wondered. "Is there something better that I could be doing with my time?"
It was during these moments of questioning that she heard the still, small voice of her heavenly Father speak to her heart.
"You are a wife and mother because that is what I have called you to be. Much of what you do is hidden from the public eye.
But I notice.
Most of what you give is done without remuneration.
But I am your reward.
Your husband cannot be the man I have called him to be without your support. Your influence upon him is greater than you think and more powerful than you will ever know.
I bless him through your service and honor him through your love.
Your children are precious to Me. Even more precious than they are to you. I have entrusted them to your care to raise for Me. What you invest in them is an offering to Me.
You may never be in the public spotlight, but your obedience shines asd a bright light before Me. Continue On.
Remember you are my servant. Do all to please Me." ~Roy Lessin
23"Whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men; 24knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ." Colossians 3:23, 24 KJV. Here is that verse in NIV: 23"Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men, 24since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving."