Remove These 4 Things From Your Bedroom Before It's Too Late (My Mexican Mother Never Allowed One)
Bertha's Bible Talk
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My mother's bedroom had almost nothing in it. A bed. A small table with a glass of water. A wooden chair against the wall. One window.
You might think that was because the family was poor. It was on purpose. For forty years she stopped things at that door. Your father's radio, in his hand, on his way to bed. The envelope with the bills. An argument that started at supper and tried to follow them down the hall. She had one sentence for all of it: "Ahí se duerme." In there, we sleep.
This is not a video about mirrors. Nothing in your room is cursed, and no object is the reason your prayers feel slow. These are four habits, and a habit is something a tired woman can carry out of a room with her own two hands.
"When you are on your beds, search your hearts and be silent." (Psalm 4:4)
In this episode of The Mexican Mother's Bible, Bertha walks through the four things her mother turned away at the bedroom door, where each one is in the Book, and a free way to move it out tonight:
• The thing that talks. The radio, the television, the telephone on the pillow. The three o'clock hour used to belong to the Lord. (Psalm 16:7; Psalm 119:148)
• Tomorrow. The bills, the laptop, the list, the doctor's letter you have read eleven times. "He grants sleep to those he loves." (Psalm 127:2; Ecclesiastes 5:12; 1 Peter 5:7)
• The fight. "En la recámara no se pelea." Including the one you have at two in the morning with somebody who is not there. (Proverbs 17:14; Psalm 4:4)
• The thing you kept from what you were told to leave. Bertha tells it on herself: the shoe box under her side of the bed. (Luke 17:32; Philippians 3:13-14; Hebrews 12:15)
And she holds back two things for the end. First, what her mother meant by "too late," which Bertha found out. And then the one thing her mother DID keep in that room, which she did not understand until she was fifty. Stay to the finish.
"When you lie down, you will not be afraid; when you lie down, your sleep will be sweet." (Proverbs 3:24)
💛 A gentle word: this is not about grief. Your husband's photograph stays. His watch on the dresser stays. The sweater that still smells like him stays. Those are love, and love is allowed to sleep in that room. And these are not payments. God does not hear the woman with the empty nightstand better than the woman with the television on. If you fall asleep to a preacher on the radio and it brings you peace, God bless your radio (Romans 14).
I am not a pastor. I have no letters after my name and no pulpit to stand behind. I am a mother with a worn Bible, passing down what was passed down to me. Everything here, go and check for yourself. Do not take my word for it. Take His.
If you are carrying one thing out of that room tonight, please LIKE and SUBSCRIBE so this reaches a woman who is awake at three in the morning. God bless you, mija.
📖 Tell me in the comments: what is the one thing YOUR mother or grandmother never allowed in the bedroom? I want to know if they all had the same rules. And which of the four are you carrying out tonight? You do not have to say what is in the box. Tell me your county too. I read every one.
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Remove These 4 Things From Your Bedroom Before It's Too Late (My Mexican Mother Never Allowed One)
Bertha's Bible Talk
9,438 views
My mother's bedroom had almost nothing in it. A bed. A small table with a glass of water. A wooden chair against the wall. One window.
You might think that was because the family was poor. It was on purpose. For forty years she stopped things at that door. Your father's radio, in his hand, on his way to bed. The envelope with the bills. An argument that started at supper and tried to follow them down the hall. She had one sentence for all of it: "Ahí se duerme." In there, we sleep.
This is not a video about mirrors. Nothing in your room is cursed, and no object is the reason your prayers feel slow. These are four habits, and a habit is something a tired woman can carry out of a room with her own two hands.
"When you are on your beds, search your hearts and be silent." (Psalm 4:4)
In this episode of The Mexican Mother's Bible, Bertha walks through the four things her mother turned away at the bedroom door, where each one is in the Book, and a free way to move it out tonight:
• The thing that talks. The radio, the television, the telephone on the pillow. The three o'clock hour used to belong to the Lord. (Psalm 16:7; Psalm 119:148)
• Tomorrow. The bills, the laptop, the list, the doctor's letter you have read eleven times. "He grants sleep to those he loves." (Psalm 127:2; Ecclesiastes 5:12; 1 Peter 5:7)
• The fight. "En la recámara no se pelea." Including the one you have at two in the morning with somebody who is not there. (Proverbs 17:14; Psalm 4:4)
• The thing you kept from what you were told to leave. Bertha tells it on herself: the shoe box under her side of the bed. (Luke 17:32; Philippians 3:13-14; Hebrews 12:15)
And she holds back two things for the end. First, what her mother meant by "too late," which Bertha found out. And then the one thing her mother DID keep in that room, which she did not understand until she was fifty. Stay to the finish.
"When you lie down, you will not be afraid; when you lie down, your sleep will be sweet." (Proverbs 3:24)
💛 A gentle word: this is not about grief. Your husband's photograph stays. His watch on the dresser stays. The sweater that still smells like him stays. Those are love, and love is allowed to sleep in that room. And these are not payments. God does not hear the woman with the empty nightstand better than the woman with the television on. If you fall asleep to a preacher on the radio and it brings you peace, God bless your radio (Romans 14).
I am not a pastor. I have no letters after my name and no pulpit to stand behind. I am a mother with a worn Bible, passing down what was passed down to me. Everything here, go and check for yourself. Do not take my word for it. Take His.
If you are carrying one thing out of that room tonight, please LIKE and SUBSCRIBE so this reaches a woman who is awake at three in the morning. God bless you, mija.
📖 Tell me in the comments: what is the one thing YOUR mother or grandmother never allowed in the bedroom? I want to know if they all had the same rules. And which of the four are you carrying out tonight? You do not have to say what is in the box. Tell me your county too. I read every one.