This year being my first in my lifetime WITHOUT my Mom due to her passing away last summer got me to reflecting a little deeper on Mother's Day. A lot of these holidays in our lifetime we might think are just plugs for Hallmark, or the flower stores or candy products. But if we live our lives properly we don't dwell too long in the past or wish away where we are right now for the future but instead, live in the
MOMent.
A MOMent In Time With Our Moms Lasts A Lifetime.
Acknowledging our Moms as special should be every day but I do think it is grand that we ESPECIALLY stop and pause for them annually and tell them how great they are in our lives. Sacrificing their bodies to carry us for nine months, enduring childbirth for us, and getting us going in our lives, when you step back and think about that, you can't really have anyone more important to you living and breathing today than the woman who bore you and got you started in this world.
It is sad of course when our natural Moms are no longer with us but with those MOMents that we can reflect upon we can bring back all that unconditional love they had for us, their being the one person in our lives early on who ALWAYS thought the best of us. Moms do pass on of course with the moving on of time but there are always other Moms. Mother in laws, wives, step Moms, friends that are Moms, brothers and cousins that have Moms in their families, grandMoms, aunts, sisters that are Moms, you can go down the list.
Honor all the Moms in your life this Mother's Day, and tell them how glad you are to have them around.
A very dear woman I know sent along to me this verse honoring mothers entitled "When God Created Mothers" and I think it was attributed to another great Mom out there, Erma Bombeck:
When the good Lord was creating mothers, He was into His sixth day of "overtime" when the angel appeared and said, "You're doing a lot of fiddling around on this one."
And the Lord said, "Have you read the specs on this order? --
She has to be completely washable, but not plastic; Have 180 moveable parts . . . all replaceable; Run on black coffee and leftovers; Have a lap that disappears when she stands up; A kiss that can cure anything from a broken leg to a disappointed love affair; And six pairs of hands...
The angel shook her head slowly and said, "Six pairs of hands . . . no way."
"It's not the hands that are causing me problems," said the Lord. "It's the three pairs of eyes that mothers have to have."
"That's on the standard model?" asked the angel.
The Lord nodded.
"One pair that sees through closed doors when she asks, 'What are you kids doing in there?' when she already knows. Another here in the back of her head that sees what she shouldn't but what she has to know, and of course the ones here in front that can look at a child when he goofs up and say, 'I understand and I love you' without so much as uttering a word."
"Lord," said the angel, touching His sleeve gently, "Come to bed. Tomorrow . . ."
"I can't," said the Lord, "I'm so close to creating something so close to myself. Already I have one who heals herself when she is sick . . . can feed a family of six on one pound of hamburger . . . and can get a nine year-old to stand under a shower."
The angel circled the model of a mother very slowly. "It's too soft," she sighed.
"But tough!" said The Lord excitedly. "You cannot imagine what this mother can do or endure."
The angel asked, "Can it think?"
"Not only think, but it can reason and compromise," said The Creator.
Finally, the angel bent over and ran her finger across the cheek. "There's a leak," she pronounced. "I told you you're trying to put too much into this model."
"It's not a leak," said the Lord, "It's a tear."
"What's it for?" asked the angel.
"It's for joy, sadness, disappointment, pain, loneliness and pride," The Lord replied.
"You are a genius," said the angel.
The Lord looked somber.
"I didn't put it there," He said.
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