No truthful
man or woman can negate the magnitude of a mother’s place here on earth and her
place in the lives of her children. Mothers
are some of the most important individuals that have ever existed. Everyone, everywhere, needs to realize this
as a Divine reality. There is a very
old, but altogether wise and intensely colorful, Jewish Proverb that says this
about mothers, ”God could not be everywhere and therefore He made mothers.”
When we are
young our mothers are like a god. We see
them as all-knowing, helpful, powerful and always present. Mothers are the women that daily provide us
with food, drink and protection. We
don’t always know what to say to our Mothers, to express to them all the
gratitude we have for them yet certain great sons and daughters have done this charge
tastefully and marvelously.
Countless intellectuals
have determined that you cannot really understand all things “Mother.” John
Wesley, the founder of the Methodist movement, said this about his mother
Susanna Wesley, stating that she was so instrumental in his life that she
inevitably affected the movement he started and its direction. All Americans know that Abraham Lincoln led
this nation through perhaps its worst and darkest time of greatest crisis; but
who was it that made Abraham Lincoln the man that he was? He said it was his mother. "All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe
to my angel Mother.” "I remember my
mother's prayers and they have always followed me, they have clung to me all my
life," Abraham Lincoln.
I would
suggest to my readers that there is not a person sitting here that in one,
five, ten, a thousand different ways has not been forever influenced by his or
her mother. I determinedly suppose that
you cannot understand who a person is and what motivates them until you
understand their past. And you cannot
understand a person's past without understanding the source that co-created
that person along with God, that being their parents, especially their mothers.
Consider
these two statements:
"An
ounce of Mother is worth a ton of priest."
Spanish proverb
"No
man is poor who has had a godly mother."
Abraham Lincoln.
To this, I
add a few other simple but personal and heartfelt sentiments…
A Mother is
like a million drops of dew that have reached out in the early morning hours to
greet her children,
A Mother is
a special person that knows a lot about thousands of subjects and still humbles
herself so as to be the healer of a cold, scrapped knee or the encourager of a
tired and cranky little child.
A Mother is
like a four-leaf clover, green and bright, royal and purple, white and pure and
fragrant like no other could ever be.
A Mother is
as delicate as a field full of butterflies on dandelions and as hard as a rock
when it comes to protecting her child from harm.
A Mother is
unique and special and knows just what to do when it comes to you. Trust her and follow her instructions and God
will bless you, now and forever.
